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look shrilled isabelle ingenuous in her high voice as she nervously twirled the purple plastic butterfly that was perched in her wild curly auburn hair always upbeat isabelle was dressed in her knew outfit of purple shorts and a bright green top all the lights are on and there is a teacher gazing out the window of each classroom isabelle ingenuous continued i wish we were going to marvelously magic magnet school instead of this old ordinary insipid one groaned williamwaggish who was not his usual teasing cheerful self Seven Extra Credit Points: Correct the “Caught Ya!” error, define the five bold words, and find an example of alliteration. Passage 2 Errors: 37
¶“Look!”shrilled IsabelleIngenuous in her high voice as she nervously twirled the purple,plastic butterfly that was perched in her wild, curly auburn hair.Always upbeat, Isabelle was dressed in her new outfit of purple shorts and a bright green top. “All the lights are on,and there is a teacher gazing out the window of each classroom,”Isabelle Ingenuous continued. ¶ “Iwish we were going to Marvelously Magic Magnet School instead of this old,ordinary insipidone,” groaned William Waggish,who was not his usual teasing,cheerful self. • Indent paragraph x2 • New topic • New speaker • Quotation marks around dialogue x3 • Capitalize the first word of a sentence x4 • Exclamation point for emphasis or high emotion • Capitalize proper nouns x11 • Run-On sentences x5 • Separate into 2 sentences • Separate with comma and conjunction • Separate with semi-colon • Comma between coordinate (and interchangeable) adjectives x2 • End punctuation x4 • Homophones (knew, new) • Punctuation marks inside quotation marks x3 • Capitalize proper pronoun (I) • Comma to separate non-restrictive (unnecessary) clause • Extra Credit: • Add a second check to the Caught Ya! error if you got it right on your own. • Vocabulary: • shrilled(v.) high-pitched and piercing in sound • ingenuous (adj.) free from reserve or dissimulation; frank, candid, open, sincere; innocent • auburn(adj.) a reddish-brown • insipid(adj.) without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; uninteresting; boring • waggish (adj.) roguish in merriment and good humor; funny • Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds, like the /m/ sound in Marvelously, • Magic, and Magnet. All the student names are also alliterative. Passage 2 Errors: 37