Super Sentence Bowl I

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Super Sentence Bowl I

• Subjects and Predicates

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Rules

• No blurting out answers!
• I can only hear one person at a time!

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What do the questions cover?

• The questions cover sentence structures and
  naughty sentence forms.
• Round One is over sentence structures
• Round Two is over naughty sentences
• Round Three is over both
• Round Four is the bonus round

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Round One

• Split evenly into two groups. In this round, the
  questions alternate between the groups. Group
  One responds to the ODD questions Group Two
  responds to the EVEN questions. The group may
  confer for up to five seconds before it must
  answer or forfeit the question. Only the speaker
  may speak!

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Number 1.

• Terry went to school and took a test.
• Simple

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Number 2.

• While he marked his scantron, Terry nervously
  flipped the pages.
• Complex

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Number 3.

• Terry only thought of failure, but Lucinda was
  confident.
• Compound

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Number 4.

• Lucinda knew every answer!
• Simple

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Number 5.

• She always let Terry know when she made the
  better grade.
• Complex

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Number 6.

• Occasionally, Terry asks Lucinda to dinner, but
  she has never accepted his offer.
• Compound

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Round Two

• Each group must select members to go head-to-head
  with the opposing groups. The first player to
  raise his hand AND subsequently called on will be
  allowed to answer the question. If the first
  player is wrong, then the second player will be
  allowed to answer the question. Questions will
  be thrown out if others in the groups begin
  talking or murmuring!!!

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First

• John, who chaired the Foreign Relations
  Committee.
• Fragment

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Second

• John applied himself diligently in this role and
  eventually he was awarded a service medal.
• Fused

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Third

• After working for three long, dreary nights,
  Rachel and Miranda celebrated their achievement,
  they feasted upon ice cream sundaes!
• Comma Splice

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Fourth

• There is always something to do in town I often
  find new things to do.
• Fused

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Fifth

• Between the washer and the drier, underneath the
  counter.
• Fragment

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Sixth

• The evening we killed the first lion it was dark
  when we camp in sight of camp.
• Okay

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Seventh

• Though tempted by meteoric fates and bludgeoned
  by young and old alike, frequently frighteningly
  too similar, Carla turned, coughed at the badgers
  lurking near the trashcans, and, after pausing
  cautiously, screamed a vagabond yell.
• Okay

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Round Three

• A specific individual from only one group at a
  time will be called on to answer the question.
  Group Two will go first.

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Even

• Alberto, who owes me fives dollars, manages a
  grocery store and has three children.
• Complex

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Odd

• His oldest daughter, Maria, plays the French horn
  it is a beautiful instrument.
• Fused

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Even

• Often, we carpool to the symphony.
• Simple

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Odd

• One time, we sat in center orchestra, it was
  amazing!
• Comma Splice

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Even

• The music blew through our bodies while the
  fevered passions of the musicians lit up the
  stage.
• Complex

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Odd

• Albertos son, Ruben, plays clarinet which is his
  fathers favorite instrument, and he has recently
  begun the tenth grade.
• Compound-Complex

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Odd

• Ruben, practicing frequently, has already won two
  awards if he wins another, then he will go to
  state!
• Fused

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Even

• And he loves to entertain a crowd.
• Fragment

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Odd

• He used to perform magic shows, but now he
  specializes in concerts.
• Compound

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Even

• Alberto is a lucky father!
• Simple

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Bonus Round

• Each group must decide on how many points it
  wishes to wager on the final question (NOTE
  groups cannot wager more than they have!). One
  person from each group will write down the wager
  amount on a piece of paper and hand this paper to
  the announcer.

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Continued

• The groups each have twenty seconds to decide
  what sentence structure the bonus question is and
  write the answer down. When time has expired,
  both groups must submit the papers.

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BONUS

• He once thought kindly of him and enjoyed his
  presence until the rueful day when he crossed
  paths with a dark and dangerous maiden with green
  eyes that jumped and dazzled in the moonlight
  cast down through the whistling tree branches.
• Complex

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Sudden death!

• What did you hear when the cars crashed, the
  children screamed, and the tires screeched along
  the dry pavement, was it loud?
• Comma splice