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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Sentence fragment and Run-on

A sentence become a fragment when it is incomplete
1- Is quick to notice other people’s faults.
2- Replies that they are not really good enough.
3- Threw them both out.
4- Is a perfectionist overcome by unimportant flaws.

A run-on sentence is...two or more sentences that run on together as one.
1- . Jules ran into the woods no one could find him for hours.
2- The reporters waited outside, the girl told her story inside the school.
3- The jacket was unusual it was made of satin and leather.
4- I want to mail this letter, I don’t have any postage stamps.

Friday, January 17, 2014

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Examples

Simple predicate
We look on in silence as the soldier draw closer to my family`s house.
I had wished i could get my hands on one of the soldier`s guns.

Subject
Al least all three of them are healthy enough to walk.
My mind wanders to the stash of stolen money that Tess and i have hidden.

Class notes

Simple predicate
*It Is made up of the fewest word needed. 
Exchange nouns of pronoun.
*Change the names or objects into (he, she, it, they)
Either/or Neither/nor
*The one that is closer is the one that take it. 
**Neither my dog nor my cats...
**Is the verb smell or smells the forest fire?