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Activity 1: Using Subjects and Verbs Directions: This activity will help familiarize you with subjects and verbs
used by professional writers. Visit any or all of the following sites and
find an essay that interests you. The
New York Times Magazine The Atlantic Monthly Harper's Salon Magazine New Scientist The
Smithsonian Then find the subjects and verbs in the author's sentences. Can you
characterize the subjects? What kind of work do the verbs do? Can you make
any connections between these things and the reason you liked the essay in
the first place?
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