Unit 8
If the speech has more than one part, we place quotation marks around each part. Each new piece of speech begins with a capital letter: “W e can’t trust Anansi ,” the animals said. “H e is a trickster. ”
4 Rewrite the conversation using correct punctuation.
Have you seen my father Anansi’s son asked He was here a few minutes ago said Frog I know where he is said Tortoise he is trying to climb that tree What are you doing in the tree the boy shouted you look silly I’m trying to hide this calabash replied Anansi Come down Papa the boy cried you will hurt yourself Anansi whispered be quiet I don’t want anyone to see me What did you say Papa the boy asked I can’t hear you
Possessive nouns
We use apostrophes to show that something belongs to someone or something. For singular nouns we add ’s to the end of the noun: the son of Anansi è Anansi ’s son For singular nouns ending in ‘s’, we put an apostrophe after the ‘s’: the arms of the octopus è the octopu s’ arms
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Rewrite using apostrophes. Example: the home of Tortoise è Tortoise’s home 1 the nest of the bird
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5 the books belonging to the teacher
2 the tail of the cat 3 the food of the dog 4 the brother of Thomas
6 the students of Mrs. Davis
7 the mother of Curtis
8 the keys belonging to my sister
• Exercise 4: Students can read the sentences first to identify the speech. Then work through a couple of examples on the board before students complete the exercise on their own. DA Allow some students to write only part of the dialogue.
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