Sonny Badolato
English 3050
Prof. Tim Conrad
10/27/12
Chapter 9, Rhetorical
Exercise 27
1. The administration’s recent clean-air proposals have been criticized as inadequate, not
only by environmental groups, but also by highly placed government officials from
several states.
2. A high-ranking federal employee testified at a Congressional hearing on Monday.
3. The stock market reached an all-time high last week and will probably keep going up.
4. There was a splendid, old-table for sale at the auction.
5. A big, yellow, delivery truck is blocking the driveway and its driver is nowhere to be
seen.
6. There was not enough firefighting equipment available this summer, for the widespread
devastating forest fires in the Northwest.
7. I found an expensive-looking, copper-colored bracelet in the locker room and
immediately turned it in to the coach.
8. A commonly-held notion, among my cynical friends, is that big business, lobbyists run
the country; they could be right.
9. I have back-to-back exams on Wednesday.
10. The highly-publicized paper-recycling program has finally become a reality on our
campus this fall, after a year-long surprisingly, acrimonious discussion.
Exercise 28
1. Having endured rain all week, we weren’t surprised by the miserable weather on
Saturday.
2. There was great excitement in the stands when the band finally played “The Star
Spangled Banner,” we all are hoping that our team will win our sixth game in a row.
3. We were not at all surprised when the Republican county commissioner, knowing for her
conservative views on taxes and the role of government, announced her candidacy for the
General Assembly
4. It was wonderful to do nothing but lie in the shade, exhausted by the heat and humidity,
and drink iced tea.
5. After spending all day in the kitchen, everyone agreed that my superb gourmet meal was
worth the effort.
6. The Clean Air Act was immediately put on the committee’s agenda, after feeling pressure
from the environmentalists.
7. Obviously intimidated by a long history of defeats in Morgantown, our basketball team
just can’t seem to beat the West Virginia Mountaineers on their home court.
8. I didn’t feel exactly overjoyed at seeing my parents arriving unexpectedly, on a weekend
when I have two papers to finish and a big exam coming up.
Exercise 29
1. When my roommate told me she was planning to withdraw from school, I was
completely surprised.
2. What the weather service had predicted was not both early and severe on the first
snowstorm of the season in Denver.
3. Converting the central card catalog in the college library to the computer system took
over four years to complete.
4. Some observers considered some harsh words that the President stated to Congress in his
recent press conference quite inappropriate.
5. Harriet was rather unhappy because Wendell didn’t want to stay for the second half of the
game.
6. We are probably having hot dogs for the rest of the month since we had company over
for dinner three times this week.
7. When the President characterized the last two years as a period of “unprecedented
prosperity” in his State of the Union message, one economist immediately labeled him
“sheer hype and hyperbole.”
8. Concerned about the environment, the Brazilian government has grudgingly agreed to
consider new policies regarding the rain forests, came as good news to everyone.
Exercise 30
1. Many coal miners in West Virginia refused to approve two sections of the contract
offered by management last week. They maintained that the sections covering wages and
safety represent no improvement over their present contract, expiring on Friday at
midnight.
2. A group of students held a protest rally in front of the administration building yesterday.
The students, hoping for a meeting with the provost, were demonstrating against the
tuition hike, recently approved by the trustees. The increase, expected to take effect in
September, will raise tuition almost 15 percent.
3. The senator and her husband, sitting next to her on the speaker’s platform, both looked
calm as they waited for the mayor to finish the introduction. Then the mayor, turning to
look directly at the senator, shocked both the audience and the listeners on the platform.
Exercise 31
1. In many parts of the country, citizens are mobilizing against crime and drugs, are driving
drug dealers out of their neighborhoods.
2. More and more public officials are supporting the legalization of drugs because there is
no other way to win the drug war.
3. The computer has revolutionized the storage and retrieval of fingerprints, which have
been used for criminal identification since 1891, when a police officer in Argentina
introduced the method.
4. The leaning tower of Pisa is 179 feet high, leans 17 feet off the perpendicular, and is over
800 years old.
5. In 1997 an earthquake struck the Assisi region of Italy, destroying many priceless 14th
century mosaics decorating the walls and ceiling of the Basilica of St. Francis.
