EFFECTIVE SENTENCES Sentences are groups of words arranged to express a complete thought. Sentence Faults A sentence becomes faulty when the idea expressed is incomplete or when it doesn’t make sense. Example: My research report in business communication took a long time to prepare. And then turned out badly. (Incomplete idea in the second sentence.) Prices ranging from $40 to $160 for courses gift certificates are available. (Doesn’t make sense. Is it the price of courses?) Typical sentence faults
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01/09/2013 Reading Reflection At first‚ I think literacy has two meanings. The first meaning is culture or civilization and the second meaning is the ability to write and read. Both meaning are very similar‚ they are related to cultural knowledge. But in today’s society‚ literacy not only means culture. The concept of information literacy is people can effectively use and recognize the information. Besides‚ people can redefining and evaluate themselves in today’s information society. By reading Nunberg’s
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Sentence Variety Activity Name__________________________________ Instructions: Seeing as how our recent grammar practice has included sentences that are well beyond the complexity of simple sentences‚ let’s practice creating writing that has sentence variety instead of repetitive‚ predictable simple sentences. Take the following simple sentences (all focused around the wonderful world of Biology that you love so much) and combine them with subordinating conjunctions‚ relative pronouns (AWHITEBUS
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SUMMER READING RESPONSE Book: Contemporary Title: The Hunger Games Series Author: Susan Collins Choose a character and explain how the character changes throughout the story. What causes the change? What lessons does the character learn? Peeta‚ the son of a baker‚ has changed the most throughout the story in The Hunger Games Series. From the beginning of the story‚ Peeta is a shy and closed guy‚ who is always afraid to say his own feelings and words‚ “Well‚ there is this one girl. I’ve had
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READING PASSAGE 1 Lost for Words Many minority languages are on the danger list.In the Native American Navajo nation which sprawls across four states in the American south-west‚ the native language is dying. Most of its speakers are middle-age or elderly. Although many students take classes in Navajo‚ the schools are run in English. Street sign‚ supermarket goods and even their own newspaper are all in English. Not surprisingly‚ linguists doubt that any native speakers of Navajo will remain in
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selfish people. He grew angry due to societal standards allowing this man show his love when Oscar Wilde himself‚ being gay‚ could not. “In Reading Goal in Reading Town there is a pit of shame and in it lies a wretched man eaten by teeth of flame‚ In a burning winding-sheet he lies‚ and his grave has got no name”(Reading Goal‚ part 6 stanza 1 line 4-6). In this sentence‚ Wilde describes the man using phrases such as “wretched” and “lying in a pit of shame” to create a very harsh and negative tone.
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periods is the best way. In our opinion‚ long prison sentences can help to reduce crime because it can make a deterrent for criminals‚ criminals can re-educated though some educated course in prison; and locked up the criminals can protect the safety of innocent people. First of all‚ we think the purpose of long sentences is that it can make people be afraid of long time staying in prison. According to Theguardian‚ in 2012‚ long prison sentences proving the effect of long prison’s deterrent. At
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Summer Reading 2nd Block Fahrenheit 451 Characters Guy Montag- Montag was a fireman who wanted to find a meaning to life. His attitude about life and society suddenly changed after meeting Clarisse. Also‚ he didn’t think before he acted and this got him into some trouble. He didn’t understand why he had to burn books. Montag saved some of the books he was supposed to burn and this was completely against the law. He was eventually caught and had to go on the run so that he was not put in jail
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I h8 txt Msgs: How Texting Is Wrecking Our Language Reading Humphrys so troubled by the fact that the Oxford English Dictionary has removed the hyphen from thousands of words because he think that the author is trying to adapt to the new generation of writing as what he called fashion. Like shortening the word or using abbreviation as many people use on email and SMS. He thinks that this makes people care less in proper spelling and grammar. The reason for this change is because we are changing the
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CHAPTER 1: THREE OLD WORLDS CREATE A NEW‚ 1492-1600 GUIDED READING QUESTIONS 57 terms Introduction Know: Old World‚ New World Are the terms old world and new world biased? Old World : Europeans fleeing poverty & religious persecution. New World: North America 1. What conditions existed in what is today the United States that made it "fertile ground" for a great nation? Abundant natural resources Prior inhabitance & cultivation of the land by the Native Americans The Shaping
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