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Advanced Composition Grammar Blitz

Advanced Composition Grammar Blitz. Unit I- Parts of Speech . Nouns : p . 433, Ex. 7 Pronouns : p . 442, Ex. 23 Verbs : p . 445, Ex. 29; p . 449, Ex. 36 Adjectives : p . 456, Ex. 52 Adverbs : p . 461, Ex. 61, 62, & 63 Prepositions : p . 465, Ex. 68

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Advanced Composition Grammar Blitz

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  1. Advanced Composition Grammar Blitz

  2. Unit I- Parts of Speech • Nouns: p. 433, Ex. 7 • Pronouns: p. 442, Ex. 23 • Verbs: p. 445, Ex. 29; p. 449, Ex. 36 • Adjectives: p. 456, Ex. 52 • Adverbs: p. 461, Ex. 61, 62, & 63 • Prepositions: p. 465, Ex. 68 • Conjunctions: p. 470, Ex. 75; p. 474, Ex. 83

  3. Unit II - Phrases • Prepositional Phrases: p. 512, Ex. 1 • Appositive Phrases: p. 513, Ex. 4 • Participial Phrases: p. 516, Ex. 8 • Gerund Phrases: p. 517, Ex. 10 • Infinitive Phrases: p. 519, Ex. 13 • Absolute Phrases: p. 521, Ex. 15

  4. Great criticism… • “Kerouac’s dynamism stems, at least in part, from his grammatical manipulation of language. He couches as much of his narration as he can in reclassified verb-iage, documenting the jazz-and-Benzydrene-hysterics of Sal and Dean in the likes of mountains of participles and gerunds…. • …Implicitly, therefore—and not even including the verb phrases themselves—the very substance of his sentences is rendered active” (Valvano, 64).

  5. Unit III-Sentence Structure: Clauses, Fragments, & Run-Ons • Main Clauses: p. 533, Ex. 1 • Main vs. Subordinate Clauses: p. 534, Ex. 3 • Simple & Compound Sentences: p. 536, Ex. 4 & 5 • Complex & Compound-Complex: p. 538, Ex. 6 & 7 • Sentence Fragments: p. 547, Ex. 21** • Fragments/Run-Ons: p. 551, Ex. 25 - Part 1**

  6. Unit IV – Intelligent Punctuation • The Colon: p. 713, Ex. 4 • The Semi-Colon: p. 715, Ex. 5 • The Comma: • p. 720, Ex. 7 • p. 722, Ex. 8 • The Dash: p. 725, Ex. 10

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