6. Cancer researchers suspect that there is a causal link between the tow, the highest
incidence of colon cancer in the United States and highest levels of acid rain occurs in the
Northeast.
7. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air affects the rate of colon cancer because carbon
dioxide absorbs ultraviolet light, which fuels the body’s production of vitamin D.
8. Influenza, or flu, is a viral infection that begins as an upper respiratory infection and then
spreads to other parts of the body causing aches and pains in the joints.
9. We cannot build up our immunity to flu viruses because they mutate constantly,
producing new varieties that spread from person to person and from place to place.
10. The sodium intake of the average American is far higher than necessary, because the
average American consumes over 4000 mg per day and the recommended level is 400 to
3300 mg per day.
Exercise 32
1. Total number of simple sentences
2. Total number of compound sentences
a. number connected with and
b. number connected with but
c. number with other conjunctions
d. number with semicolons
3. Number of complex sentences
4. Number with adjectival clauses
5. Number with participial phrases
a. At sentence opening
b. At sentence end
Your Essay
Professional
76
23
16
6
11
0
3
29
17
7
19
93
14
15
4
14
2
8
38
22
11
6
6. Number of opening adverbial clauses
7. Number of other adverbial openers
26
40
31
41
Personal Essay
Chapter 17
Writing the nature essay
Sportsman’s Paradise
Sun rise is within minutes as we rushed to beat the break of dawn. From the still of the
night, the churping of crickets breaks the silence, nearby. We feel the calm yet quiet rippling
effects of the river current, as we launch the boat into the water. As we take off with all of our
gear, the turbulence of the engine breaks the silence of the dawn. A neighbor’s dog barking at us
from a distance away, from the direction where a bright, porch light was reflecting off the roof of
a riverfront house nearby. A silhouette reflection of the house was sculptured by the reflection of
the light casted onto the river current. Flying bugs are out in small packs this morning, due to our
presence, as we cause disturbance to the outdoors. As the sunrise breaks the horizontal brim of
the atmosphere, we had just reached our first of three favorite fishing spots. I noticed a dragonfly
perched on the rail of the boat, danced off the boat and onto a water lily pad next to the deep
marsh. As I stared at the beautiful textures of different colors of the dragonfly, its green eyes,
black, crystal wings and dark blue-green striped body, I was startled by a very big splashing
noise that whipped and lashed out at the lily. That dragonfly was nowhere to be seen, and the lily
was split in several sections. Ohhh that sucks for the dragonfly, he was someone’s breakfast this
morning…
Chapter 18
Writing the travel essay
The Not-So-Exotic
Malaysia
I was excited to make a trip to Malaysia in 1997. Once I arrived to see the city and the
country, it was ok, nothing spectacular or exciting. When I was walking through the rural to the
metropolitan areas, the scenery looked like a really low quality movie, a “B” rated movie. Every
building, whether it was commercial or residential, the buildings were all lacking paint. Some
buildings were somewhat unsure if they were residential or commercial. Several areas of the
streets needed road repairs. The commerce in this country was seriously lacking, because the
economic level was almost in poverty stage.
Since this morning, I and three other were touring the countryside. By the time we
decided to have lunch, it was already 2:30pm. We found this Chinese restaurant and decided to
dine. I was so hungry, I could eat a horse! Well, on the menu, there was no horse cuisine, but I
finally chose the beef and broccoli meal. Within 10 minutes, my lunch was served. It smelled
really good, the garlic and onion peels added to the beef and broccoli, with a bowl of white rice.
The flavor and the texture were delicious, until I tasted the beef. Beef didn’t taste like beef back
at home and it was so tough it felt like I was chewing on a really tough licorice. My friend Sean
asked me what dish I ordered. I told him beef and broccoli. He asked me if we had seen any
cattle in this country. I said no, as I started to stare at the mystery meat on my fork, and tried to
guess what it was. That portion of the meat looked like a small ear.
As I looked around, low behold, my eyes caught a small head with beady eyes popped up
above the countertop of the bar behind us. It hopped onto the counter, and darted for the back
door. It was a short hair, long bodied rat!!! I was about to barf…I couldn’t imagine eating
anything else in Malaysia.