Techniques of writing

The teacher writes a target topic on the blackboard for example ‘ A Bank Robbery”

The teacher has a brainstorming session for verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs.

Suggested verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs are written on the board.
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hree little words you often see

Are ARTICLES: a, an, and the.

A NOUN's the name of anything,

As: school or garden, toy, or swing.

ADJECTIVES tell the kind of noun,

As: great, small, pretty, white, or brown.

VERBS tell of something being done:

To read, write, count, sing, jump, or run.

How things are done the ADVERBS tell,

As: slowly, quickly, badly, well.

CONJUNCTIONS join the words together,

As: men and women, wind or weather.

The PREPOSITION stands before

A noun as: in or through a door.

The INTERJECTION shows surprise

As: Oh, how pretty! Ah! how wise!

The whole are called the PARTS of SPEECH,

Which reading, writing, speaking teach.

Sentence Parts:
Function and Usage Notes
 Absolute Determiners/
Adjectives Adverbs
Phrases Articles

Coordinated
Clauses Complements Conjunctions
Adjectives

Direct
and
Interjections Nouns Phrases
Indirect
Objects

Predicates Prepositions Pronouns Subjects

Verbs and Verbals

(Infinitives, Participles, Gerunds)

Ident

Learning Prefixes and Suffixes

Knowing the Greek and Latin roots of several prefixes and suffixes (beginning and endings
attached to words) can also help us determine the meaning of words. Ante, for instance, means
before, and if we connect bellum with belligerant to figure out the connection with war, we'll
know that antebellum refers to the period before war. (In the United States, the antebellum
period is our history before the Civil War.)

Prefixes showing quantity

Meaning Prefixes in English Words
half semiannual, hemisphere
one unicycle, monarchy, monorail
two binary, bimonthly, dilemma, dichotomy
hundred century, centimeter, hectoliter
thousand millimeter, kilometer
Prefixes showing negation
 without, no, asexual, anonymous, illegal, immoral,
not invalid, irreverent, unskilled
not, absence nonbreakable, antacid, antipathy, contradict
of, opposing,
against
opposite to, counterclockwise, counterweight
complement
to
do the dehorn, devitalize, devalue
opposite of,
remove,
reduce
do the disestablish, disarm
opposite of,
deprive of
wrongly, bad misjudge, misdeed
Prefixes showing time
before antecedent, forecast, precede, prologue
after postwar
again rewrite, redundant
Prefixes showing direction or position
above, over supervise, supererogatory
across, over transport, translate
below, under infrasonic, infrastructure, subterranean,
hypodermic
in front of proceed, prefix
behind recede
out of erupt, explicit, ecstasy
into injection, immerse, encourage, empower
around circumnavigate, perimeter
with coexist, colloquy, communicate,
consequence, correspond, sympathy,
synchronize