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    The Speed Limit

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    zones(COMMA) we would have speed limits dropped even lower than what the state has posted. That is to increase safety to all of the workers on the road ways. There is nothing scarier than having a car whiz by you going over the speed limit(GOOD SENTENCE. "WHIZ" MAKES ME PICTURE IT) All it takes is a bad tire to give(BLOW) out while traveling over the speed limit for you to completely lose control of the vehicle(COMMA) and cause you to have a serious wreck. So(COMMA) there for(THEREFORE)(COMMA) I

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    The colony at Jamestown‚ the colonies at Plymouth‚ and the colony at Boston had different nature‚ goals‚ successes and failures. There was a cross of similarities and differences. One thing that remains obvious is each was looking for something that was lacking in their home land. There was a perception and a picture that each group had when they left their homelands. Arrival in the new would prove to be an alternate reality from that which was envisioned. The new reality still provided a challenge

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    Sir Gawain and Beowulf: Which is More Honorable? Heroes come in many forms‚ yet traits such as: courage‚ honor‚ and loyalty‚ reappear as themes throughout the personality of a hero. The characters of Beowulf and Sir Gawain each represent a version of a hero‚ yet each comes across quite differently in their respective story. A hero can be said to truly win if he remains constant to his noble values when put in any situation that crosses his way. When measured by that criteria‚ Sir Gawain stands

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    Sonnet 55

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    first time Shakespeare references the self-aggrandizement of royals and rulers by saying that poetry will outlive them. He frequently mentions his own (political) unimportance‚ which could lead sonnet 55 to be read as a sort of revenge of the socially humble on their oppressors.[3] While the first quatrain is referential and full of imagery‚ in the second quatrain Ernest Fontana focuses on the epithet “sluttish time.” The Oxford English Dictionary gives “sluttish” two definitions: 1) dirty‚ careless

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    Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices Two very common errors among writers are run-on sentences and comma splices. Amazingly‚ both of these errors are caused by not knowing what a sentence is. A sentence is a group of words containing a subject and verb (also known as a clause) that expresses a complete thought. A sentence can also be called an independent clause: clause because it contains a subject and a verb‚ and independent because it can stand alone. Let’s look at some examples of this type

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    brother Edward to the sea of Torquay‚ where her brother drowned to death‚ causing her to be emotionally broken.  All the while she had been deep in reading and writing poetry‚ and she had published some anonymous works which received much unexpected praise. She continued to write‚ despite her depressed state‚ but refused to leave her house for the “next five years.”  During this time‚ she produced a collection known as Poems‚ which caught the eye of a poet who she had mentioned in her poems‚ Robert

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    Antigone

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    crime. Antigone‚ Haemon‚ and Teiresias all use a different predominant one form of rhetorical appeal‚ yet it is just one of these characters using pathos that is able to overcome Creon’s stubbornness. Antigone’s argument is “All these men here would praise me were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you‚” (2. 114-115) where she uses ethos to signify the unethical person Creon is being in her opinion‚ his stubbornness in her eyes. Yet it is the ethos referring to her saying Creon is morally unstable

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    using marks or points in writing to make the readers understand the variation in tone and pauses taken by the speaker.” Example: The points or marks made use of for the purpose are: I. The Full Stop (Br Eng.)‚ the Period (Am Eng.) ( . ) II. The Comma ( ‚ ) III. The Colon ( : ) IV. The Semi Colon ( ; ) V. The Question Mark ( ? ) VI. The Exclamation mark (BrE)‚ The Exclamation Point ( ! ) VII. The Apostrophe ( ‘ ) VIII. The Hyphen ( - ) IX. The Dash

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    In " Pride and Prejudice"‚ the narrator use a lot of free indirect speechs in portarying the characters . For example: in the 14the chapeter‚ when Mr. Bennet talks about Lady Catherine with his nephew Mr. Collins. "Mr. Collins was eloquent in her praise. The subject elevated him to more than usual solemnity of manner‚ and with a most important aspect he protested that he had never in his life witnessed such behavior in a person of rank -- such affability and condescension as he had himself experienced

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    use a comma before the ‘and’ or the ‘or.’  When you use ‘however’ within a sentence‚ you must have a comma on either side of the word. Or‚ you could have no commas at all. But‚ you cannot use just one comma unless ‘However’ is the first word in the sentence. Introductory subordinate clauses need a comma to set them off from the rest of the sentence. Subordinate clauses start with subordinating conjunctions (while‚ after‚ if‚ when‚ as‚ etc.) and must be set off from the main message with a comma. For

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