Transcript Document 7292393

Midterm Review
Works Cited
Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Spinsters/
Aunt Lute, 1987.
Christie, John S. "Fathers and Virgins: Garcia Marquez's Faulknerian Chronicle of a
Death Foretold." Latin American Literary Review 13.3 (Fall 1993): 21-29.
Astin, Alexander W. Achieving Educational Excellence. Washington: Jossey-Bass, 1985.
Jones, V.S., M.E. Eakle. A History of Newspapers. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge UP,
1987.
Metheny, N.M., and W. D. Snively. Nurses' Handbook of Fluid Balance. Philadelphia:
Lippincott, 1967.
Works Cited
Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San
Francisco: Spinsters/ Aunt Lute, 1987.
Astin, Alexander W. Achieving Educational Excellence. Washington: Jossey-
Bass, 1985.
Jones, V.S., M.E. Eakle, and C.W. Foerster. A History of Newspapers.
Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge UP, 1987.
Metheny, N.M., and W. D. Snively. Nurses' Handbook of Fluid Balance.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1967.
Correct these fragments:
When I was young I had a favorite form of transportation.
A bus which traveled to the beach.
When I was young my favorite form of transportation
was a bus which traveled to the beach.
There were some great rides at the amusement park. Was
open from 9:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M.
There were some great rides at the amusement park
which was open from 9:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M.
Read each sentence aloud. Put S before each complete sentence and F before each sentence fragment
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1.______ Dancers dance.
2.______ Reliable as mother, wife, and secretary.
3.______ Do you remember?
4.______ The campers who kept the cleanest cabin.
5.______ Even if we fly, we will be late.
6.______ Having worked outdoors all his life.
7.______ Wanting to please her parents, she had
tea ready on their arrival.
• 8.______ Sad to hear of the many occurrences of
vandalism.
• 9.______ Painting in a studio with bad lighting.
• 10._____ As soon as the police arrived, the fighting
stopped.
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Comma Splices
When a comma alone separates two
independent clauses. Comma splices MUST
be corrected.
The computer is an invaluable tool, it links
together millions of people.
Correct these comma splices:
Paul went swimming during the storm, he nearly
drowned.
Mary killed her husband with a leg of lamb, no
one will ever know because the evidence was
eaten.
Run-on Sentence
Consists of two or more independent clauses
with no punctuation or connector between
them. Run-on sentences MUST be corrected.
We headed off to the game during the rain the
rain stopped before we got there.
Ways to correct run-on sentences:
• Create two sentences
• Add a comma and a conjunction (and, but, or)
• Use a semicolon (the two sentences must be
closely related)
• Use a connecting word (because, then, when,
if)
Correct these sentences:
Night was falling the sun was setting.
A diamond won’t dissolve in acid intense heat
can destroy it.
Correct these sentences
1. Learning is not child’s play we cannot learn
without pain.
2. Mama had not been consulted therefore,
she made no comment.
3. Jim had done research, taken notes, and
made an outline but he didn’t feel ready to
begin writing.