Gardening is a favorite pastime of millions of Americans. They spend countless amounts of time and money to beautify their surroundings. Some people plant only low-maintenance perennial gardens. (Perennials are plants that grow year after year.) Others enjoy the wide variety of annual plants. (Annuals live for one season only.) Trees and shrubs are more permanent additions to the landscape. These long-lasting plants must be chosen carefully. They will thrive if planted in the proper location and given the right care.

The writer of this paragraph decided to use only declarative sentences with the traditional word order of subject before the verb. Rewrite the paragraph, this time using a variety of kinds of sentences, including those arranged in the traditional order of subject before verb and at least two in which the verb comes before the subject. Use an additional piece of paper if necessary.

Have you ever seen a gardening show on TV? Always perfect are the gardens, filled with masses of gorgeous flowers. Not so is my garden. Flowers have I, and also plenty of hungry bugs and nasty fungi. My favorite snacks of the borers are my iris corms. There are gourmet rabbits who nibble on the tulips. Adept at moving the daffodil bulbs are the squirrels. Tunneling under them, chipmunks uproot the annuals. My garden definitely is not a showplace is a wildlife deli.

B. Revising Using a Variety of Sentence Orders The writer of this paragraph decided to use both traditional word order of subject before verb and a less traditional inverted sentence order. Rewrite the paragraph, this time using a variety of sentence orders to make it more understandable and pleasing to the reader