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2017-09-20 Grammar: parallel structure

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  1. Greg Malivuk
  2. http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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  4. Homework: p. 193 exercise 5 - Combine the sentences correctly (with coordinating conjunctions).
  5. 1 Jeff likes cleaning, but Matt doesn’t.
  6. 2 Jeff may go home for a visit or travel to France on his vacation.
  7. 3 Matt and Jeff don’t plan to return to their hometowns to live.
  8. Neither Matt nor Jeff plans to return to his hometown to live.
  9. Matt doesn’t plan to return to his hometown to live, and neither does Jeff.
  10. 4 Jeff likes getting up early, but Matt doesn’t.
  11. Matt doesn’t like getting up early, but Jeff does.
  12. 5 Both Jeff and Matt always wanted to have dogs.
  13. Jeff always wanted to have a dog, and so did Matt. / and Matt did too.
  14. 6 Both Matt and Jeff might take their dogs to the park this afternoon.
  15. Either Matt or Jeff might take the dog to the park this afternoon. (If they’re roommates with one dog.)
  16. 7 Matt likes dancing and meeting friends at nightclubs.
  17. 8 Matt comes from a small town in Kansas, and Jeff comes from one in Wisconsin.
  18. Matt and Jeff both come from small towns. Matt from Kansas and Jeff from Wisconsin.
  19. Matt and Jeff come from small towns in Kansas and Wisconsin, respectively.
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  21. Handout p. 29 - Identify the item from each list which is not parallel to the others. Can you fix it?
  22. 1 boat rides -> boating
  23. 2 They are digging for clams. -> They dig for clams.
  24. 3 his eyes -> in front of his eyes
  25. 4 painting pictures -> painted pictures / paintings
  26. 5 sadly -> sadness
  27. 6 into the Rolls Royce -> driven by a Rolls Royce (?)
  28. 7 strong -> strength
  29. 8 fly -> flew
  30. 9 eating meat pies -> meat pie stands
  31. 10 in the fall -> lonely in the fall
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  33. Parts of Speech:
  34. nouns
  35. verbs
  36. adjectives
  37. adverbs
  38. prepositions
  39. pronouns
  40. articles
  41. (etc.)
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  43. Same handout p. 30 - Rewrite the sentences to have parallel structure.
  44. 1 Tom enjoys swimming and skating.
  45. 2 He wore a green suede jacket, a flowered shirt, and multicolored platform shoes.
  46. 3 At 16, I was wild, outspoken, and uncaring.
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  48. Homework: finish the handout
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