Good morning, everyone.
We will get started at 8:30.
Today’s agenda
1. Discuss optional replacement quiz to be held Thursday
2. Review March 29th midterm recommendations
3. Discuss process for registration
4. Review sentence types and common errors
5. Begin sentence combining
Easter Holiday – four-day weekend
April 2, 4 -Good Friday, Easter Monday - holidays
I don’t know which classes I will be teaching in Fourth Quarter. As soon as I find out, I will let you know.
** Optional replacement quiz
Email me today by 1PM if you would like to replace one of your quiz marks. No lates.
Email me with your name, class, time in the subject line.
Tell me which quiz you want to replace, e.g. Quiz#3
I have explained already how the replacement mark will work. If you don’t remember, go back and review the class blog.
You can do a replacement quiz on Thursday. The quiz will be a mix of sentence styles.
e.g. one simple, two compound, three complex
Sentence types: I hope you have kept up on the sentence work over the break.
*SIMPLE
SV
SVV
SSV
*COMPOUND
SV , SOBA SV.
SV ; TRANS, SV.
*COMPLEX
ADVERB CLAUSES
NOUN CLAUSES
ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
I expect you to be able to write these sentences.
If you can, great. If you can’t, better get to work.
Common errors:
-starting sentences with SOBA
so or but and
‘And then we went home.’ XXX, too casual for school
SOLUTIONS
‘Then we went home.’
‘After that, we went home.’
‘But it was too cold to swim.’ XXX, not good writing for school
SOLUTIONS
‘However, it was too cold to swim.’
‘We went to the beach, but it was too cold to swim.’
Do not begin sentences with SOBA (so or but and) in school writing. That is too casual for academic writing.
-comma splices CS
‘We went to the beach, it was too cold to swim.‘ CS
comma is not strong enough to join sentences
SOLUTIONS
‘We went to the beach, but it was too cold to swim.‘
‘We went to the beach; it was too cold to swim.‘
‘We went to the beach; however, it was too cold to swim.‘
-verb tenses and forms
You have to know your basic verbs in English.
Focus on the basic verb tenses
-simple present, simple past, simple future
-present continuous, past continuous, future continuous
-present perfect
There’s a lot of work to do. Slow steady daily work is required if you want to keep improving.
**
Sentence Combining
- most useful kind of sentence writing work
- practical
- uses all of the skills we have studies so far
- puts the grammar work into practice
-take several short sentences
-figure out what information is important in each of them
-combine them together into one longer sentence
simple example
e.g.
Kai plays soccer. KERNEL
Find new information in the other sentences. Avoid repetition.
He plays every day.
He plays with his friends.
They play at school.
Decide how you want to combine these elements.
simple? compound? complex?
Kai plays soccer.
every day.
with his friends.
at school.
SIMPLE
Kai plays soccer every day at school with his friends.
COMPOUND
Kai plays soccer every day with his friends, and they play at school.
COMPLEX
Kai plays soccer every day with his friends when they are at school.
You want to be able to write in several different sentence styles. That is out goal.
** For homework
At the Beach
1. The group met at the beach. KERNEL – centre, main sentence
They met at 10:00 a.m.
They met every day.
The beach was public.
The group met if it was sunny.
Decide how you would like to combine these elements:
The group met at the beach
at 10:00 a.m.
every day
public
if it was sunny
The group met at the public beach at 10:00 a.m. every day if it was sunny.
Every day, the group met at the public beach at 10:00 a.m. if it was sunny.
Every day if it was sunny, the group met at the public beach at 10:00 a.m..
Every day at 10:00 a.m., the group met at the public beach if it was sunny.
You can move the elements around to change the feel of the sentences. This is style more than grammar.
Which one sounds better? Which one reads better?
2. The beach was hot.
The beach was crowded.
The beach was exciting.
There were children.
There were adults.
There were clowns.
There were lifeguards.
3. Mr. Isaac sold ice cream.
It was packed in ice.
He was considered part of the beach.
The truck was small.
The truck was in the parking lot.
4. The teenagers lay in the sun.
They played volleyball.
The children swam.
The children waded.
The children ran in the sand.
They ran for the joy of running.
5. A group of clowns juggled.
They played with children.
The children were laughing.
The clowns gave out balloons.
The balloons were filled with helium.
6. The sand was white.
The white was glaring.
The sand emitted waves of heat.
The waves of heat blurred the water.
The water was beyond the beach.
The water was blue.
The blue was vibrant.
Try these for homework. We will discuss them tomorrow.
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