Write an essay about an event you're looking forward to attending in the coming weeks or months. Focus on varying your sentence structure by using the types of phrases and clauses taught in this lesson. You should include at least one example of each of the following: 1. a participial phrase
2. a prepositional phrase
3. a sentence with two independent clauses joined by a conjunction
4. a noun clause
5. a relative, or adjective, clause
6. an adverbial clause

Your essay should be at least 150 words long.

When you have finished your essay, find one of each of the types of phrases and clauses you have used, place brackets around it, and put a letter next to it. (You only need to mark one of each type of phrase or clause, even if you have used the form several times.)

Read the excerpt from act i of the importance of being earnest. lady bracknell. well, i must say, algernon, that i think it is high time that mr. bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. this shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. . i should be much obliged if you would ask mr. bunbury, from me, to be kind enough not to have a relapse on saturday, for i rely on you to arrange my music for me. it is my last reception, and one wants something that will encourage conversation, particularly at the end of the season when every one has practically said whatever they had to say, which, in most cases, was probably not much. what aspect of lady bracknell’s behavior does wilde use to poke fun at the importance placed on frivolous events in formal society? her concern with a party instead of mr. bunbury’s health her interest in playing classical music at her reception her jealousy over algernon’s friendship with the sickly mr. bunbury her concern about the health of algernon’s friend

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Match the author with the description a. ernest hemingway b. john steinbeck c. robert frost d. langston hughes (1) summers spent in pacific grove, california influenced the symbolism in his literature (2) his poetry includes simple, direct language. many are dramatic monologues written in free verse are about life on new england farms (3) the mood and tone of his literature is largely shaped by his experience as a soldier in world war 1 (4) his poetry and short stories include dialect and colloquialisms which gives his primarily african american characters distinctive voices