Explanations
I.
- (a) would be the answer for an information report.
(c) would be the answer for an explanation and things work.
II.
- a This introduces an information report
b. This introduces an explanation - b. This usually occurs in a recount
c. The complication has to have some kind of problem. In this longer story there are two series of events before the actual complication. - a This is the second series of events before the actual complication
b. This occurs in an explanation text, not in a narrative - a. This is the complication
- This paragraph has not only the resolution of the complication, "We'll give Tweet the best funeral a canary ever had.", but it also has the main character changing and learning from her experience. This is the coda.
III.
- Adjectivals add more information about nouns, not verbs. These words are referring to the verb.
- 'told', 'said' and 'replied' are saying verbs
- The participants in a story are specific people and animals and the like - in this case Sally and Tweet. These are also proper nouns because they are their names
- 'then', 'at this point' and 'just then' are connectives. They show the relationship/ time sequence among the events in the story
- The nouns in these groups are made vivid by the presence of adjectives adding certain qualities