Some trees and shrubs live thousands of years.

It rained, but we marched in the parade anyway.

Mr. Edwards will lead the singing, for Ms. Cruz is ill.

My aunts, uncles, and cousins from Costa Rica visited us

last summer.

I had worked hard all morning, and I still had not finished

the job by lunchtime.

Abe peeled and chopped all of the onions and dumped

them into a huge pot.

All ravens are crows, but not all crows are ravens.

Chippewa and Ojibwa are two names for the same

American Indian people.

I liked this movie best; it was the most exciting one.

Jaleel learned several African folk takes and recited them.

Racoons and rats steal our garbage as the dogs bark at them from inside the house.

The school bus stopped suddenly, but no one was hurt.

The dance committee has chosen a Hawaiian theme, so the volunteers will decorate the gym with flowers and greenery while Todd finds the right music.

Luis Gonzalez stepped up to the plate, and the crowd roared enthusiastically.

These men escaped the ice in small boats, and they landed on Elephant Island, where they lived in a makeshift camp.

Finally, the ice crushed the ship, and Shakleton and his men were stranded on the ice for more than five months.

Before the expedition could land, Shackleton's ship, The Endurance, was trapped in the ice of the Weddell Sea for ten months.

Shackleton intended to cross Antarctica, which no one else had ever crossed before.

He wanted to be the first man to reach the South Pole, and in 1908, he led a party that came within ninety-seven miles of the pole.