Three sentences to describe this scene.
Finite verbs To write a complete sentence, you must have a finite verb. A finite verb can: • show tense – She works in London. She worked in London. • show changes in number and person – He works. They work. I am. You are. • Be constructed with an auxiliary - I am working.
Not all verbs are finite … • Non-finite verbs are used in these three ways: • Present participle: -ing words – walking, tiring, working • Past participle: -ed words – Walked, tired, worked • Infinitive: the root of any verb (no tense or person ending) an hout it – Walk, tire, work n – w ill not eir ow you w h s on t – then b se ver er verb se the no oth u. If you y, with tence n ar auxili ritten a se w have
Write a magazine article explaining where you come from.
Bleak House by Charles Dickens Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collierbrigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.
Annotate the text • • Identify the verbs What do you notice? Why does he do this? What does he gain? • Extend: examine punctuation
Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships ;
Your turn Working in pairs, “Write a magazine article explaining where you come from. ” Rules: • Use the pictures to structure your writing • Use juxtaposition • Use non-finite verbs • Use semicolons
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