2019-08-29 Writing: corrections

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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Read your partner’s paragraph about the answers you gave on Monday.
- Is the first sentence a good topic sentence with a controlling idea? Does the last sentence give an opinion?
- Are the things they wrote the same things you told them?
- Are the sentences all correct?
	(Check for fragments: sentences missing subjects, missing verbs, or not complete ideas.)

Work with your partner to correct the mistakes you find.
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Expressing consequences:

cause: It was raining.
effect: We stayed inside.

It was raining, so we stayed inside.
	- Same sentence, comma before “so” but not after

It was raining. Therefore, we stayed inside. (As a consequence, / Consequently, / As a result, / Thus,)

It was raining, and so/thus we stayed inside.

Because it was raining, we stayed inside.
We stayed inside because it was raining.
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Run-on sentences and comma splices

* It was raining, we stayed inside. (WRONG: This is called a comma splice. A comma is “not enough” to connect two independent ideas.)

Threre are three ways to fix this:
1 It was raining, so we stayed inside. (After the comma, add a coordinating conjunction.)
2 It was raining. We stayed inside. (Separate them into two sentences with a period.)
3 It was raining; we stayed inside. (Use a semicolon instead of a comma if the ideas are closely related.)