1. Bad sentence Good sentence with context clues!

2. What she said was an adage. She quoted an adage when saying, “The early bird gets the worm.”

3. It’s a bonanza. When we found all of these diamonds and traded them in, we made a bonanza!

4. Dally is very churlish. Dally’s behavior is very churlish because he is always rude. Dally’s behavior is very churlish because he always tries to make fun of girls. It was very churlish when Dally burped at the dinner table and didn’t say, “Excuse me.”

5. I looked at the citadel by the city. I looked at the citadel overlooking and protecting the city. I looked at the citadel that once protected the city from Roman soldiers. I stood guard at the citadel that protected the fort. The citadel served as the last defense before the kingdom fell to the opposing army.

6. We collaborated on a project. The students decided to collaborate to make the best project rather than working independently. The students were working together as a team, and the teacher walked by and said, “Y’all are collaborating very well.” Ms. Callahan and Ms. O’Sullivan collaborated to make the best project for their students because they believe two heads are better than one.

7. The judge made a decree. The judge decreed that the criminal was guilty. The principal decreed that girls could not wear yoga pants any more. The Queen of England decreed that you could only sing between the hours of 8 AM and 3 PM

8. They were discordant in the classroom. The teacher told the arguing class to stop being discordant. The group became discordant when they could not figure out which ideas to put on the poster. When collaborating, the discordant group could not decide on which adage to use in their essay.

9. We have evolved. We have evolved over the years from kindergarteners to seventh graders in character and academics. Matthew Delladova evolved from a “nobody” to a baller.

10. The paragraph is an excerpt. The excerpt from the book showed a great evidence of characterization.

11. She groped for her cell phone. She groped for her cell phone when the power went out. Last night, Mr. Kirkwood groped around while looking for his flashlight in the front yard.

12. We were hovering over her. As we were in the helicopter, we hovered over the landing pad. The planes hovered, floating above the clouds.

13. I was jostled by the crowd. I was jostled by the man in the crowd because of his impatience to get the new Apple 87.

14. He was a laggard in school. Our cross-country team proved they have no laggards when they all won the meet.

15. The crowd gave the actor plaudits. The crowd exploded in plaudits when Ethan Moss won the cross-country meet.

16. The test questions precluded me. The test questions were so difficult and labor-intensive that they precluded me from finishing on time.

17. I reverted. After gaming three hours a day on Game of War, I reverted back to Clash of Clans. In order to get the cookie, I cut the dessert line and made me revert to the end. When my Xbox got the red ring of death, my stats reverted back to their original settings.

18. I passed by the big pile of rubble. I passed the big pile of rubble of the city mall before Miley Cyrus’s wrecking ball destroyed it.

19. I don’t like servile attitudes. I don’t like servile attitudes; I like honest opinions. While the waitress gave me a servile comment on my eyes, I knew she was trying to get a good tip. The servile opinions were not validated in the meeting; only the honest ones were.

20. We kept vigil. We kept a vigil watch at night over the warehouse to make sure no one broke in.

21. My brother and I wrangled. My brother and I wrangled over who would get to ride in the front seat.