Monday, October 12, 2009

Sentence 10

His Sentence:
 
But what do we know there's a good chance that there's a female on board, Ro thought grimly, remembering the attack on Macet.

From Star Trek Deep Space Nine Unity by, S.D. Perry

A complex sentence is created by the combination of a subordinate clause, an appositive, and a participial phrase. Used to add some intensity to the scene.

My Sentence:

How is a war to be ended in peace, he thought suddenly, knowing about past wars.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Sentence 9

His sentence:

The grief, surely it's the grief.

From: Star Trek Deep Space Nine Unity, by S.D. Perry

A Chiasmus is used to show that the grief is what is causing the pain.

My Sentence:

The irony, o the irony.



Sentence 8

His Sentence:

Her earring. It's gone.

From: Star Trek Deep Space Nine Unity, by S.D. Perry

A rhetorical fragment is used to emphasize that the earrring, on a girl who always has the same earring, is gone.

The car. It's gone.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Sentence 7

His Sentence:

There! There, I see it!

From: Star Trek Deep Space Nine Unity, by S.D. Perry

The author uses an interjection and a rhetorical fragment to show show the pain of a baby being born, and to show the excitement of the moment.

My Sentence:

Look! Look, there it is.

Sentence 6

His Sentence:

Time Moves.

From: Star Trek Deep Space Nine Unity, by S.D. Perry

The author uses a rhetorical fragment to show that time goes on no madder what. He does this after a friend of the main character dies to show what the other character were saying, that time will always go on.

My Sentence:

He falls.

Sentence 5

His Sentence:

Each parasite has the ability access the short-term memory of a host, creating a further difficulty in detection . . . though long-term memory is out of there reach,which is another way they can be spotted.

From: Star Trek Deep Space Nine Unity, by S.D. Perry

A complex sentence is created by combing a participial phrase, and a second participial phrase using an ellipsis.

My Sentence:

Every person has there own special way of doing things, be different . . . threw out life, which is why the would is so special.

Sentence 4

His sentence:

At some point, either Kira or Nog had told him that Yevir Linjarin had actually served on the station as one of the Militia Crew, and that he'd had some kind of vision after meeting Jake's father a few years ago.

From: Star Trck Deep Space Nine Unity, By S.D. Perry

A prepositional phase is used at the beginning is used to show that the character does not know when something happend. The sentence is also a compound sentence combing two sentences about a dream someone had.

My Sentence:

Before the game, either Sam or Bill will tell Kate about the problem, and that they had build her a new desk.