EF5/6 May 22

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See you at 1:30

Good afternoon.

Today’s agenda:

1. Review of sentence types so far

2. Begin adjective clauses

3. Test – paragraph about “Roses Sing on New Snow”

4. Homework Read webpage about Rosa Parks 

https://www.biography.com/activist/rosa-parks

We’ll get started at 1:30

We are finishing our fourth week of our nine-week course.

Classes will continue to be held online for the foreseeable future. Summer classes will be help online.

For September, nobody knows yet.

As soon as I know, I will let you know.

foresee – predict, make a good guess about the future

K-12 , Ad Ed – different systems

I would rather be in school. I like to see my students. The students like to see each other. We can build some good relationships.

Today’s picture is from The Northwest Territories.

SENTENCE TYPES, so far

* Simple

one-part sentence

It is cloudy today.

* Compound

It is cloudy today, but it is supposed to be partly sunny tomorrow.

, FANBOYS for and nor but or yet so  - Not commonly used

If you use ‘for’, ‘nor’ and ‘yet’, it will like you are not a native speaker.

, SOBA

; semicolon

; TRANS,   ; however,    ;therfore,

TRANS = transitional words and phrases

* Complex

- adverb clauses

because if when while since after before

- adjective clauses (start today)

- noun clauses (next week)

** We have to review this all the time. We cannot forget about it. it is very important. It is the foundation of all of our writing. **

adjective clauses

Butter, who is five years old, is a good dog.

who is five years old adjective clause

who - people

that – everything, people who you don’t know (not very polite-sounding), and things

which – special things, unique things that are not alive

Your sister who is a nurse is very kind.

There’s a lot to adjective clauses. I will go step by step.

Maria bought a phone that has a very good camera.

The man that I was talking to is my friend. 

‘That’ doesn’t sound friendly.  ‘Who’ sounds better.

adjective clause has a subject and verb

clause – subject and a verb

which – special things

The Subway sandwich that/which I ate was delicious.

Was the sandwich something special?

The diamond ring that/which your grandmother left for you is beautiful.

Is the ring special?

Good rule of thumb: ‘that’ is for ordinary things; ‘which’ is for special things

whom – You probably studies this. THE TRUTH: We don’t use it. Forget it. Nobody uses it. Forget it!

Are you interested in sounding like a grammar book, or are you interested in sounding like a English speaker?

whom

Very formal “The woman to whom I was speaking is my sister.”

Nobody talks like this.

“The woman to whom who I was speaking to is my sister.” Very natural-sounding

The word ‘whom’ is usually used if you are writing a letter, and you don’t know who you are writing to.

Dear government:

To whom it may concern:  (this is really the only time you need to use ‘whom’)

Dogs choose their alpha.  ‘Alpha’ means the #1 dog in the pack.

who that which whom

We’ll continue on Monday with this.

Write a paragraph on the following topic.

(150-200w)

Email it to me as an attachment by 3:00 pm

 “Why do you think Maylin argued with the governor?”

Do not give me a plot summary.