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 Growing Sentences

 

Sentences grow.

 

These sentences grow.
Sentences on this page grow.
Starting from seeds, sentences grow.
Sentences that sprout modifiers grow.

 

 

 

 

Sentences grow easily.
Sentences grow before your eyes.
Sentences grow to develop sturdy shapes.
Sentences grow until they seem to gather
a momentum of their own.

 

 

Sentences grow branches.
Sentences grow new branches.
Sentences grow branches of words.
Sentences grow branches unfolding fresh ideas.
Sentences grow branches that may blossom with unexpected possibilities.

 

 

Starting from seeds, these sentences that sprout modifiers
grow easily before your eyes until they seem
to gather a momentum of their own. To develop
sturdy shapes, sentences grow new branches of words,
unfolding fresh ideas that may blossom
with unexpected possibilities.

 

 

In the sentences below, look at the words in this color. What do all these words have in common? Now look at the words in this color. What do these words have in common with each other?
  • Sentences grow.
  • Love deceives.
  • Someone is painting.
  • Kenisha must have forgotten.
  • Were they hiding?