Well I see it as an A for effort. But in in all fairness if you lost the game you shouldn't really be a sore loser because of it. In football games the people keeping score don't give the points the other team that lost because "they tried". I was on the cheerleading team and the other girls won nationals but I thought it was unfair because we all really tried our hardest and the thought we should get extra points. But I know that's totally ridiculous now.
Tone, as you may know, is the general attitude an author takes in the construction of a story, essay, poem, etc. that can be determined by the author's choice of words. When we look at the essay, "Murmurs," by K.C. Cole, we see slang/informality in the author's word choice in the following sentence from the essay: "Because there's scientific gold in them there sinusoidal
hills." Additionally, there are many analogies and similes the author uses in the explanation of concepts such as when the author writes "Like children going after cookies the patterns of sloshing particles left their sticky fingerprints all over the sky." As such, one way to describe the author's tone would be informal (almost playful/humorous) yet informative.
Proper noun:
My dog's name is <u>Zoom</u>.
<em>'Zoom' is a proper noun, because it is a name.</em>
Helping verb:
My shoe <u>has</u> a tag on it.
<em>'Has' is a</em><em> </em><em>helping</em><em> </em><em>verb</em><em>.</em><em> There are large lists online of all the helping verbs.</em>
Action verb:
I <u>jump</u> over the cracks in the sidewalk as I walk.
<em>'</em><em>Jump</em><em>'</em><em> </em><em>is</em><em> </em><em>an</em><em> </em><em>action</em><em> </em><em>verb</em><em>.</em><em> </em><em>Action</em><em> </em><em>verbs</em><em> </em><em>show</em><em> </em><em>an</em><em> </em><em>action</em><em> </em><em>being</em><em> </em><em>done</em><em>,</em><em> </em><em>ex</em><em>.</em><em> </em><em>run</em><em>,</em><em> </em><em>leap</em><em>,</em><em> </em><em>sing</em><em>,</em><em> </em><em>dance</em><em>,</em><em> </em><em>etc</em><em>.</em>
3 sentences with all three:
Proper noun bold.
Helping verb underlined.
Action verb italicized.
- My friend, Anna, <u>w</u><u>i</u><u>l</u><u>l</u> <em>dance</em> at the recital.
- The Golden Retriever <u>can</u> <em>speak</em>.
- Ella <u>might</u> <em>pick up</em> the library books today.
