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Extract from 'How to Train Your Dragon'
Use the paging controls at the bottom of the screen to read through the extract. (You can jump to pages using the controls at the top left.)
To enlarge the view, use the Zoom button at the top right and the tracking pad that appears. (A double-click on the tracking pad will restore the view to normal.) You can also use your mouse wheel to zoom.
On some of the pages, there is a grammar tool that highlights the grammatical structures in the sentences. Use the Grammar button at the top to reveal the menu of options you can use. The paging controls show the grammar-enabled pages in yellow.
Use the grammar feature to draw attention to the grammatical patterns in sentences. For example:
Only turn on nouns, determiners, adjectives and noun phrases to see the positional relationship of these word types within a noun phrase.
Only turn on nouns, noun phrases, pronouns and verbs to see how verbs have subjects and objects and how pronouns stand in for nouns and noun phrases.
Only turn on verbs and helping verbs to see how an auxiliary verb alters the tense or the mode.
Only turn on preposition phrases, noun phrases, verbs and adverbials to see the two functions of a preposition phrase – as an adverbial, to modify a verb, or within a noun phrase to modify a noun. See how a preposition phrase is made up of a preposition and a noun phrase.
Discussion points
- What can you say about the characters in the text?
- Can you explain why certain parts of the narrative are in italic text?
- Discuss why the author has put a lot of the text in capital letters.
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