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A bee is crawling on Angela’s shirt.
Practice 22-3 Revising Sentences That
Begin with There is
Revise the following sentences to eliminate There is, There are, There
was, or There were.
1. There are flowers in window boxes at the front of the house.
2. In the morning, there was snow on the ground.
3. There is a lone goldfish in a bowl on a table by the wall.
4. There were fudgy fingerprints on the front of the white
refrigerator.
5. There was a wreath of fall leaves on the front door.
Sentences Beginning with It is
Sentences that begin with It is are, too often, stiff, passive-voice
nightmares. In some cases, fixing a sentence that begins with It is
requires only chopping off the beginning of the sentence. In other
