September 14, 2012

1. September 14, 2012 Journal Re-write the following and put in the proper punctuation. Use your editing marks to show the changes you have made: february14 2012 dear darla ihate your stinkin guts you are the scum between my toes you make me vomit love alfalfa Quote “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” –General George S. Patton Word of the Day They told the boy that 8+0 was 9. He believed them. They could not believe how asinine he was. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2ONM6n7avA

2. february 14 2012 dear darla i hate your stinkin guts you are the scum between my toes you make me vomit love alfalfa

3. Asinine (adjective) • Foolish, unintelligent, or silly; stupid

4. Reminders • Spelling Test is on the 18th. • Grammar Textbook: October 4th • Journals are due today!!!

5. Review • Clause • Essential Clause • Nonessential Clause • Adjective Clause • Adverb Clause • Noun Clause

6. Run-On Sentences • Run-On Sentences • Two main clauses separated by only a comma. • Example: The soccer players fought over the ball, they yelled at the ref. • Two main clauses with no punctuation between them. • Example: The soccer players fought over the ball yelled at the ref. • Two main clauses without a comma BEFORE the coordinating conjunction. • Example: The soccer players fought over the ball and, yelled at the ref.

7. Colon • Colon • Use a colon to introduce a list of items that ends a sentence. • Example: The reasons that the T-Rex cannot clap his hands are: his arms are too short, his body is too big, and he is dead. • Use a colon to separate the hour and the minute in time measurements and after business letter salutations. • Example: 1:30 P.M. • Example: To Whom it may Concern:

8. Dash • Dash • Signals a break or change in thought. • Generally, people use these instead of ellipsis. • Example: Milk is good – but it’s not as good as ice cream. • Example: The guy called milk “ice cold cow juice” – what a weirdo!

9. Parentheses • Parentheses • Use parentheses to set off supplemental material. • Punctuate within the parentheses only if the punctuation is part of the parenthetical expression. • Example: The dog’s eyebrows (drawn on with a Crayola marker) were raised in suspicion. • Example: The dog’s owner (Mr. Doodle) drew the eyebrows.

10. Hyphens • Hyphens • Use a hyphen to divide words at the end of a line. • Example: The enorm- ous hair on that guy is funny. • Use a hyphen in compound adjectives that precede a noun. • Example: The fifty-something-old-man did not finish cutting his hair.

11. Hyphens • Hyphens • Use a hyphen in compound numbers and fractions used as adjectives. • Example: Shrek was not one-half that buff before he started working out. • Use a hyphen after any prefix joined to a proper noun or proper adjective. • Example: Although some people are anti-Shrek, they are pro-fitness!

12. Hyphens • Hyphens • Use a hyphen after the prefixes all-, ex-, and self- joined to a noun or adjective. • Example: That cat has great self-confidence. • Use a hyphen with the prefix anti- joined with a word beginning with i-, and the prefix vice- except in the case of vice president. • Example: The cat was anti-sunglasses.

13. Numbers • Numbers • Spell out numbers that can be written in one or two words or that appear at the beginning of a sentence. • Example: I have forty-five cents in my wallet. • Express all related numbers in a sentence as numerals. • Example: The pattern showed that 2, 4, 6, and 8, were all even numbers.

14. Numbers • Numbers • Spell out ordinal numbers • Examples: third, fourth, fifth, etc. • Use words for decades, amounts of money that can be written in one or two words, and for the approximate time of day, or when A.M. or P.M. is not used. • Example: Around one o’clock in the summer, everyone feels like they’re melting.

15. Numbers • Numbers • Use numbers for dates, decimals, telephone numbers, street or avenue numbers, page numbers, percentages, sums of money involving both dollars and cents, to emphasize the exact time of day, when A.M. or P.M. is used. • Also use numerals for house, apartment, and room numbers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcGA4alhPas

16. Italics/Underline • Italics/Underline • Italicize or underline the titles of books, plays, films, television series, paintings, sculptures, names of newspapers, and magazines. • Example: The show Friends was popular for many years.

17. Quotation Marks • Quotation Marks • Use quotation marks to indicate titles of short stories, poems, essays, songs, and magazine or newspaper articles. • Example: “Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree” is a good song!

18. Quotation Marks • Dialogue • Use quotation marks to enclose a direct quotation. • Example: “Bye, Buddy,” said Mr. Narwal, “I hope you find your dad!” • Use single quotation marks for a quotation within a quotation. • Example: “Papa Elf told me, ‘Never, ever, ever, give up!’,” said Buddy.

19. Quotation Marks • Dialogue • Always place commas and periods inside closing quotation marks. Place colons and semicolons outside closing quotation marks. Place question marks and exclamation points inside closing quotation marks only when those marks are part of the quotation.

20. What are they saying? • Get out a sheet of paper, write your name on it. • A picture will come up on the screen. • On the paper, write the dialogue that you think the people are using. If there is only one person, write their internal dialogue (what they are thinking). • Use correct punctuation. • Make sure, especially, that your dialogue is punctuated correctly!