Study Unit Writing Sentences and Paragraphs Preview Preview In this study unit, you’ll take all the information and skills you’ve acquired so far and use them to practice writing complete, correct sentences and well-organized, coherent paragraphs. You have the tools—the parts of speech; correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization; and good grammar— to construct and use a variety of sentence types. You’ve studied the uses of modifiers, tone, and form, so you can reach the
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An analogy can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar. Analogies can also make writing more vivid, imaginative, or intellectually engaging. antecedent – The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. The AP language exam occasionally asks for the antecedent of a given pronoun in a long, complex sentence or in a group of sentences. A question from the 2001 AP test as an
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A. Underline the adjective clause in each sentence. Circle the noun or the pronoun that the adjective clause describes. 1. He doesn't like anything that has olives in it. 2. They will call someone who can help them. 3. That's something that I find hard to believe. 4. It's hard to believe anything that she says. 5. You should ask someone who knows how to do it. 6. There is nothing that you can do. 7. Nothing that I did worked. 8. Everyone who attended the party liked the cake. 9. There's
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Question 1: Chapter 8, #1 (adapted) Are the following clauses grammatically positive or negative? Give evidence for your answers. i. I can do nothing to help you. Positive Negative Evidence: ____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ ii. We finished the job in no time. Positive Negative Evidence: ____________________________________________________________________ _____
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2/20/13 Clauses and Phrases Clauses and Phrases To understand punctuation, it is helpful to understand the difference between a phrase and a clause. I. A phrase is a collection of words that may have nouns or verbals, but it does not have a subject doing a verb. The following are examples of phrases: leaving behind the dog smashing into a fence before the first test after the devastation between ignorance and intelligence broken into thousands of pieces because of her glittering
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3 3. IDENTIFICATION OF THE COMPLEX SENTENCES 4 4. TYPES OF COMPLEX SENTENCES 6 5. FINITE CLAUSE 7 5.1 Nominal clause 7 5.2 Adjectival clause 11 5.3 Adverbial clause 13 6. NON-FINITE CLAUSE 16 6.1 Gerund 16 6.2 Infinitive 17 6.3 Participles 18 7. Verbless clause 19 8. CONCLUSION 20 REFERENCES 22 COMPLEX SENTENCES 1. INTRODUCTION The study of sentence structure is called syntax, and because there is so
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r eHIT PARADE OF ERRORS IN GRAMMAR, PUNCTUATION, AND STYLE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. lack of agreement sentence fragments overly-long sentences overuse of passive voice faulty parallelism vague pronouns dangling modifiers squinting modifiers mixed or dead metaphors faulty word choice / faulty diction wordiness comma splices misuse of comma, semicolon, colon 1. a. FAULTY AGREEMENT Subjects and verbs must agree in number. Recent discoveries about the weather reveals that
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[pic] Assignment 1 Student name: Natalie-Holly Smith Tutor: S Milford / J Pritchard |Date Issued: 10/10/14 |Submission Date: | |Assessment Date: |Resubmission Date: | Criteria Covered: |P1 |Identify how two organisations plan recruitment
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Independent clause: are complete sentences and can stand on it’s own Example of an independent clause: The plant on the front porch died. * Dependent clause: is a group of words with a subject and a verb. It does not express a complete thought so it is not a sentence and can’t stand-alone. Example of an dependent clause: If I don’t come by noon. * How to separate a sentence into 2 sentences (3 ways) 1. Add a comma + coordinating conjunction 2. Semicolon 3. Make 1 independent clause into a
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Skye McNally ENG 101 (11:00) Dr. Hubbard 11/2/17 Comma Comma Comma What? Comma Comma, Comma Comma Chameleon a chapter in Mary Norris book between you and me: The Confessions of a Comma Queen. In this chapter I’m going to analyze the meaning and give you a clear understanding of the text. This whole chapter discusses how we use commas and the many ways we use and misuse them. Some ways we may misuse them would be using them to make sentence fragments or just placing a comma in the wrong place. In
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