Locating Subjects and Verbs in Simple Sentences
Directions: Example: Most people pay little if any attention to buttons stitched onto a shirt front.
Subjects and Verbs in Simple Sentences
1. However, buttons designed for Hawaiian clothing during the decade of the 30s would have been difficult to overlook. |
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2. With more than 100 Hawaiian motifs to choose from, consumers must have had a field day in selecting or simply admiring store-bought shirts with these decorative embellishments. |
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3. In 1935, the Eastman Kodak store located near the Beach at Waikiki offered a large assortment of coconut buttons for sale. |
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4. The reasonably priced artifacts used to adorn Hawaiian shirts and dresses came in many different sizes and styles. |
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5. But who were the people responsible for manufacturing these highly prized buttons? |
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6. The textile historian, Nancy Schiffer, talks about original buttons playing an important role in the development of Hawaiian shirt styles. |
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7. Some of the earliest buttons were made out of wood, colored plastics, or machine stamped metal. |
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8. Others made use of the shiny substance found in oyster shells. |
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9. Plaited strips of fiber taken from coconut husks and flat or carved segments of coconut shells were also materials selected by some of the best designers. |
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10. A metal flower head and a simulated basket weave pattern on a flat metal disc were two of the many designs found on buttons with holes on the backside. |
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11. Some unusual plastic buttons were painted to look just like bamboo. |
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12. Has all of this information about shirt buttons whetted your appetite to know more about the making of buttons? |
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13. Braided fabric and "Chinese style" buttons are specially crafted button adornments. |
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14. The story of Dorothy Shimabukuro, a worker in the button-making industry, sheds some light on the subject. |
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15. Mrs. Shimabukuro made buttons every evening within the confines of her home. |
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16. During the daytime, she assembled the materials for the intricate Chinese buttons to be made that night. |
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17. As a worker for Hawaii's garment industry, she was expected to make 600 buttons in a single evening and 10,000 buttons in the space of one month. |
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18. However, that is just the beginning of her story. |
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19. For like 23 of her other male and female colleagues working independently in their own homes, Mrs. Shimabukuro was blind and could not see. |
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20. Since 1957, workers like her were assigned by the Department of Social Services to work as subcontractors for the Hawaiian garment industry. |
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21. Each afternoon, clothing manufacturers would schedule a woman to deliver strips of bias fabric, cut from partially sewn garments, to button makers to be worked with that night. |
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22. At eight o'clock the next morning, the delivery lady would collect the finished buttons from each home on her route and bring them back to the garment factory. |
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23. Because of the need to collect strips of material left over from pattern pieces cut from bolts of cloth on a particular day, the rigid pick-up and delivery schedule was precisely adhered to. |
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24. For the cloth-covered buttons had to be sewn onto nearly completed garments prior to the addition of finishing touches. |
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25. Rather than being just a means of fastening one side of a shirt or a dress front to the other, a button is a relic with a history of its own. |
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