2019-10-23 Writing: fragments

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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Homework: englishforeveryone.org handout - identify Sentences and Fragments, and add words to fix the fragments
1 S
2 S
3 F - He went to the store.
4 F - She was singing all day long. / Singing all day long is her job.
5 F - Once they get here, we will eat dinner.
6 S
7 F - We went to the beach and it was fun.
8 F - He can’t change level without increasing his test scores.
	(“without increasing his test scores” = “if he doesn’t increase his test scores”)
9 F - A high quality car hit me. / I just bought a high quality car.
10 S
11 F - Annie and her best friend Julia are going to the cinema.
12 S
13 F - I ate five slices of pizza.
14 F - I won’t arrive until 2:30 in the morning! / I have to work until 2:30 in the morning!
15 F - While Thomas was making dinner, he drank a bottle of wine. Dinner was terrible!
16 F - I didn’t have a care in the world.
17 F - All of the guards at the castle were killed.
18 S
19 S
20 F - Any day they want to come will be fine.
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war / wore / worn / warm
were / worm
wear / where

What were we wearing while World War One was won?
(tongue-twister)
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To express purpose, goal, benefit (to translate “para” from Spanish or Portuguese):
to + verb
for + noun
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p. 12 practice 3 - What’s wrong with the format of this paragraph? Fix it with circles and arrows.
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Longman Academic Writing Series (book 2)
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Homework (to start in class): Write three (short) paragraphs about the person you interviewed on Monday (or a person you invent, if you weren’t here Monday). The paragraphs should be
1 Background/introduction (e.g. name, origin, job in home country)
2 Present (why English? where in Boston? hobbies?)
3 Future/conclusion (plans, goals, future job)