Listen to #30. Write your response, then engage in a dialogue with your classmates by responding to at least two of their comments.
Be careful to finish Grammar Girl #2 before you do this one. Also, make sure that your responses are thoughtful and thought-provoking.
**Note: you are also supposed to read and incorporate the link at the bottom of the post about "Parts of a Sentence."
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I personally learned a lot about "sentence fragments." I learned that writers leave out important words while writing and produce fragments instead of sentences. I also learned how a complete sentence must include a subject and a verb. Something that i found interesting was that imperative sentences are commands. It is really cool how you can test yourself by asking yourself if there is a verb which means the sentence is a fragmnet.
Parts of A Sentence:
Like it said in "Sentence Fragments," all complete sentences need a subject and a verb. I think this is review for me, since i've already learned this material in the past. Anyways i learned more about sentence fragments and complete sentences.
Examples of Complete Sentences:
1. He ran to the Basketball court quickly.
2. I was going to go to my locker afterschool.
By: Navpreet Singh
Period 6
cool u really no your stuff
this Grammar Girl i learned a lot about how to improve the way you write this time she talked about pre-fixes like dis,un,non,ect... all you have to do is put one of these pre-fixes before a word and i can chang the word. like; happy if you put the pre-fix un before it it will be come unhappy. another one dis thake the word aprove and put dis befor it and it will be come disaproved .
This was the most annoying selection yet. I felt her teaching style was juvenile and ineffective. I hope her pedagogy improves in future podcasts! Thankfully, one of the additional readings made the point that sentence fragments are sometimes used in the journalistic style of writing; only formal academic prose requires complete sentences. I thought the additional material also made a helpful point about imperative sentences -- the subject "you" is implied, so they are complete sentences with a subject and verb. I've noticed that all of her tips so far are reminders that good writing involves varied sentence structure. By joining the main clause and the dependent clause, you avoid sentence fragments and also make your writing more interesting. Agree?
I'm going to write teen novels. Because then I can use sentence fragments and everyone will think my portrayal of the characters is realistic and brilliant!!
I agree that Navpreet is very smart.
Jacob Artson
My responses:
lakiarralofton: I agree with you because you gave a really nice example of a pre-fix, using "happy." You can use happy and add a pre-fix to change the meaning like: un-happy, meaning not happy.
Jacob Artson: I agree with you when you say that "Sentence Fragments" are more often used in journalistic style of writing. I also agree with Jacob when he says that, "by joining the main clause and the dependent clause," you can make your writing better and more interesting. By the way, thanks for saying that I am smart!
By: Navpreet Singh
Period 6
I learned that a sentence fragment does not express a complete thought. It is only a piece of a sentence, and it cannot stand alone as a sentence. A sentence fragment is an incorrect sentence construction.
Fragment: The turtle swimming in the pond.
Sentence: The turtlr was swimming in the pond.
Parts of a sentence
I learned how to determine the subject of a sentence, first isolate the verb and then make a question by placing "who?" or "what?" before it -- the answer is the subject.
Navpreet I also learned that by asking a question you can fined out if your work is a sentence or a fragment.
Jartsonla wow! you shouldn’t be so mean, she’s not only helping high school students but elementary students also she has to make it so everyone can understand what she means.
Navpreet I also learned that by asking a question you can fined out if your work is a sentence or a fragment.
Jartsonla wow! you shouldn’t be so mean, she’s not only helping high school students but elementary students also she has to make it so everyone can understand what she means.
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