Inspection Day at the Sentence Factory
The Sentence Factory has a problem: the predicates are coming out empty. Lucy's on her way, eventually. Fill in the missing linking verbs, predicate nominatives, and predicate adjectives, and get the line moving again.
Lucy's still at the factory, in no particular hurry. Finish up and she'll read the whole inspection back, nice and even.
Your story is ready. Here is what Lucy read.
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The Sentence Factory summoned Lucy on a Monday, which amused her, since she had never once hurried to an emergency. Sentences kept rolling off the line with empty predicates, and the floor supervisor frantic about the schedule.
Lucy strolled in at noon and read the first unfinished sentence on the belt. It needed a predicate nominative, so she linked one in: "Gramma's chili a ." The next one wanted a predicate adjective instead: "The conveyor belt today."
The supervisor paced. Lucy did not. "Every subject until you link it to something," she said. "Let's just sit with that for a minute."
By two o'clock the line hummed. The chili sentence a classic. The belt again. Even the supervisor at last.
Lucy signed the inspection form and smiled. "The factory = ," she said, and strolled home.
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