2016-08-22 Writing: error correction

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: correct the capitalization mistakes in the paragraph on p. 19

Sometimes adjectives are capitalized if it refers to a specific variety of something:
old English = English from the past
Old English = Anglo-Saxon, spoken in Britain from about 600AD to 1100AD
modern English = English spoken today
Modern English = English spoken from 1500AD to the present time
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With your partner, try to correct the mistakes in your writing that I have circled.
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to make cheerful the atmosphere -> to make the atmosphere cheerful
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Last week we talked about sentence fragments, which are “too short” to be complete sentences.
Another common problem is run-on sentences, which are “too long”.

I love my family, we are my father, my mother, my sister, and me, my father is a teacher, he teaches in high school, my mother is the president of a company, and my sister is a student.
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I love my family. We are my father, my mother, my sister, and me. My father is a high-school teacher, my mother is the president of a company, and my sister is a student.
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Note: I write a comma before “and” in a list. This is called the Oxford comma or the serial comma, and different people have different opinions about if it’s necessary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma