EF5/6 Review

Short course - five weeks
80 hours, regular course 100+hrs

-very few stories, all non-fiction, didn't do any fiction, no poetry

- FOCUS - lots of good work on sentences
simple
compound
complex

-clarify, separate sentence styles, a little bit clearer, maybe some things are a lot clearer


SIMPLE SENTENCE- one independent clause
SV subject verb, subject predicate
SSV
SVV
SSVV
SVVV
interrogative sentence  ?
imperative

COMPOUND SENTENCES
, FANBOYS , SOBA High frequency words
, so   , or   , but   , and
"I like cats, and she likes cats, too."
"I like cats. And she likes cats, too." Casual, not great for academic, not a good choice for school XXX

Commas are very personal- some people use them a lot, and some people use them sparingly.

SV, and SV.  This style will get you through college.
SV and SV. No seatbelt. Dangerous.

SV; SV. semicolon
, so = ;
, or = ;
, but = ;
, and = ;

**Semicolon real power is the TRANS words
; TRANS,
; therefore,
; however,
; on the other hand,
; moreover,
; next,
; regardless,
; also,

It is cloudy and cool today; therefore, she is going to paint her house.
It is cloudy and cool today; therefore, she is going to paint her house. 1 COMPOUND

It is cloudy and cool today. Therefore, she is going to paint her house. 2 SIMPLES

You can choose whatever you want.



COMPLEX SENTENCES
**adverb clause
because if when
since
even though
after
while

Tricky thing - comma or no comma

The cat stays indoors when it rains.
When it rains, the cat stays indoors.

its rains XXX

it rains

it's raining

it's rainy

**adjective clause

that which who

My sister who is a nurse lives in Ottawa.
The watch which/that my mother gave me is made of gold.
which - unique or special

**noun clauses
that why how
VERBS - inside your mind
think, feel, remember, know, understand, believe, trust, forget, get (understand), imagine 

"I trust that you will pay me back."
"She gets why you are angry at her."
"I get it."

ACTION - say, see, shout, yell, whisper, holler. tell, roar, tell a lie, lied
"Maria lied that she was busy today."
"Sarah whispered that she heard an animal in the woods."

breathe (v) You breathe fresh air.
breath (n) You take a breath.

chat - chew the fat

Tool box - 

"We were talking about nothing."


To put all of this into practice - SENTENCE COMBINING
#1 way in my opinion to improve the details of your sentence writing

Business letters

Paragraphs

Essays

Literary Terms

Idioms

Grammar points-
sentence fragments - frags
run-on sentences - RO
parallelism - par


We didn't waste our life. We didn't let the grass grow under our feet.

I enjoyed it. I hope you did too.