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Archive for November 7th, 2009

Sentences I’m thinking about

Posted: Saturday, November 7th, 2009 @ 7:12 pm in significant material, Class | No Comments »

How would you describe the grammar of the following sentences?
A woman in a most peculiar hat sat contemplating.
He was erasing the board while she remarked with exaggerated irony that he should stop polishing the wall.
“Zoey ate the Thanksgiving Turkey,” shouted Janey with zany glee.
How had Janey done in the volleyball tournament was the question of […]