Identifying Sentence Errors, Improving Sentences and Improving Paragraphs
The following site gives online examples and practice quizzes on many aspects of good grammar:
Grammar Site
The following link is to a site that provides practice tests
Username: tarasalvador@yahoo.com
Password: jordan
Sadlier-Oxford
Today:
Define the following common sentence error topics:
- Subject-verb agreement - verb forms or tense
- Idioms - Word choice (i.e., accept vs except)
- Pronoun-antecedent agreement
- Comparisons - Pronoun choice
- Adjectives and adverbs - Double negatives
- Parallel construction
Wednesday 7-15-09
Define the following topics commonly tested in Improving Sentences:
Run-on sentences
Modifiers
subordination/coordination
subject-verb agreement
sentence fragments
parallelism
redundancy or wordiness
verb forms and tenses
pronouns
****any duplicates from the list of sentence error topics do not need redefining**
Please see the links located under Additional Resources - several good links for grammar and sentence writing have been added
Once this is completed please go to the Sadlier-Oxford site and choose the student center from here choose Grammar workshop then choose green level and choose unit 1.
7/28/09:
Please visit FREERICE.COM
On this site you will define words while helping provide food for poor countries.
Add words you don't know to your own vocab lists
Pay attention to how you decipher the meaning of words you don't know
Are you looking for the root word?
We will finish the Grammar Packet today
