Technique Lesson: Sentence Variety Hacker 117 - 119 When a rough draft is filled with too many same-sounding sentences‚ try to inject some variety – as long as you can do so without sacrificing clarity or ease of reading. Grammar checkers are of little help with sentence variety. It takes a human ear to know when and why sentence variety is needed. 1. Use a variety of sentence structures: • A writer should not rely too heavily on simple sentences and compound sentences‚ for the effect
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that at times may cause them to act more irrationally and do things that they probably would not do if they were not in a certain environment or provoked by certain people and conditions. For example an individual with severe ADD (Attention deficit Disorder) or ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder). People with these types of disorders tend to be more impulsive than the majority of people without a disorder and in certain circumstances may be influenced or provoked to offend and do things while
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Coordination in the Compound Sentence • Coordination puts equal value or significance on two or more parts of a sentence • Coordination can be used to join sentences‚ phrases words and even independent clauses. • When coordination is used to combine two sentences it creates a compound sentence. • Coordination conjunctions -And‚ but‚ or nor‚ for‚ so‚ yet • Correlative conjunctions -Not only‚ but also‚ either or‚ just as….so also • A semicolon can also be used to connect the sentences. • A semi colon
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video called Kanzi and Novel Sentences it is clear that Kanzi does understand what is being asked of him. He is able to follow commands that are said by his trainer‚ which demonstrates an ability to comprehend language as seen within the video. The reasoning why this video can be used as evidence that Kanzi does comprehend language is the fact the trainer is saying new or novel sentences. Meaning that Kanzi has never heard these words put together in those sentences. Kanzi is able to take the action
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Soldier Sentenced to death for Fort Hood shooting A military jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for a 2009 shooting in Fort Hood‚ Texas. A death sentence for an army personal hardly ever happens. Maj. Nidal Hasan walked into a medical building where army soldiers were getting medical check-ups and shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ which means in Arabic for “God is great!.” He then opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. He killed thirteen army men and women that day and injured over 30. When police
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The Rotter Incomplete Sentences Black (RISB) is a projective method of studying personality in a semi-structured scoring technique (Rotter‚ Lah‚ & Rafferty‚ n.d.). The RISB was originally used as means of screening large groups of soldiers to evaluate adjustment and fitness to return to duty and to obtain specific information for evaluation and treatment‚ however now it is primarily used to help guide initial clinical interviews (Corsini‚ 2010). The RISB is primarily used for individuals at the college
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and personality. Para 2 Topic Sentence: International student had a lost in confidence when they are speaking in English. Support 1：Students are afraid of making mistake when they are speaking English while they can speak fluently in their own language. Support 2: They will get nervous is using second language but more comfortable in speaking the first language. Support 3: The student will talk less in English than in their first language. Para 3 Topic Sentence: Student uses less gesture to
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Emphasis is given to the rhetorical structures of the argumentative essay. | Course outcomes | Learning Outcome | Domain: cognitive‚ affective‚ Psychomotor (skills) | Assessment technique | 1. Determine and formulate a topic‚ main idea sentence and major supporting details of a paragraph. | Cognitive | Class discussion‚ text-book exercises‚ written exam | 2. Recognize Authors’ Writing Patterns | Cognitive | Class discussion‚ text-book exercises‚ written exam | 3. Determining
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students but also of teachers and townspeople. INTERJECTIONS • An interjection expresses emotion. • An interjection has NO GRAMMATICAL RELATION to the rest of the sentence. • An interjection is generally set off from the rest of the sentence by an exclamation point or by a comma or commas. • Exclamation points indicate strong emotion. • Commas indicate mild emotion. • Interjections are common in casual conversation. In writing
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in order to illustrate or demonstrate a point. The topic sentence should establish a contention which the author will set out to prove in the paragraph. example: Kahild’s family went on a fishing trip to Musandam. So what? What is the appeal? Fishing at Musandam proved to be an enjoyable outing For Khalid and his family. • This sentence sets out something to be proven in the paragraph and is more appealing
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