(check your plastic grammar sheet if you forgot) Do Now: 1. What is a phrase? (check your plastic grammar sheet if you forgot) 2. Which of the following is a phrase? huddling under the mead benches for safety when they joined the struggle

Phrases A Phrase: a group of words that does not contain a subject and a verb into the mead hall under the murky water swimming to the bottom of the mere battered and bloodied by battle huddling under the mead benches Phrases can add DETAIL and VARIETY to your writing.

Adding Details and Sentence Variety to Your Writing Grant Wood’s American Gothic, 1930. Pitchforking Adding Details and Sentence Variety to Your Writing

Pitchforking Take one main clause Expand it by adding multiple phrases

Make a verb act like an adjective! Add a Verb Participle (–ed, –ing, or irregular) to a main clause. Main Clause: The monster attacked. Main Clause + Verb Phrases: The monster attached, knocking down tables, grabbing men by the armfuls, and devouring them without a respite. Swollen with rage, the monster attacked. Add a Noun + Verb Participle ( –ed, --ing, or irregular) Chest heaving, fangs showing, the monster attacked.

Pitchforking Sentences _____________________, the monster attacked. to drool to rip to stomp to break The monster attacked,______________________. Groups: Pitchfork a main clause with as many phrases as you can. Highlight the verb phrases you add to the main clause .