Imagine that you receive a gardening kit from your parents

[iambozdar]

Imagine that you receive a gardening kit from your parents.

1. Write two declarative sentences describing the package.

• The package contains fruit, grain, and vegetable seeds.
• The package is not wrapped with anything.

2. Write two interrogative sentences asking for help in planting.

• Could you please pick the tomato seeds for me?
• Is it going to rain?

3. Write one imperative sentence telling someone to do something.

• Water the plants.

4. Write one exclamatory sentence expressing strong feeling about the kit.

• How full is this kit with the seeds!

Source: Macmillan English, Exercise: Writing Sentences, Page 05

 

[emsr2d2]

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[iambozdar]

Do you have a question for us?

Could you please check if my answers to above questions are right?

 

[emsr2d2]

Imagine that you receive a gardening kit from your parents.

1. Write two declarative sentences describing the package.

• The package contains fruit, grain, and vegetable seeds.
• The package is not wrapped with anything.

As written, the first appears to say that the package contains three things:
1. Fruit.
2. Grain.
3. Vegetable seeds.
Try to re-write it so it's clear that it's seeds for all three.

I'd say "The package is unwrapped". However, I'd find something more interesting to say about it. How about the size, shape, colour etc?

2. Write two interrogative sentences asking for help in planting.

• Could you please pick up/out the tomato seeds for me?
• Is it going to rain?

The first needs the changes I've shown above.
The second doesn't make sense. That's not asking for help. It's asking for the weather forecast!

3. Write one imperative sentence telling someone to do something.

• Water the plants.

That's good if you've already planted the seeds and they've grown into seedlings. As it stands, it doesn't make much sense because at the moment, you just have a kit - you don't have any plants for anyone to water.

4. Write one exclamatory sentence expressing strong feeling about the kit.

• How full is of seeds this kit is! with the seeds!

See above.

Source: Macmillan English, Exercise: Writing Sentences, Page 05

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[iambozdar]

I noted your corrections yesterday. I am rewriting the sentences for a reassessment.

Try to re-write it so it's clear that it's seeds for all three.

• The package contains seeds of fruits, grains, and vegetables.
• The package has seeds for fruits, grains, and vegetables.

How about the size, shape, colour etc?

• The package kit is in the brown colour, and it is made of the maple tree wood.

The second doesn't make sense.

• Would you like to plant the apricot seeds together with me?

at the moment, you just have a kit

• Separate the fruit seeds from rest of the seeds.

Titles should include some of the words/sentences you're asking us to look at. The source information should appear directly under the quote.

Thank you. I will follow the style guidelines.

Questions
1. How can I improve the structure of exclamatory sentences? I have only used exclamatory words, or phrases not composed of more than 3 words.
For example: Really! No kidding! My goodness!

 

[Tarheel]

You could say the kit is brown, but I wouldn't. Here you are describing the box it came in.

(I am struggling with the idea of a gardening kit.)

Exclamatory sentence:

I've got it!

 

[emsr2d2]

I noted your corrections yesterday. I am rewriting have rewritten the sentences for a reassessment.

See above.

The package contains seeds of fruits, grains, and vegetables.
The package has seeds for fruits, grains, and vegetables.

See above.

The package kit is in the brown colour, and it is made of the maple tree wood.

See above.

Would you like to plant the apricot seeds together with me?

That's not asking someone for help.

Separate the fruit seeds from the rest of the seeds.

See above.

1. How can I improve the structure of exclamatory sentences? I have only used exclamatory words, or phrases not composed of more than 3 three words.
For example:
Really!
No kidding!
My goodness!

I'm not sure what you mean. Anything can be an exclamation, as long as it's something you say with that exclamatory tone of voice.

 

[iambozdar]

That's not asking someone for help.

Would you mind planting the apricot seeds together with me?

 

[emsr2d2]

Would you mind planting the apricot seeds together with me?

I suggest you include the word "help" in whatever your suggestion is.

 

[Tarheel]

1. How can I improve the structure of exclamatory sentences? I have only used exclamatory words, or phrases not composed of more than 3 words.
For example: Really! No kidding! My goodness!

I like that rule.

In my humble opinion, exclamatory sentences should be brief. (Some will disagree, but they are wrong.)

If you'd like me to I'll explain more about what I call the rule of four.

 

[iambozdar]

I suggest you include the word "help" in whatever your suggestion is.

Please, lend me a hand. I am planting apricots.
Assist me planting apricots, please.
Could you please help me with planting apricots?

 

[emsr2d2]

Please no comma here lend me a hand. I am planting the apricots.

That's fine but it doesn't make it clear that you want help with planting the apricots. It only says that's what you're doing.

Assist me with planting the apricots no comma here please.

That's OK with my corrections, although native speakers tend not to use "Assist me" in a request outside of a formal setting.

Could you please help me with planting the apricots?

With my corrections, that's correct, polite and natural.

Note that in all three I'd probably say "planting the apricot seeds".

Here's a very casual, natural way of saying it, if you were talking to a close family member or a friend:
Can you give me a hand planting the apricot seeds?

 

[iambozdar]

Note that in all three I'd probably say "planting the apricot seeds".

It seems that I have trouble using "the" article and the comma.

I will work on them before posting anything new.

 

[Tarheel]

I might say that I have trouble with articles and comma usage.