Personification a. The clouds wept grey tears


Metaphor


3 All the sentences in question 2 use the simple past tense. Change the verbs in the paragraph below to the simple past tense. (Hint: Be careful, all the verbs have irregular simple past tenses.)


I think of my childhood home. Travellers come there every day and speak to my parents. I buy baskets and fresh vegetables from them. We all take pleasure in these visitors because they bring a little excitement into our daily lives.


Language structure and conventions: Sentence structure


Sentence structure is important in the different sentence types you use.


A full sentence must have a subject (noun or pronoun) and predicate (part of sentence with a verb that says more about the subject).


Activity 3: Revise sentence structure in different sentence types 1 Read this Language box about three types of sentences.


Sentence structure and types


There are three types of sentences: 1 Statements – Tell us something. • Example: I have never known you.


subject predicate


2 Questions – Ask a question. • Examples: Does your blood flow in my veins?


subject predicate


What irrigates the fields? predicate


subject


3 Commands – Tell something or somebody to do something. • Example: Tell me, Africa.


28 Term 1: Weeks 3–4


There is no subject in a command.


Use a


modal verb or a


question word before the subject.


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