Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Tuesday's HW Sentences in case you want to print them out to write on them

Classifying Sentences

1. At Shark Valley part of the fifteen-mile bike path was once a road that led to an oil-drilling operation.

2. Three of the people who were invited called to say that they could not come, but everyone else is coming.

3. Under hypnosis Taylor Caldwell remembered eleven past lives, but she still was not convinced that reincarnation occurs.

4. Phrenologists believed that a person’s character could be read from the shapes and bumps in the skull.

5. Hives look like a rash, and they are usually a reaction to some food, drug, pollen, or stress.

6. Cheryl has sent me two postcards from Monkey’s Eyebrow, Kentucky, and Tightwad, Missouri.

7. The image that appears on the retina is upside-down, but the brain corrects the image so that you “see” the object right-side up.

8. Castor oil, which is derived from castor plant beans, is a heavy, oily liquid still used as a laxative.

9. In 1905 an educator named Mary Lyon became the first woman in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.

10. Clogged pores can lead to acne, boils, and blackheads; sunlight, mild soap, and fresh air can help prevent these conditions.

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