Pattern Hunting: Comic Strips 2  back to activity and exercise

  
Acknowledgements   We selected cartoons/comic strips from Daryl Cagle's 
Professional Cartoonists Index ©Daryl Cagle, http: //cagle.slate.msn.com 
In order to protect the copyrights of cartoonists, we only provide website addresses 
from which you can see the complete comic strips/cartoons. 
(Sorry about the inconvenience!) 
    Please read each comic strip and question below carefully 
        and identify the sentence pattern.   
　

(1) How nice...It's a postcard from the Gores on vacation... "Having a wonderful time, wish you were here."
  <Comic Strip 1>http://cagle.slate.msn.com/2000/heal/heal5.asp
Q1--a. It's a postcard from the Gores on vacation.
Q1--b. We wish you were here.                             

　

(2) Hm~ wish they'd given me a bigger bottle of glue.
  <Comic Strip 2> http://cagle.slate.msn.com/2000/heal/heal7.asp 
Q2--They'd given me a bigger bottle of glue.   

　

(3) "I don't have a gun...just a new set of braces, 
    that's all."
  <Comic Strip 3> http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/backschool/school6.asp   
Q3--a. I don't have a gun.   
Q3--b. I have just a new set of braces. 

　

(4) My fellow Americans, I'm here to warn you this country is going to hell in a handbasket...You can't trust anyone. You can't even trust Regan Appointee...
  <Comic Strip 4> http://cagle.slate.msn.com/microsoft/gates148.asp
Q4--You can't even trust Regan Appointee.    
             

     

(5) Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the biggest liar of them all? Sorry, but, there is a better fibber in the land. Moi?!! I would never market violence to children. 
  <Comic Strip 5> http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/hollywood/vio8.asp 
Q5--a. But, there is a better fibber in the land. 
Q5--b. I would never market violence to children.

　

(6)There's too much violence in movies and games...Violence on the internet...Guess I should have seen it coming when I invented it.
  <Comic Strip 6> http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/hollywood/vio6.asp
Q6--I should have seen it coming when I invented it. 

　

(7) I don't care what it says,...you don't have a choice...you are going to school.
  <Comic Strip 7> http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/backschool/school2.asp 
Q7--a. I don't care what it says.
Q7--b. You don't have a choice. 
Q7--c. You are going to school. 

　

(8) So, did you watch Survivor? Heck..I am a survivor.  
  <Comic Strip 8> http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/backschool/school1.asp 
Q8--a. Did you watch Survivor?
Q8--b. I am a survivor. 

　

(9)...And Charles is a selfish cad and Camilia is an interfering, self-serving old witch... Don't push it!
  <Comic Strip 9> http://cagle.slate.msn.com/comics/Diana3.asp
Q9--Charles is a selfish cad and Camilia is an interfering, self-serving old witch.
           

　

(10) I hate to tell you this, but Harry Potter is a fictitious character.

  <Comic Strip 10> http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/harrypotter/harry13.asp
Q10--a. I hate to tell you this.
Q10--b. But, Harry Potter is a fictitious character. 

　

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