The orange glows. The beak is hooked. It craves flesh. Flesh is bloody. Birds swallow flesh.
Birds drink blood.
I call the bird-skull alive. Mark the parts of each sentence as they represent the basic sentence pattern formulae. Don't write any compound or complex sentences. In other words, for the moment, keep your sentences about as simple as the first example for each of the sentence patterns above. We will deal with compound and complex sentences later in the semester.