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Joke # 2: Answer Key for Level 1
Current technology makes it extremely difficult to draw lines, etc. from word to word in web documents. In Level One, I have therefore indicated words modified by prepositional phrases in following brackets. These brackets will be deleted in the answer keys to subsequent levels.
 
 
     A home-economics teacher was trying to encourage her 

third-graders to try new foods. The teacher had a piece {of 

venison,} [Adjective to "piece"] which she cut up {into little 

squares.} [Adverb to "cut up"]  She placed the pieces {on 

spoons} [Adverb to "placed"]  and gave them {to each} [Adverb 

to "gave"]  {of the children.} [Adjective to "each"]

     "Now, boys and girls, the game we're going to play today 

is to taste this new food, and to guess the name {of the 

animal} [Adjective to "name"] {from which} [Adverb to "came"]

this meat came," the teacher said. "I'll give you

a hint -- it's a name that sometimes your mommy calls

your daddy when he comes home {from the office."} [Adverb

to "comes"]

     There was a long pause. Finally a youngster {in the 

back}  [Adjective to "yongster"] exclaimed, "Don't eat it!"
 

Executive SpeechWriter Newsletter, 
in Readers Digest, Feb, 93. 57
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Progress:
Total Words = 111 Words %
L1: In Prep Phrases  23  21

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