Where's Waldo? The Thistle Version

[thistlechaser]

So the AirBnB place is nice. The outside isn't very good looking, but the apartment is a two bedroom one, all for me. I left my stuff and my cat there this morning.

First thing Ellie did: Tried to eat the fake tree. >< It had brown moss/straw stuff around the bottom, and she got a mouthful before I realized it. I hope she doesn't throw it back up...

I hid the tree in the second bedroom. Hopefully both it and Ellie will be safe that way.

I feel really bad leaving her alone there in the new place, but I had to get to work.

I have it booked until Friday (checkout time 11 AM), and I'm really, really worried my apartment won't be done by then. Or that it will be done at like 5 PM. I can't really keep my cat in the car for six hours.

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In more positive news, I transferred the one prescription I take to Costco, saving money. I also am going through them for my year's supply of contact lenses, which will save more money. Yay!

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The college class (Editing) I'm taking is still so very very hard. I keep thinking I should have dropped it, though it's too late now. It's really frustrating, because I can edit things! On that part, I get a near-perfect score, but on explaining why I make those changes, I flounder hard.

Comments

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Glad it seems to be good!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

It's really a nice apartment. Under other conditions, I could be happy here.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Why did you only book it until Friday? Did the rates go up? Hopefully they can give you an ETA by Thursday so you can figure out if you need to find another place for one night. :| Yeah, this whole situation sucks.

Also, why do kitties eat the stupidest stuff??? Starbuck did that too with easter grass in Sylvia's basket...and returned it quickly :(

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Supposedly we're going to be able to move back in on Friday. Fingers crossed!

I don't think Ellie threw it back up, or if she did, I didn't find it. (Sorry, apartment owners!)

[loup_noir]

May your revitalized apartment be done on time! Is there any wiggle room with the AirBnB person, if it isn't ready?

Curious about the editing course. What sort of exercises are required? Are you given documents to edit? Which house style are you using?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I have my fingers crossed that it will be done on time. I should have some news by tomorrow night... The AirBnB space depends on if anyone else books it for once I'm due to move out. I won't know until the last moment if I need the space longer, so I can't ask them to hold it for me.

We're in the fifth week of the course (out of 10) and we're only up to editing sentences, haha. I don't have my course password here on this old laptop, I'll try to remember copying some exercises for you tomorrow.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I pulled out a few random ones.

Highlight the part of the sentence below that constitutes its predicate:
1. Once the “forty-niners” reached San Francisco, living conditions were dismal.

2. In San Francisco Bay, abandoned ships, numbering more than five hundred by 1850, rotted away.

Sentence Patterns
In each sentence below, identify the sentence pattern, using the abbreviations listed below. Don’t bother about modifiers that are not part of the basic pattern.

S = subject ADJ = adjective ADV = adverb
DO = direct object IO = indirect object V = verb
C = conjunction PP = prepositional phrase

The ship rocked precariously.
The eagle flew above the clouds.
Mother gave thanks to the hospital staff.

(That one might seem easy, but there are a dozen or so different kinds of adjectives and a whole mess of different kinds of adverbs.)

Are the underlined verbs in the following sentences linking verbs (LV), transitive verbs (TV), or intransitive verbs (IV)?

A. My attorney told me that in the last five years, the number of cases filed in Small Claims Court has tripled.

Identify the underlined word in each sentence as a subject complement (SC), object complement (OC), direct object of the verb (DO), or indirect object (IO) of the verb.

My attorney told me that in the last five years, the number of cases filed in Small Claims Court has tripled.

Underline the sentence’s complete subject and boldface the complete predicate . All words will be either underlined or bolded.
A trigger for World War 1 was the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914.
The Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) was an early expression of the rising European nationalism that accompanied the Industrial Revolution.

These are a mix of questions from weeks 1-4. Six weeks left to go. We've started actually editing sentences now, which should be easy, but the professor only ever accepts one answer... That's kind of BS, as in writing there's never just one single right way to write a sentence. Like we were working on parallelism in sentences and had to correct this one:

One lesson of King Lear is that human beings have not only a great capacity for being seduced by flattery but also that they are capable of realizing their folly and dying with dignity.

My corrected version was:
One lesson of King Lear is that human beings have not only a great capacity for being seduced by flattery but also the capability of realizing their folly and dying with dignity.

But the only right way is supposedly:
One lesson of King Lear is that human beings not only have a great capacity for being seduced by flattery but also are capable of realizing their folly and dying with dignity.

In mine, I have "humans have thing #1 and have thing #2", in the right one it's "humans have... humans are", so... I think mine is more correct, but it doesn't match her opinion, so it was marked wrong.