Using your best handwriting, please write the two sentences on the next slide into your Language spiral notebook. Watch out! There are errors in the sentences that need to be corrected. Write each sentence correctly into your notebook. Keep this spiral to study for the test over these sentences that will be on Friday.
Me and Pam think the story about John henry is believeable. It may be about a real person but no one are sure.
Pam and I think the story about John Henry is believable. It may be about a real person, but no one is sure.
John Henry was a dependible worker he builded railroads and tunnel. Him could swing his hammer for ten hour and not never be tired.
John Henry was a dependable worker. He built railroads and tunnels. OR John Henry was a dependable worker; he built railroads and tunnels. He could swing his hammer for ten hours and not ever (or never) be tired.
The steam drill made a admirible hole nine foots deep. Henry’s hole were fourteen feet deep him had beaten the steam drill!
The steam drill made an admirable hole nine feet deep. Henry’s hole was fourteen feet deep. He had beaten the steam drill! OR Henry’s hole was fourteen feet deep; he had beaten the steam drill!
After the contest john falled down dead with his hammer in his hand. He were buried in an suituble place it was near the tunnel.
After the contest, John fell down dead with his hammer in his hand. He was buried in a suitable place. It was near the tunnel. OR He was buried in a suitable place; it was near the tunnel.
Directions: Write each sentence correctly on a separate piece of notebook paper. (Please do not write them into your spiral notebook.) Check each sentence carefully before turning in your test.
1. Me and Pam think the story about John henry is believeable. 2. John Henry was a dependible worker he builded railroads and tunnel. 3. The steam drill made a admirible hole nine foots deep. 4. Henry’s hole were fourteen feet deep him had beaten the steam drill! 5. He were buried in an suituble place it was near the tunnel.