Three sentences to describe this scene.

Finite verbs

To write a complete sentence, you must have a finite verb. A finite verb can:•show tense– She works in London. She worked in London.

•show changes in number and person– He works. They work. I am. You are.

•Be constructed with an auxiliary - I am working.

Not all verbs are finite …• Non-finite verbs are used in these three ways:• Present participle: -ing words– walking, tiring, working

• Past participle: -ed words– Walked, tired, worked

• Infinitive: the root of any verb (no tense or person ending)– Walk, tire, work

If you use these verbs on their own – without an

auxiliary, with no other verb – then you will not

have written a sentence.

Write a magazine article explaining where you come from.

Bleak House by Charles DickensFog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and

meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and

the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on

the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on

the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales

of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich

pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of

the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly

pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck. Chance

people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog

all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.

Annotate the text

• Identify the verbs• What do you notice?• Why does he do this?• What does he gain?

• Extend: examine punctuation

Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships

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Your turn

Working in pairs, “Write a magazine article explaining where you come from.”

Rules:•Use the pictures to structure your writing•Use juxtaposition •Use non-finite verbs•Use semicolons