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A word that describes or modifies a verb. Example: “Quickly” in the phrase “he ran quickly.”

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The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive.

The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.

The part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence in most languages.

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(When a participle phrase is used to begin a sentence, it should be set off by a comma.)

A participle is an adjective formed from a verb, when one changes a verb in order to make it describe.

Adding “-ing” to a verb makes a present participle.

A past participle is formed differently, since not all verbs form the past tense regularly.

We saw Mr. Swindells jumping into the lake.

Here the participle phrase “jumping into the lake" acts as an adjective describing the proper noun “Mr. Swindells."

A participle

phrase usually begins

with a participle

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A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition…

… and usually ends with a noun or pronoun

(called the object of the preposition).

In the sentence, “Mr. Swindells hit the ball over the fence,” the prepositional phrase “over the fence” modifies the verb “hit,” because the phrase tells us more about the verb (it explains the distance of the hit). Don’t be confused — “over the fence” does not modify the noun “ball,” because — unless the ball was corked — going “over the fence” has nothing to do with the “ball.” It’s the “hit” that sends it out of the yard!

I tried on every dress in the store.

You can come to my house.

Noun being modified

Prepositional phrase

Prepositional phrase

Verb phraseBeing modified

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Two words brought together as a compound may be written separately, as one word, or connected by hyphens. For example, three modern dictionaries all have the same listings for the following compounds: hair stylist

hairsplitter hair-raiser

Another modern dictionary, however, lists hairstylist, not hair stylist. Compounding is obviously in a state of flux, and authorities do not always agree in all cases,

but the uses of the hyphen offered here are generally agreed upon.

However, when compound modifiers come after a noun, they are not hyphenated:The peanuts were chocolate covered. The author was well known.

a one-way streetchocolate-covered peanuts

well-known author

forty-six sixty-three Our much-loved teacher was sixty-three years old.

re-sign a petition (vs. resign from a job)

(and make the break only between syllables)

pref-er-ence sell-ing in-di-vid-u-al-ist Slide 2For line breaks, divide already hyphenated words

only at the hyphen: mass-produced

ex-husband self-assured mid-September all-inclusive mayor-elect anti-American T-shirt pre-Civil War mid-1980s

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We use adverbs of manner to tell us how something happened. They describe the way or style of doing something:You can dance well. She sang that song badly.

We usually put them at the end of the sentence, though sometimes they come before the main verb:That book was written badly. That book was badly written.

Many of these adverbs end in -ly:awkwardly, badly, coldly, desperately...

Common irregular adverbsof manner include:high, late, near, well

Information adapted from: http://www.teacher-training.net/companion/gg/adverbs/advmanner.htm

Adverb, verb Verb, adverb,

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Title Punctuation

Use quotes forshorter works

Underline / italicizelonger works

Poems Novels

Songs

Scenes

Articles Albums

Movies

Periodicals

Names of bands, people, and places.

Titles of chapters.

The title as it appears before one’s own work.

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They’re — contraction for “they are”Think: “They R –E –eally” (say it like Jim Carrey) “must go!”

There — indicator of locationThink: “HERE or THERE?”

Their — plural possessive Think: “Are all farmers in dells so possessive of their ‘E-I’s?”

If they are going they R-E- eally are going, so

If they’re there you know they’re not here, yo!

It really doesn’t matter, just lettin’ ya know

If they’re there with their, “E-I – E-I – Uh Oh!”

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Following these steps will help you to decide which form to use. a. Isolate the clause which contains who or whom.    ex: The man (who, whom) she thought was perfect jilted her.

                                                 (who, whom) was perfect

b. Substitute the word he for who and him for whom.                                     he was perfect    or     him was perfect

c. Since he was perfect makes sense, you would use who.

d. Sometimes you will have to rearrange the clause into normal word order.

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Run-on sentences contain multiple phrases that could each function on its own as a

complete sentence. Run-ons often include more that one conjunction, such as multiple

uses of “like,” “and," or “but.” To correct, change the word-order or punctuation.

I work at Foulkeways and it is a pretty good place to work, because the people who work there are nice, all except for Lori she is mean

I work at Foulkeways. It is a pretty good place to work because the people who work there are nice, except for Lori. She is mean!

One solution:

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Correct the mistakes in verb tense from the paragraphs at this website:

http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/2893.html

Hey, you! Yeah, I’m talking to you. Don’t start writing in the past tense in the middle of a random paragraph when you’ve written the whole story in present tense up to that point! Look for unintentional shifts in tense when proofreading.

Come on! Catch this when proof-reading!

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Self-evident

Problematic,But aceessibile

Problematic and difficult

Including quotes, facts, or information from another source into your own writing to help defend your thesis.

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1. John, the naughty boy, got a lump of coal in his stocking.2.  The painting Starry Night is by artist Vincent Van Gogh

3.  Tom, my friend's brother, won the lottery.4.  The car, a Corvette, rumbled down the road.

5.  Neil, the drummer for a successful rock band, performed at the stadium.

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“They're are also homonyms; check there meaning their too.”

— http://192.211.16.13/curricular/pass2000/writingtips.htm

Look over all winners

And this is

prize!

Click here for a list of homonyms!

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Something that represents sonething else, especially concrete representation of moral or intellectual quality.

A manner of speaking or writing that shows a certain attitude on the part of the speaker or writer, consisting in choice of words, phrasing, etc.

A mode of speech in which the meaning is the opposite of that actually expressed.

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If you want to write or speak about one person without giving away his or her gender…

should never go to bed angry at spouse.(not “their spouse”)

Everyone is entitled to opinion.

can go too.If you have a boyfriend or girlfriend,

(not “their opinion”)

(not “they can go too”)

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Don’t take my word for it … to check out Purdue University’s OWL writing site for more on parallel

structure, click here.

Using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.

I enjoy eat ice cream, tak baths, and when I go fishing.

go fishing.

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