Friday, 27 May 2022

EF6-21 class- comma splices

 

Good morning, everyone.

We’ll get started at 11:00.

 

Registration for Summer will begin Wednesday, June 1

Midterm recommendations indicate which class you should reg for Summer

Midterm recs – based on Quizzes 1,2,3 and Tests 1,2 and Spoken so far

 

Today’s agenda:

 

Friday

·      Return Quiz#3

Edit and correct

Some of us are struggling with sentence types

SIMPLE

COMPOUND

COMPLEX

 

·      Continue paragraph work – opinion writing

Students read aloud

·      Do some more prepositions

·      Comma splices

 

Monday

·      Test#2- opinion paragraph

Two topics to choose form on Monday

1.    About Rosa Parks and/or Viola Desmond

2.    A general topic about life

 

·      Begin noun clauses

 

Tuesday

·      Midterm recommendations regarding Summer term – one-on-one meetings

Registration for Summer begins Wednesday, June 1.

I will be teaching English 11.

 

 

PARAGRAPH

Topic sentence

Supporting points

Concluding sentence

 

 

STEP 1

PLANNING

Get some ideas going. Get some vocab, key words, phrases

Write them down!

 

STEP 2

Write the sentences. SIMPLE   COMPOUND   COMPLEX

 

It will be a good challenge to write a paragraph on Monday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comma splices- two sentences connected with a comma

A comma is not strong enough to separate two sentences.

 

Jun likes ice cream, Dave likes chocolate. CS

 

Jun likes ice cream   JOIN   Dave likes chocolate

 

SIMPLE   COMPOUND   COMPLEX

SIMPLE Jun likes ice cream. Dave likes chocolate.

COMPOUND Jun likes ice cream, but Dave likes chocolate.

COMPOUND Jun likes ice cream, and Dave likes chocolate.

COMPOUND Jun likes ice cream; Dave likes chocolate.

COMPOUND Jun likes ice cream; however, Dave likes chocolate.

COMPLEX Although Jun likes ice cream, Dave likes chocolate.

COMPLEX Jun likes ice cream while Dave likes chocolate.

COMPLEX Oregon has no sales tax while British Columbia has GST and PST.

COMPOUND Many people think that marijuana should be legalized, but I disagree.

COMPOUND Many people think that marijuana should be legalized; however, I disagree.

COMPOUND Many people think that marijuana should be legalized; however, I disagree.

COMPOUND Many people think that marijuana should be legalized; nevertheless, I disagree.

COMPOUND Many people think that marijuana should be legalized; nevertheless, I disagree.

COMPLEX Although many people think that marijuana should be legalized, I disagree.

COMPLEX Many people think that marijuana should be legalized although I disagree.

 

Review and practice: SIMPLE   COMPOUND   COMPLEX

, SOBA

; TRANS,   however   therefore   on the other hand   moreover

 

COMPLEX SENTENCE- ADVERB CLAUSE   because   if   since   unless   although   when   while

 

 

Types of sentences:

Simple

Compound

Complex 1 adverb clauses   2 noun clauses   3 adjective clauses

 

Exciting opportunity!

 

Comma Splices

Email me some of the exercises. We can share them on Monday.

 

 

 

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