Grammar Review

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Grammar Review

• Writing Effective Sentences
• Punctuation Paranoia
• Pesky Pronoun Problems
• Passive Voice vs. Active Voice

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Sentence Problems

• Run-on Sentence
• Comma Splice or fused sentence
• Fragment Sentence
• Bad construction, mixed construction
• Faulty subordination
• Short choppy sentences
• Sentences that dont say much

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Run-On Sentence two independent clauses that run
together

• The devastation from the hurricane challenges
  survivors to keep their families together many
  families have been separated, perhaps forever.

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The Comma Splice or Fused Sentence

• The devastation from the hurricane challenges
  survivors to keep their families together, many
  families have been separated, perhaps forever.

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Mixed Construction

• In the whole-word method children learn to
  recognize words rather than by the phonics method
  in which they learn to sound out letters and
  groups of letters.

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Faulty Subordination

• Although the United States is one of the
  wealthiest nations in the world, but almost 20
  percent of our children live in poverty

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Short, choppy Sentences

• The hurricane devastation was great. It did a
  lot of damage. Families may never get back
  together. Maybe never.

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Wordy, clumsy, awkward sentences

• The devastation from the hurricane was really
  bad, and many of the survivors will be challenged
  the most by trying to find the family members
  that got lost during the storm, and maybe many of
  them wont ever be able to find their loved ones
  again.

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Overcoming Punctuation Paranoia

• Comma Splices and fused sentences
• Learn to recognize sentence patterns in order to
  determine how to punctuate the sentence properly
• Learn to recognize conjunctions subordinating
  conjunctions, coordinating conjunctions.
  conjunctive adverbs, correlative conjunctions
• Learn 4 sentence types, independent and dependent
  clauses, and phrases
• Master 13 comma rules use semicolons colons ()

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Pesky Pronouns

• Pronoun Agreement
• Pronoun Reference
• Using 2nd person
• Learning Pronoun Case
• Subjective I, he, she, you, they, who
• Objective him, her, them, whom
• Possessive his, hers, theirs, ours, mine

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Passive Voice vs Active To Be or Not to Be

• Active voice the subject of the sentence acts
  The hurricane devastated three southern states.
• Passive voice the subject of the sentence is
  active upon Three southern states were
  devastated by the hurricane.

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Verbs Have two Voices

• Passive Voice has 1 verb
• To Be
• Is
• Am
• Are
• Was
• Were
• Been
• Being

• Active Voice many verbs, all verbs that DO
  something
• Run
• Complain
• Study
• Aim
• Understand