You never start a sentence with a preposition, my teacher told me.

There are times you may not understand how to do certain things. With patience and determination, however, you will find a way. The key is to not give up. If you give up, you lost the chance to discover what you may have been able to achiev

When speaking in front of people, body language is very important. You should look people in the eyes, but not stare. You should not simply look down at your notes. You should also stand up straight, not slouch.

“Hurray!” Little Annie said, smiling happily as she skipped down the road.

Georgencia felt her heart beating in her chest like a drum. She saw the car skid across the road and it was headed right for her. For a second she couldn't move. Finally, she lunged to the right side of the road and fell into the grass.

"Here's the deal," she said to me. "I'll let you come in from the cold if you show me how you shoot that bow and arrow." "This?" I said, holding it up. "It's easy. But it takes practice." "I have all the patience in the world," she said.

"Oh, no!" I heard my mother scream when I woke up that morning. There was a stink of burnt eggs and bacon in the air. "I've burnt breakfast!" she yelled. I went into the kitchen and walked into a cloud of black smoke.

Harry Potter is really the character you should be most impressed by. Not only does he overcome hardship - having to deal with two foster parents who clearly don't love him - he even has to find out what happened to his own dead father.

He didn't know where to run, so he just hid behind a barrel. He could hear them looking for him, heard the men talking in angry voices. He was so scared he was afraid to breathe. "I heard him run around this way," said the big man.

The girl was hungry. She could feel the aches in her belly, like some crab was in there. She had been on the road for two weeks and knew she had to find something to eat. She found a field and some apple trees. She ran for them.

Rainbow was a Yorkie and she got lost in the woods on Halloween. Becky, her owner, a twelve-year-old girl, searched the house, under her bed, the garage, but couldn't find her. Mrs. Thompson, her neighbor, helped look, too.

But Ender knew, even as he thought it, that Peter wouldn't leave him alone. There was something in Peter's eyes, when he was in his mad mood, and whenever Ender saw that look, that glint, he knew that Peter would not leave him alone.