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The Hero Skills and Principles

The Hero Skills and Principles. Day 1. Possession of Nouns Nouns take either an 's or an s' to show possession. Antecedent The antecedent of a pronoun is the noun to which a pronoun refers. Proper Adjectives Proper adjectives are adjectives created from proper nouns. As with

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The Hero Skills and Principles

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  1. The Hero Skills and Principles Day 1 Possession of Nouns Nouns take either an 's or an s' to show possession. Antecedent The antecedent of a pronoun is the noun to which a pronoun refers. Proper Adjectives Proper adjectives are adjectives created from proper nouns. As with proper nouns, proper adjectives need to be capitalized. Nationalities are proper adjectives. (Spanish, French, Hispanic)

  2. Run-on Sentence: Fused sentence Run-on sentences happen when there are two independent clauses not separated by any form of punctuation at all or by an incorrect form such as a comma by itself. When there is no punctuation between sentences, the error is also known as a fused sentence. The error can be corrected by adding a comma and a conjunction, a period, a semicolon, or a colon to separate the two sentences. Run-on Sentence: Corrected with a Semicolon One way to correct a run-on sentence is to place a semicolon between the two independent clauses. Do this if both clauses are related in idea very strongly.

  3. Day 2 Parallel structure Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance or are related in their function in the sentence. Double-negatives: Scarcely and Hardly Scarcely and hardly are already negative adverbs. To add another negative term is redundant, because in English only one negative is ever used at a time. They found scarcely any animals on the island. (not scarcely no...) Hardly anyone came to the party. (not hardly no one...) Commas in a Series When one has a group of elements that are coordinate and in series, there must be commas between the elements. The comma before the conjunction and the final element is optional.

  4. A versus An a + singular noun beginning with a consonant: a boy an + singular noun beginning with a vowel: an elephant a + singular noun beginning with a consonant sound: a user (sounds like 'yoo-zer,' i.e. begins with a consonant 'y' sound, so 'a' is used) some + plural noun: some girls If the noun is modified by an adjective, the choice between a and an depends on the initial sound of the adjective that immediately follows the article: a broken egg/an unusual problem/a European country (sounds like 'yer-o-pi-an,' i.e. begins with consonant 'y' sound) Note also that in English, the indefinite articles are used to indicate members in a profession, nation, or religion. Seiko is a practicing Buddhist.

  5. Day 3 Active Voice versus Passive Voice Active voice has the subject doing something to the object. Passive voice has something being done to the subject by an unknown agent or by something in the prepositional phrase by _______________.Use active voice as much as possible. Only use passive when you have a specific reason. And or But at the Beginning of a Sentence In formal writing, eliminate the conjunctions and or but at the beginning of sentences. This helps to make sure that you do not write a sentence fragment. Commonly Confused Words: Bring versus Take Bring to and take from are the correct usages of these verbs.

  6. Day 4 Capitalization of Name of Region When a direction is being used as the name of a region, it should be capitalized. When it is a direction that someone or something is going or located, it should be in lower case letters. A clue that a direction is being used as a name is when the word the appears before the direction. I would like to live in the West. You need to turn west at the fork in the road. Adverbs Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. They often end in –ly. Adjectives can only modify nouns and pronouns. Titles of Movies The titles of movies are underlined or italicized. Don't you just love the movie Spiderman?

  7. Day 5 Commonly Confused Words: Your versus You're Your is used as the possessive form of the pronoun you. You're is a contraction meaning you are. Forming the Past Participle The past participle of regular verbs is formed by adding -d or -ed to the base form of the verb. Some past participles are irregular (do not follow the above formation rule). A few of these are the following: know known fall fallen speak spoken feel felt begin begun make made eat eaten drive driven become become show shown fly flown leave left

  8. Commas in a Series When one has a group of elements that are coordinate and in series, there must be commas between the elements. The comma before the conjunction and the final element is optional.

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