2016-08-19 Writing: sentence and capitalization errors

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: Find and correct mistakes in your paragraph and then rewrite it with the format from p. 9 of the handout (on a new piece of paper that you will give to me tomorrow).
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Handout p. 15 practice 4 A and B - Identify whether each phrase is a sentence or not, and correct the ones that aren’t sentences.
1 NS - It is very hot today.
2 S
3 NS - My new classmate is from Brazil.
4 S
5 NS - He is very competitive.
6 S (We don’t write the subject for imperative sentences.)
7 S
8 S
9 NS - He enjoys music, especially jazz.
10 S
11 NS - The books are expensive. / The book’s expensive. (contraction of “book is”)
12 S
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p. 17 practice 5 - on the board
practice 6 - With your same partner, correct the mistakes in the paragraph.
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Position of frequency adverbs:
I always run. / I never run. / I usually run.
I am always running. / I am never running. / I am usually running.

You always call me when I’m sleeping. (Every time I sleep, you call me.)
I’m always sleeping when you call me. (Every time you call me, I’m asleep.)

You often call me when I’m sleeping.
I’m often sleeping when you call me.
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Capitalization:
- Names of specific people, places, or things (proper nouns)
	(This includes days of the week and months of the year.)
- Adjectives that come from proper nouns (such as nationalities), and languages
	(American, Canadian, Bostonian, English, Spanish, French)
- The first word in a sentence
- The pronoun “I”
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Homework: correct the capitalization mistakes in the paragraph on p. 19