Reminder: QUIZ ~ Roots and Run-Ons ~ Tuesday, 9/27
Grammar
Practice: Bedford Exercise 20 – 1 Run-On Sentences (Do these in Notability.)
Directions: Revise any run-on sentences using the method of revision suggested in brackets.
Example: Orville had been obsessed with his weight as a teenager, he rarely ate anything sweet. (Restructure the sentence)
New: Because Orville had been obsessed with his weight as a teenager, he rarely ate anything sweet.
- The city had one public swimming pool, it stayed packed with children all summer long. (Restructure the sentence)
- The building is being renovated, therefore at times we have no heat, water, electricity. (Use a comma and coordinating conjunction)
- The view was not what the travel agent had described, where were the rolling hills and the shimmering rivers? (Make two sentences)
- All those gnarled equations looked like toxic insects, maybe I was going to have to rethink my major. (Use a semicolon)
- The city government had good reason to fear the major earth quake, most of the business district was built on landfill. (use a semicolon)
- The car was hardly worth trading, the frame was twisted and the block was warped. (Restructure the sentence)
- The next time an event was canceled because of the bas weather, don’t blame the meteorologist, blame nature. (Make two sentences)
- Ray was fluent in American Sign Language he could sign as easily as he could speak. (Restructure the sentence)
Activity
Fly Swatter Game
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