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Brookly Melissa Liz Courtney

Published on Nov 24, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

GRAMMAR RULES

BROOKLY, LIZ, MELISSA, COURTNEY
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Less is More


Go with the shortest answer unless the shortest is horrible.

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Honor thy commas


Exaggerate the pause and the inflection change

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A Full Sentence: Has three Components


a. A subject
b. A verb
c. A complete thought

Subject Verb Agreements


Subjects agree with their verbs in number. (Singular or plural)

Contractions


1. Always say both words
2. Contractions are less formal, less emphatic and less urgent

Semicolon, colons, and dashes


1. (;) equals bracketed by two full sentences
2. (:) equals a full sentence proceeds the colon
3. (-) equals A comma or colon

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Difference between words


1. Principal = pal while principles = heartfelt values
2. Effect = noun while affect = verb

How to put two sentences into one sentence



1. Use a semicolon
2. Use (,) + and

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Extra information has commas or dashes around it



Ex: Bob, the fast runner, jogged in for the touchdown.

Parallelism



Stay with the trend within the sentence

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