It's the first day back after break and we had a hard-working group here today.
The group worked on a revision worksheet in class, and we went over it on the board at the end. It was good to see the importance of taking the time to proofread and revise carefully before turning writing in to be graded. Even little things, like typos and misspellings, can totally change the meaning of what we are trying to communicate to our readers.
At the end of class, I handed out a worksheet on identifying fragment and complete sentences. Chapter 14 in your book will be very helpful in completing this. We'll also work with this more later in the week, but do your best to finish this worksheet on your own. It will give you an idea of how much work you will need to put in on your own.
Think about the following statements:
A sentence is a group of words that communicates a complete thought.
The words in the sentence should be in an order that makes sense.
Begin every sentence with a capital letter, and end with the correct punctuation mark.
Beware of Facebook status sentences. We have talked about this many times this semester.
Examples: Going to the store after school. Headed to Barley's after work tonight.
These are both fragment sentences; they are missing the subject (answers the question: who or what is doing the action?). Though these are accepted sentences in conversation and on Facebook, and the subject is understood, they are not technically correct/complete sentences.
I'm going to the store after school. We're headed to Barley's after work tonight.
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