Saturday, October 12, 2013

Blog 8- Apple Picking and Appositives



Okay…so I am having a hard time including these POWs in my previous blog posts, and I thought I would change it up and write about my fun weekend of apple picking from a couple weekends ago; It’s easier for me to start from scratch anyway. 

Last weekend (not this Dad’s Weekend, but the one before), my roommate and I dragged our boyfriends along to Bishop’s Apple Orchard to pick apples and make homemade apple cider. [Appositive punctuated with parenthesis] I shouldn’t say we dragged them because I think they wanted to go in the first place, and they really enjoyed themselves as well. ANYWAY…we drove to the orchard, and with three large bags in hand we were ready to pick some apples. The best and ripest apples— the ones on the very top of the tree— were no feat for my roommate, willing and adventurous, to climb up and get. [Appositive punctuated with dashes AND adjectives out of order]. We weren’t sure how many apples we actually needed to pick to make 3 gallons of cider, so we picked and picked until we had all of our bags full of apples.

Once we thought we had enough apples to make cider, we went down to the place that had the apple-cider-making-machines: a shed [Appositive punctuated with a colon].  It was really cool because we had to provide our own gallon jugs as well as pick our own apples; it felt so authentic.The apple-cider-making-machine (dubbed by me), was this tall, wooden thing. It’s hard to explain, but I added a picture in case you needed a visual. We had to put the apples into a grinder, and then had to grind them all into tiny little pieces. After they were grounded up, the apple pieces were ready to be juiced. The grounds of the apples were in a mesh bag that was inside of a barrel. We put the lid on the barrel and pushed it down as far as we could, and before we knew it, three gallons of cider were trickling out of it.

After spinning the wheel of the grinder for so long, all of our arms were exhausted, and we were ready for our reward of freshly juiced cider. [Past participle phrase]. I have to tell you, this cider was the best cider I have ever had. We paid, said our “thank you’s” to the family who ran the orchard, and headed back home. Of course we were all hungry, so we stopped for lunch at Cougar Country, the best burger place in Pullman, and gorged ourselves with a delicious lunch after a fun day of apple picking. [Appositive punctuated with commas].

2 comments:

  1. Hey Jordan! Your weekend of apple picking and cider making sound amazing. I'm actually a bit jealous! Also, thanks for posting some photos for visual reference! Anyways, all of the POWS which you worked into your blog seem great, but I'll go through them in general to be thorough.

    Your appositives set off by dashes and commas work well. I like the way you used the dashes. The appositive set off with parentheses seems to work (at least to me) because it's identifying/giving detail to WHICH weekend you're talking about. Though, personally I would adjust your appositive so maybe in the parentheses it says something like, "the weekend before Dad's Weekend." Your past participle and adjectives out of order look great!

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  2. Appositives punctuated 4 ways:
    YES--1 set off by parenthesis
    YES--1 set off by dashes
    YES--1 set off by colon
    YES—1 set off by commas

    OKAY--1 Participial Phrase— either past or present participle okay, but remember that this is a brush stroke added onto a main sentence, which means that if your participle is part of the main verb, it's not a brush stroke. (that "after" makes this a prepositional phrase)
    The apple-cider-making-machine (dubbed by me), <<this was a past participial phrase. Fyi.

    YES--1 example Adjectives Out-Of-Order

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