Exercise 17a

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. She carefully tills the soil. Keeping out bugs, aphids. And caterpillars requires a lot of work. When she is ready to plant the garden, her brother William helps her. William sometimes mixes up the seeds. When spring comes, the flowers blooms in odd places.

Exercise 17f
Cross out propositional phrases in red Subjects in green Verbs in yellow Corrected verbs in lite blue

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Done Several of the jugglers in town for the circus own parrots. When students write regularly, freewriting about a topic gets easier. That clever Queen of Hearts tricked Alice. The pizza from Sammys Restaurant always disappears in a matter of minutes. Films about a national disaster have become popular. In front of the building down the block a gigantic pillar of yellow metal is sticking out of the grass. 8. The hours before dawn make me most uneasy. 9. Writing for a class assignment usually needs editing. 10. The biggest problem for writers is that they dont write regularly.

Exercise 17i

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Done. Each of the students has seen an ancient skull of Cro-Magnon man. Ms. Rice makes the lectures so vivid that nobody gets bored. The anthropology class is also interesting because someone always asks an interesting question that leads to a good discussion. 5. Ms. Rice makes the whole class feel so comfortable that nobody is afraid to ask questions.

6. In addition, each of the two books for the course includes several fascinating articles about major debates between anthropologists. 7. Either of the two books has enough information to keep me reading for several years. 8. Neither textbook contains information that is commonly known. 9. Each of the chapters includes detailed examples of the subjects it covers. 10. Anybody who plans to take anthropology needs to enroll in Ms. Rices class.