Question

label the parts of speech of the underlined words. when you picture deserts, you probably think of hot places covered with sand. correct the dialogue. only 20% of earth’s deserts are covered in sand explained the teacher. fix the sentence. is it a fragment or a run - on? antarctica is always cold it is a desert because it rarely rains or snows there. use these words to answer this week’s

Explanation:

Part 1 (Parts of Speech):

• you: Second-person personal pronoun, refers to the listener/reader.
• picture: Verb, expresses the action of imagining.
• deserts: Noun (plural), refers to arid landforms.
• probably: Adverb, modifies the verb "think" to show likelihood.
• think: Verb, expresses the action of believing/imagining.
• hot: Adjective, describes the noun "places".
• places: Noun (plural), refers to locations.
• covered: Verb (past participle), functions as an adjective here to describe "places".
• sand: Noun (uncountable), refers to granular mineral material.

Part 2 (Correct the Dialogue):

The original sentence is a direct quote missing proper punctuation and quotation marks. We add quotation marks around the spoken content, a comma before the tag "explained the teacher", and capitalize the start of the quote.

Part 3 (Fix the Sentence):

The original sentence is a run-on: it joins two independent clauses ("Antarctica is always cold" and "it is a desert because it rarely rains or snows there") without proper punctuation. We fix it by adding a semicolon or period between the clauses.

Answer:

1. Parts of Speech Labels:

• you: Pronoun
• picture: Verb
• deserts: Noun
• probably: Adverb
• think: Verb
• hot: Adjective
• places: Noun
• covered: Verb (acting as Adjective)
• sand: Noun

2. Corrected Dialogue:

"Only 20% of Earth's deserts are covered in sand," explained the teacher.

3. Fixed Sentence & Classification:

• Corrected sentence: Antarctica is always cold; it is a desert because it rarely rains or snows there. (or: Antarctica is always cold. It is a desert because it rarely rains or snows there.)
• Classification: Run-on sentence