Roots
- plac, place - please
- psych - mind, soul
- ri, ridi, risi - laughter
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ 1. Nonrestrictive vs. restrictive elements in a sentence.
*Nonrestrictive - contains nonessential information - USE A Comma
*Restrictive - contains essential information - DO NOT USE A Comma
Ex. Nonrestrictive - The campers need to order tents, which cost $900.
Removing the nonrestrictive element "which cost $900" does not change the meaning.
Ex. Restrictive - The campers need tents that are water proof.
Removing the restrictive element "that are water proof" changes the meaning. This makes the sentence more general which looses the important message of the tents needing to be water proof.
2.Use a comma to set off direct quotations.
Ex. Ms. B screamed, "Please sit down and shut up!"
3. Use a comma with dates, addresses, titles, and numbers.
Ex. On April 8, 2017, Ms. B will marry her sweetheart.
Ex. Please deliver the package to 2 School Way, Watsonville, CA 95076
Ex. Daphne Doolittle, MD, has been appointed to the board of trustees.
4. Use commas to avoid confusion.
Ex. Students who can, leave before the last bell rings.
Practice - J#19 in Google Classroom - Add or delete commas. Write "C" if the sentence is correct.
a.The flame crawled up the fence to reach a low-hanging pine branch which quickly ignited.
b. Frozen, my niece's favorite movie, was released on November, 27 2013.
c. To err is human; to forgive divine.
d. On January 24, 2018 our office will move to 53 Overdahill Ln. Blue Town CA 99903.
e. You have to read your labels; spaghetti sauce for example contains more sodium than most people realize.
f. Victoria is a noisy disrespectful student.
g. Founded in 1926 Monte Vista Christian School was one of the first Christian schools in Santa Cruz County.
h. A member of an organization that provides housing to the disabled was also appointed to the commission.
i. Sophia who traveled to the US in 2015 became a world class ice skating champion.
j. The artist painting a sunrise was once my English student.
Homework
- Grammar - Commas
- Practice Stanza 3 of "If"
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