TEMPORAL AND SPACIAL

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Temporal and spacial references in the texts are not easy to determine because most of them doesn’t have any, or at least just present one reference only. I will try to make it possible to establish both reference in each of them, but I can anticipate, after reading the texts that just temporal references will be much more satisfied.

MERPY’S BAD MOOD

Spacial: I dare saying that the action takes place firstly in the house, “whe merpy woke up” “no hot water” “she spilled the milk” “the dog ate her homework”..it seems to be happen inside her house for the moment, but later on when “she sees her friends saying good morning”, “they give her some flowers” the action is likely to happen outside the house, in the garden probably. And I can also say that she’s walking along the street away from her friends because at the end o the story says: “and she come back to them”.

Temporal: the time course seemed to be in Spring, the only reference we have is “a beautiful Spring day!” so we got two references: Spring season and the action is just a long day lasting.

THE STORY OF JEREMY DRAGONFLY AND SCHLOMO THE DOG!

Spacial: three special references are in this story, one in a doctor’s consultory “he goes to the doctor for a prescription”, later he appears in a shelter “he goes to a shelter to find a new friend” and finally, in the street “so off they go upon their way”.

Temporal: no much time references, but I would say the action takes all day long.

MERPY AND THE MONSTERS!

Spacial: her bedroom is clearly the space where the action happens in here, we have this evidences: “she looks underneath”, “she turns out the light” ,”go back to the wardrobe”, “I have school in the morning”, “Come share my pillow”.

Temporal: night time obviously, “the night stars” gives a clear evidence of the temporal references and we also can make an approximation saying that it lasts an hour or two before going to bed.

JEREMY DRAGONFLY

Spacial: it’s quite difficult her to assigned space but it seems to happen in the street while Jeremy is playing with his dog and having ideas of fun “He'd run around buzzing”,” wear funny costumes in the middle of town”,” They'd visit the moon”, “have picnics with aliens wearing pajamas”, “some cranky old boys told him he had to stop all of his games”.

Temporal: a day long, it doesn’t say anything more about but the omission of time utterances like “and the day before he went to…” makes us think on just a day, an evening long action.

JEREMY DRAGONFLY CATCHES THE ARTBUG

Spacial: no time references in this story, it just said that he went to the doctor and he is with his friends, not much.

Temporal: according to all things that happen here “He sneezed paintings and sculptures and musical scores”,” folks all around him said give it a rest!”, “he attempted to stop, and he found it a bore”,” he went to the doctor” up to here I would say the action takes one day, then when it’s said “And soon all his friends caught the bug too” it seems to have passed several days in which his friends got the artbug.

MERPY AND THE MOSNTERS GO SWIMMING

Spacial: they are presumed to be outdoors “Merpy and her friends sat around one day It was hot outside”,and then they decide to go swimming in a pool to refresh so the space change and now they remain in a swimming pool “We don't have school, let's go swim in a pool”, “I'm scared of the water”, “ The splash was so big it was like a typhoon”, later on the location of the boys change “And they went home, to sweet dreams of another fun day”.

Temporal: a day long too, “Till the sky turned to night” they seem to have spend the whole day in the swimming pool.

MERPY’S HALLOWEEN ADVENTURE

Spacial: the actions occurs inside a house “Were in for the day Waiting for visitors”, ”they knocked on the door”. They are clearly inside a house waiting for someone to knock on the door and have a big treat or trick.

Temporal: the key word Is Halloween day, so it’s a long day action.

THE MONSTER HOLIDAY

Spacial: no concrete space in her is noticed, they are celebrating a monster party and dressing up with costumes, so I can dare saying that they are indoors.

Temporal: Christmas time is the only data we can consider as a time reference, it can be considered also as an action lasting one day.

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