Abstract
empty space on the Each of you please write a sentence loaded with as many fake verbs as you can pac in. Make sure you also use a true verb so you have a complete sentence. They start writing-creatively adding verbal after verbal-as other students inspect, inquire, and settle into their seats. Meanwhile, the bell buzzes to start class. Hey, Mrs. Yoder, what is that weird stuff you wrote on the side chalk board? Jameel asks. doesn't look like English! 'Manching my skwilted fresnap all day, the grasting tunkle is bronkling to murple a swazzling guston.' That's Nonsense English, Jameel. I made it up this morning. It doesn't make sense, but I bet you can find five fake verbs in that nonsense. And I bet you can tell me whether it's a complete sentence or not. Jameel and the others rise to the challenge and readily identify manching, skwilted, grasting, to murple, and swazzling as fake verbs (verbals). They decide that the sentence is complete because bronkling, with its subject and auxiliary verb, is a true verb. By this time Deidra and Marcus are ready to display their sentences. Deidra gets the prize for using nine fake verbs while still making reasonable sense. Other students check to make sure each sentence has a true verb and has commas to set off fake verb
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callSimilar Papers
Disclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
