Heal these sentences

Senior Seminar

After Break

Grammar Test

Clause has a subject and verb:

Subject > verb <object

John > threw < a tantrum.

She returned only the most important calls, the rest could wait.  Mail piled up and memos went unread. This meeting today determined her future, it could make her career and bolster her status in the office. Or the opposite.  When the razor-thin office manager finally called her into the back office, she sensed a trap, it was too late to back out.  Afterward, she hid in the supply closet.  She sobbed and sobbed, everyone could hear.  Everyone but the one person who needed to hear them; her mother. 

She awoke with her head on her mothers stomach to the grumbling voice of her doctor.  Soft and smooth but with a down to business overtone.  Her face froze, she pretended to sleep.  But the news was bad.  It turns out, Danielle was very sick.  Everyone knew.  How could her mother have been hiding this for so long?  Cue tears, tears.  It was a very sad moment.

Later, Danielle dashed from one end of the room to the other, looking for her favorite pants. The ones that were most comfortable, the pants she felt she could do anything in.  “Where are my pants, I can’t go to work without my pants.” Once she found them, she would circle the track all afternoon, never wanting to leave.  Never wanting to stop running.  She loved to run.  It gave her a thrill, it made her smile, it gave her purpose, provided a certain nobility. When she thought about graduating, however, her smile quickly evaporated, she blamed it on the grueling years of college, there was one more semester left.

Obligatory pictures everywhere: her first date, and of the family vacation. Memories: Danielle, I have a question for you, can you please step into my office for a minute? I am very concerned about your work record, it seems to me you are almost never on time to work, this has to STOP!  Danielle tries to play it calm and nods and says, “yeah, sure, that’s true”! She did not mind this for it was a peaceful part of her day.  A time where she can relax and not be afraid, a time when she could reflect on her life and what it had become.  She clenched her eyes and folded her arms across her chest tightly, maybe she’ll think I am taking a sudden nap or sleeping?