Noun Jobs!

Holy Moly!

Students hated the HW last night!

"Mr. Tidyman, the HW last night was ridiculous! I can totes find gerunds in sentences...

But labeling them? Like, ew! No! You didn't prep us for this!!"

Correct, Generic Student Voice. Sometimes I just like to throw you into deep water.

Before we checked the answers to last night's HW, we took notes (in the Notes Composition Notebook) on the Noun Jobs:

"Ohhhhhhh snap! He did it again! He embedded a whole file!"

Here's a link to download the file, if you want:

Now, if you know my 3rd period class, you know that they're an interesting, creative, and vocal bunch (though NO ONE is as vocal as 6th). The ladies and gentlemen of 3rd period insisted I give a further example that demonstrates how a gerund phrase is allowed to operate as an indirect object. I asked for a sample gerund, and I got "sipping." This example was born:

I guess kids just love Muppets? Kermit is the Subject.

Now that we'd taken a nice healthy chunk of time to look real hard at grammar, we checked out the answers to the document from yesterday:

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You should admit it: This is a good blog post.

You know it is. Look at all this media. Dang.