Transitional words and phrases (also put it in vocab:(
Here are the 9 words:
-Although
-Even though
-While
-Whereas
-Despite
-In spite of
-However
-On the other hand
-What’s more
I would like to improve in writingWhat I would like to improve is not specifically in writing but also can help me get better in a lot of things. What i want to do is train my ability to pass ideas and thoughts in my head into the book/assignment as sometimes i have trouble fitting or remembering ideas i had.
New grammar rules…
Punctuation:
- Quotes between quotations carry single quotation marks.
(e.g) “Yeah mom, what my teacher said was,’Kids, it is due tommorrow’, so don’t argue with me”.
- A hyphen (-) comes between two adjectives that come before a noun especially when they represent a single idea.
(e.g) a friendly-looking man.
- In business letters, colons go after the salutation especially if it uses a last name. In a friendly letter, a comma is used.
(e.g) Dear Mr. Hickey: … Dear Ms. Shawn,
Capitalization:
-You capitalize days of the week, names of the months, Holidays, but NOT seasons.
Grammar correct prepostion use poster
Game in Groups- Google Happy Wheels>User Made maps> the search preposition-Hunt
Cheat Sheet
Quiz #1 Run-ons, why such a common mistake???
In spanish there is no run-ons, by placing a comma a sentence can continue forever.
This causes the majority of run-ons problems in billingual middle schools, as children are used to this being ok. More about run-ons down below.
Quiz # 2Who, that, and which why do people have trouble with using these properly in a sentence???
Generally the problem is not knowing when to place who and that; which is more of another problem.
Let me show you:
Regular Person: The person that walks the dog.
Proper English Person: The person who walks the dog.
This is incorrect because that is supposed to be used for animals while who is used for people.
Quiz #3 Complex, Compound and Complex-Compound sentence
I see that kids who dont understand this concept might have problems with it; however it is not very difficult.
A complex sentence is a sentence that has an independent clause and a dependent clause which is a noun clause.
A compound sentence are two independent clauses in a sentence sepparated by a semi colon/ and or/ conjunction.
and finally a Complex-Compound Sentence is a sentence that contains two independent clauses sepparated by a semi-colon and two dependent clauses.
Run on Sentence
A run on sentence is when two or more independent clauses are joined together to form a sentence without the correct punctuation or conjunction.
Examples; semi-colonn ; semi colon and a conjunction ;however,
A compound-complex sentence is made from two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Example
1. Although I like to go fishing, I haven't had the time to go recently, and I haven't found anyone of my friends that want to go with me.
