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    palace and a popular tourist attraction. Louis XIII’s son‚ Louis XIV‚ disliked his palace and wanted to live somewhere else. After searching‚ Louis found what he wanted‚ his father’s old cabin. He hired‚ Louis Le Vau‚ a famous architect‚ to build this humble estate of his father into a luxurious palace. Le Vau built much of the modern-day Versailles. Taking many years‚ Le Vau extended this building into a stone and brick palace‚ and added buildings that make up what is known as “The Envelope” today. During

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    most of his passage; all his sentences are medium in length until his final statement that makes the entire second paragraph. Adding a significantly longer sentence builds up the fruitfulness and complexity of the story. Moreover‚ with his use of commas‚ his sentence is broken up into easily understandable ideas. The reader’s attention is captured by the pauses‚ forcing thoughts to be made about what is read. An example includes the following quote by deMan: “… perhaps the uneasiness of her new position

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    Metro Area (i.e.‚ The Johns Hopkins University)." that vs. which Restrictive (identifying) clauses use that and are not set off with commas: BU.350.620 is the course that I take on Mondays. Non-restrictive (commenting) clauses use which and are set off with commas or parentheses: BU.350.620‚ which is a Carey required course‚ is the course I take on Mondays. Comma preceding and It is correct to have a ’‚’ precede ’and’ in a list of words that denotes a separation of the items as distinct as shown

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    writers understand how to draft these important documents effectively. This memo will cover the correct memo format first. Then‚ it will discuss clarity and conciseness‚ consistency and numbers‚ passive voice‚ parallelism‚ sexist writing‚ agreement‚ comma usage and hyphen usage. USING CORRECT MEMO FORMAT Unlike conversations‚ memos leave a "paper trail‚" so the company can use directives‚ inquiries‚ instructions‚ requests‚ recommendations‚ policies and other reports for future reference. Depending

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    Amanda Grumke Obstacles

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    struggled with the correct usage of commas. In essay 2 page 2‚ Amanda wrote: “As the silver chain rotates I think of the chrome hubcaps rotating….” In this sentence‚ she is missing the comma between rotates and I. In her later essays‚ Amanda has made a great deal of improvement. In essay 3 she wrote‚ “When it comes time for the mothers to deliver‚ I will be able to provide medical attention.” This sentence shows a good usage of commas. She remembered to place a comma to connect the two thoughts. Furthermore

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    How does style create meaning? This is the question that we wanted to figure out from the first lesson. As you said‚ this prompt was hard to answer. People had discussed for hundreds of years. When I first saw this prompt‚ I was really confused and had many question about this prompt. The first and the most important thing about the prompt is what is style? The style in writing is the way the author write the passage. The tone‚ the punctuation and the rhetoric are all included in style. After knowing

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    HSC ENGLISH QUESTION NO.-03 As stated earlier‚ Comprehension (Text) is the application of Grammatical Concept. So‚ to be well done with the question(s) of First Paper‚ we need to have a comprehensive knowledge over English grammar. It is more severe‚ especially for the Question No. -03 of course. Question No. – 03: Correct form of words. One needs to be done efficiently with the 3 things in order to get well with Question No. -03. 1. Syntax of English Sentence 2. Transformation 3.

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    fragment with a group‚ which the teacher gave me. Those activities are good to practice to recognize the error in the sentence. Next lesson‚ I learned run-ons‚ comma splice‚ and comma problem. Almost student gets some mistake or trouble with those problems while writing a paragraph because they don’t know where to put the comma or no need the comma in the sentence. My teacher also gave me some examples and problems to practice. It’s very helpful to improve my skill writing. I have a good knowledge of

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    of retail expansion Acquisition of the comma brand Chaloc Textilhandels GmbH renamed comma Textilhandels GmbH and introduction of the comma brand Start of s.Oliver fragrances Start of the s.Oliver umbrella brand campaign 2003 2004 Takeover of the foreign markets Austria‚ Switzerland and Benelux as its own subsidiaries Start of s.Oliver Online Shop www.soliver.de Start of the Accessories lines of the comma brand through licence allocation and launch of comma fragrances Launch of QS STYLE Male‚ relaunch

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    Grammar? Knowing where and when to use the fourteen punctuation marks found in English grammar can greatly improve your writing skills. What are the fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar? They are the period‚ question mark‚ exclamation point‚ comma‚ semicolon‚ colon‚ dash‚ hyphen‚ parentheses‚ brackets‚ braces‚ apostrophe‚ quotation marks‚ and ellipses. Sentence Endings Three of the fourteen punctuation marks are appropriate for use as sentence endings. They are the period‚ question mark‚ and

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