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Three sentences to
describe this scene.
Finite verbs
To write a complete sentence, you must have a
finite verb. A finite verb can:
• show tense
– She works in London. She worked in London.
• show changes in number and person
– He works. They work. I am. You are.
• Be constructed with an auxiliary
- I am working.
Not all verbs are finite …
• Non-finite verbs are used in these three ways:
• Present participle: -ing words
– walking, tiring, working
• Past participle: -ed words
– Walked, tired, worked
• Infinitive: the root of any verb (no tense or
person ending)
– Walk, tire, work
Write a magazine article
explaining where you
come from.
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and
meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping
and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex
marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collierbrigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog
drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and
throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their
wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper,
down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his
shivering little 'prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping
over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they
were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.
Annotate the text
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Identify the verbs
What do you notice?
Why does he do this?
What does he gain?
• Extend: examine punctuation
Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying
out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great
ships
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Your turn
Working in pairs, “Write a magazine article
explaining where you come from.”
Rules:
• Use the pictures to structure your writing
• Use juxtaposition
• Use non-finite verbs
• Use semicolons