Hi everyone,
We’ll get
started at 7.
Today, we’ll
talk about these topics:
1. sentence fragments
2. run-on sentences
3. comma splices
April term –
April-June – You can register for 4th quarter.
This is our
final week. We will have a week break between terms.
Courses
Start April 27th and End June 26th, 2020
I will be
teaching EF3/4 and EF5/6 in the morning and afternoon.
I will mark
your final essay and do my report card on Friday, April 17th. I will
email you your final mark on Friday.
Students
will not be going to SHEC to pick up report cards.
This week, I
will ask you to write one more essay. That’s it for my expectations.
You still
have work for Jacquie. She will keep updated about that.
TYPICAL ERROR
Second reason
that family is most important for me is even,
I am not living with them they still help me financially. XXX
The second reason that family is most important for me
is even though I am not living with them, they still help me financially.
complex sentences – adverb clauses
even – even though
We are going to go to the park even though it is raining.
Even though it is raining, we are going to go to the
park.
My family help me to come to Canada by
coming to Canada whole my life have changed. XXX RUN-ON SENTENCES
PARTIALLY FIXED
My family help me to come to Canada. By
coming to Canada whole my life have changed.
My family help me to come to Canada; by
coming to Canada whole my life have changed.
Look at the subject and the verb. Do they agree?
Look at the verb tense- present, past, future?
My family helped me to come to Canada. By coming to
Canada, my whole life has changed.
My family helped me to come to Canada; by
coming to Canada, my life has changed.
One day I get mad and say something
unnecessary they forgive me and they try to
understand me. XXX RUN-ON SENTENCE
PARTIALLY FIXED
One day I get mad and say something
unnecessary. They forgive me and they try to
understand me.
One day I get mad and say something
unnecessary; they forgive me and they try to understand
me.
Sometimes/Some days I get mad and say
something unnecessary rude/impolite. They
forgive me and they try to understand me. They forgive me, and
they try to understand me.
This is the self-editing work that you have to learn
how to do.
No teacher is going to fix and rewrite all of these
errors.
That is editing work, and it takes hours to do.
LET’S FIX THIS UP AND MAKE IT BETTER
Listen to the news become my daily things to do. The
thing that I want to be as usual is keeping my kids stay their routine like school schedule.
SUBJECT + VERB
Listening
to the news has become my daily thing to
do activity/routine.
listening – gerund (singular)
had become – present perfect
The thing that I want to be as usual is keeping
my kids stay their routine like school schedule.
The thing that I want to do as usual is keeping
my kids on their routine, such as their school schedule.
NATURAL SOUNDING EXAMPLE
What is most important for me is to keep things as normal as possible; I make
my kids stay on their usual everyday routine, especially their school schedule.
What is most important for me is a noun clause.
The most important thing for me is to keep things my kids’ routines as
normal as possible.
Self-editing
tip #1: The secret here is to remember the three sentence types: SIMPLE,
COMPOUND, COMPLEX.
Every
sentence that you write has to be one of those.
Self-editing
tip #2: Check your verbs!
verb tense –
Is it past, present or future?
verb form- Is
it an English verb?
I am be living
in Canada. I am live in Canada. vf
Check every
sentence. Check every verb. Make sure it’s as good as you get it.
You can do
this! It takes time and steady work. No teacher can do that for you. You have
to do the work.
Keep going.
You can do this. You will continue to get better.
HOMEWORK:
Write a
short essay (250-300 words)
Check every
sentence. Check your verbs.
Make it as
good as you can.
Try to do
your best with the grammar.
Send it to
me by Thursday midnight.
Choose one:
“A Favourite
Childhood Memory”
“My Dream
for the Future”
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