In tim ranch's novel, a young fruit-bat is fascinated by children playing in a backyard. while upside down, the creature barely makes out images of swinging sticks and rolling balls in a host of colors and running humans. it is children enjoying a croquet set straight from the "fairest of three-dollar garage sales." the bat, of course, has very poor eyesight, but it is the bat's imagination-not just its vision and position-that propel the story. the bat imagines happy, laughter-filled backyard scenes. descriptions presented by this bat only add to the appeal of tim ranch’s latest novel, sleeping upside-down. in paragraph 1, the word appeal means a) charm. b) confusion. c) peculiarity. d) offensiveness.

In this project you will get practice writing sentences of more complexity. here is your goal for this assignment: write sentences containing present and past participles. write sentences containing gerunds. write ten sentences using the following terms as participles: feel, ride, smoke, pray, kneel, sacrifice, steal, talk, hit, and freeze. five of the terms must be used as present participles, while the other five must be used as past participles. then choose five of these verbs to write five sentences containing gerunds or gerund phrases. for these, identify the noun function of each gerund. your project will be graded based on the following: your attention to the instructions given above use of proper punctuation, spelling, grammar, and sentence construction (commonly called "conventions") requirements.