1. Is it a “meaningful” sentence?
Let’s Evaluate!
Is it a “meaningful” sentence?

2. What is a meaningful sentence?
A sentence is meaningful if you cannot put another word, other than a synonym, in place of the underlined word, and still have the sentence make sense.
For example, look at this sentence:
I saw an octopus.
I could put many words in the place of octopus, so this sentence is NOT meaningful.
Brainstorm what you know about an octopus.
Rewrite your sentence, including some of those clues and to make it a meaningful sentence.

3. Is it meaningful?
My uncle is very affluent, and he lives in New York.

4. Is it meaningful?
The new person was very ecstatic at school.

5. Is it meaningful?
My mom wishes we could be affluent by hitting the lottery, but we have had no luck.

6. Is it meaningful?
For my strings concert, I was very bashful.

7. Is it meaningful?
I love to adorn myself with jewelry all the time.

8. Is it meaningful?
I was very ecstatic when I made it to Junior Olympics.

9. Is it meaningful?
People always love to adorn themselves with costumes every Halloween.

10. Is it meaningful?
When school starts, I’m very bashful.