2016-07-11 Writing: reading how-to paragraphs

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: finish your paragraphs and look for and correct any mistakes. (Especially things like word forms, such as nouns or adjectives, and subject-verb agreement, with singular and plural words.)
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Exchange your paragraph with your partners. Look for a good topic sentence and concluding sentence. Is the order time-order or listing-order? Does your partner use transition signals correctly?
Also look for grammar mistakes.
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Sentence fragments and verb forms:

*Third, being jealous of him. - fragment, because it’s just a gerund phrase, which could be the subject of a sentence if we had a verb: “Being jealous of him will make him angry.”

Imperative sentences use the base form of the verb: “Third, be jealous of him.”

“for example” starts a new sentence (and must be followed by a complete sentence)
“such as” goes in the middle of a sentence (and is followed by a noun or list of nouns)
	You must eat unhealthy food, such as french fries and hamburgers.
	The food you eat must be unhealthy. For example, french fries and hamburgers will be a good choice.
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destroy (verb)
destruction (noun)
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“comfortable”, for most English speakers, is pronounced like “comfterble”
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Can we play a game rather than study?
Can we play a game instead of studying? (“of” is a preposition, so we use a gerund after it)
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handout p. 76 part B - Complete the sentences with adverbs from the box. Is there another place in the sentence where the adverb could go?
2 easily (or: “you will easily pass the test”)
3 clearly
4 thoroughly (or: “the paint thoroughly dries”)
5 carefully
6 cheaply
7 hard
8 attractively