Monday, December 9, 2013

Exit Slip 12/9--Tone

The following sentences describe an apartment with a different tone. Use them to answer the questions in the form below.

1)This is the apartment we live in.  It provides shelter.
2)When we move away, we’re planning to release three hundred cockroaches and tow mice, so we can leave the place exactly as we found it.
3) This place does need some repairs, but I’m sure the landlord will be making improvements sometime soon.
4)If only there were some decent jobs out there, I wouldn’t be reduced to living in this miserable dump.
5)This isn’t the greatest apartment in the world, but it’s not really that bad.
6)This place may be shabby, but since both of my children were born while we lived here, it has a special place in my heart.