Writing Challenge; articles

I. Mechanics
A. Third person ­s forms.
Follow the rules in chapter 2, section II and add the third person ­s (or ­es) to these verbs:
lives, has, uses, burns, pays, cut, saws, shows, holds, carries, puts, tries, saves.

B. Review of capitalization and punctuation.
Mr. and Mrs. Kramer don’t live in town. They live in a farmhouse in Ver­mont. It’s cold in the winter, but it isn’t expensive to heat the farmhouse. They have many trees on their land, so they usually burn wood today. They’re cutting firewood for the winter. Next, they will put the logs on a large woodpile by the farmhouse. It’s not as expensive to live in the country but in the city it is. Everyone in the city has to pay for oil.

Mr. Kramer isn’t rich, but he has many things. He has ________ land, ________ trees, ___a_____ farmhouse, ____an____ oil heater, ________ oil, ____a____ fireplace, and ________ wood. He likes ________ work and he saves ________ money. He has ________ time to do ____a____ job well. He spends ________ winters and ________ summers with his wife in Vermont. They use ____a____ saw to cut ________ logs into ________ pieces, and then they put them in ____a____ woodpile.

Mary and Walter Kramer have ___a__ farmhouse. He built ___the__ farm­ house himself. Today they’re cutting _____ wood. They will put __the___ wood into ___a__ woodpile. ___The__ woodpile is next to ___the__ farmhouse. __The___ farm­ house has ___an__ oil heater and ___a__ fireplace. __The___ oil heater is expen­ sive, so they often use ___the__ fireplace. They have _____ trees on their land. They cut down __the___ trees and saw them into small pieces. They like to save _____ money this way. They can use ___the__ money for other things.