Monday, November 16, 2009

Can someone help me with my language arts homework?

1.Bright eyed Fay, slipping through the open door of the hangar. There it was looming above her. The dim lights gleaming on the slick skin of the sleek, all powerful jet. On the tail, in bright red letters, she seen the company logo and the name Apollo Industries. (11)





2.Putting the helmet on and flipped the swich marked RADIO. “Tower,” she said, “this is Apollo One requesting clearence for takeoff.” It was exactly what her father always said.(7)





3.As the silver-skinned plane raced for the end of the runway, she begun to feel a moment of panick, she told herself that all she had to do was what she seen her father do a hundred times.(7)





4.The tail of the plane seemed to drop for a moment, then she realized that she was off the ground. Fay increased the power from the throbbing engines, the silver jet seemed to leap toward the sun.(5)





I can't really find anything wrong with this paragraph besides the spelling can someone help?

Can someone help me with my language arts homework?
use saw instead of seen
Reply:Well . . . let's try the first one. Where's the verb in that first sentence? It doesn't have one. Second sentence: there WHAT was? And even if that phrase didn't dangle, it needs to be set off by a comma. The third sentence is a fragment; it's just a phrase. The final sentence - "she seen"?





Keep looking for dangling modifiers, run-on sentences, sentence fragments, and the like. In fact, the last sentence of your question is a run-on, so you might want to review that.
Reply:P1. First sentence has no verb, it is a clause, not a sentence.


Either: were gleaming, or gleamed


she saw


P2. Either: she put the helmet on and flipped...


or Putting on and flipping


P3. she began. Either: what she saw or had seen


P4. Either: as Fay, or and the silver jet
Reply:I think it is about Takeing off to space.


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