Now complete the following. a. Do as directed. .
Dinesh and Prabhu wanted to meet Varsha at the bus stop. They went to the bus stop. (combine into a compound sentence) . Harsha reached the railway station.
He saw his friends waiting for him. (combine into a complex sentence) . The train was late. She reached on time.
(combine using ‘in spite of’) . Hussain and Victor were too young to work in the industry. (change into a compound sentence) . On seeing the snake, the dog barked (rewrite as a complex sentence) .
Ajay and Tijo went to the canal. They wanted to catch some fish. (combine into a simple sentence) . He tried his best, but he did not succeed.
(rewrite as a complex sentence) . You have to hurry or you will miss the bus. (rewrite as simple and complex sentence) . He is a magician from Mumbai and has performed all over the world.
(rewrite as a complex sentence) . Though the battle has been, won the war isn’t over yet. (rewrite into compound sentence) b. Here is one long sentence.
Split them into smaller sentences. Like all living things, human beings also need food in order to live as every part of the body must get a steady supply of food so that it can work properly, but first the food eaten has to be broken down through a process called digestion so that it can dissolve in the blood and carried to all parts of the body. Narrative Writing Our thoughts and ideas can be expressed in an interesting manner.They can be presented as a narration. In this section, we shall learn how to develop a proverb and a news headline into a story paragraph.
Every story has a beginning, a middle section and an ending. Here is the format for developing a story: Introduction / Beginning Describe the setting (Where & When). Introduce the characters (Who). Explain the situation.
Events / Middle Describe what happened. Use transition words that show time and order ( suddenly, as soon as, before, meanwhile). Solution / Ending Explain how the story ends. Describe what happens to the characters.
State how the problem ends / gets resolved. Add a reflection sentence or a closing sentence. An example: Expand the proverb ‘A bad workman always blames his tools’ into a story-paragraph. Notice the beginning, middle and end.
Begin with the meaning of the proverb. ‘A bad workman always blames his tools’ The meaning of this proverb is that our success does not depend on what kind of tools we have but how we use them. Here is a story to elucidate the meaning. Writing -A-Prose-The Accidental - - :