3-paragraph narrative (story) about a character who experiences a hurricane firsthand.

 Its a rainy July day  here in Panama City, Florida. Just yesterday is was a bright and sunny day. The news says there's a chance of a hurricane, which wouldn't surprise me, and they are still making us go to school.

 On my way to school I was struggling to keep walking because the wind was so strong. When I got inside the school they made us all rush into the safe room. I overheard one of the teachers saying we should't even us came today.

Suddenly, all the lights went out and the teachers turned their flashlights on. They told us not to panic but what help could that do. A few hours pass by and we're still stuck in this room. This is one bad hurricane.

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

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