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I was encouraged to check out this forum by Pup, but ... I have to say, I'm having a hard time to relating to being discouraged when you are IN THE TOP 40. I would be dancing on the rooftops. I have only made it twice and was truly humbled to be there. Granted, I haven't been around long and I'm sti...

Carol just breathes a huge sigh of relief.

Thanks, Jan, for your input. But in looking at that poem, "Daniel and the Lions' Den", I found I DID use way too many exclamation points. I just used a sample verse to justify one and eliminate one. I am learning so much from your classes. Now my biggest problem will be remembering it all....

Let me lead off by first saying, I, more than anyone else, NEED this lesson (and here I would place an exclamation point) normally. It's like Verna has said, I use them in my correspondence on a regular basis...all the time. Here is my homework. It is actually an example of both of your assignments ...

Thanks, Verna, that makes me feel better. I try not to use them in my writing overmuch....

Does that get me off the hook?

You were pointing your fingers right at me, Jan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Dub, knows I do this all the time. I'll do my homework a little bit later, okay?

Carol Penhorwood

Yes, that was EXTREMELY helpful to me. You are a very good teacher. That made it so much easier to understand. Thank you, Anja.

It's nice to know there is no huge pressure! I feel like I too have a lot of irons in the fire and my kids are grown. I'm just trying to keep up and keep growing, continue learning.

Thanks, Anja.

Thanks, I really feel like I am absorbing so much. If you don't hear from me, it is because for some reason, I didn't receive the information that there was a NEW post. I don't know why that happens some times.

But I WANT to be a part of it ALL.

Carol Penhorwood

Personally, I found the gerunds and possessive part of your lesson difficult. I admit I have been out of school a very long time....

Okay, here is my try at this: One of my favorite things is doing the laundry. It's relaxing to me, and nothing makes me happier than hanging clothes in the sunshine. My neighbor, whose husband is a truck driver, says she doesn't have time, so she dries hers in a dryer. I love the way ours smell so f...

CONGRATULATIONS TO ONE AND ALL!


Carol Penhorwood

Somehow the way you wrote "A Sunny Day in Victoria", mixing your tenses seemed perfectly appropriate to me. Am I wrong, Jan?

Leah, your writing is incredible...very moving. Thank you for sharing that with us! I loved both, but especially loved "A Place For The Lonely". Very poignant. I certainly didn't see any mixed tenses.

I could smell the gasoline all around us; we were trapped. The loaded gravel truck had taken a healthy bite out of the rear of our car. Managing to avoid a head-on collision, I looked around for my three daughters. I can smell the gasoline all around me; we are trapped. The loaded gravel truck has ...