Holy moly! We made it!
Let's do a wrap-up activity to pull all of this together.
Here's a snippet about an accident during a lab class. This snippet has a few verb groups describing different actions. In this instance, the verb groups are mostly focused on communicating timing.
For this exercise, take the idea of an accident in science class, and write your own short passage—no more than a few sentences—but incorporate some other verb group components:
- Consider when your actions happen (past, present, or future) and whether they are ongoing or completed.
- Play around with one of the modes: likelihood, necessity, obligation, inclination, and ability.
- The modal verbs are can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, and must.
- Alternatively there are secondary verbs that can convey modes (or a multitude of other meanings!)
- You might also like to try adding an embedded adverb, use a negative, or hide an actor using passive voice.
You don't have to do all these, but see how many you can incorporate in a couple of sentences.
Remember: revision is your friend! Write something rough, then experiment with different verb group components until you get something you're happy with.
