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Sotw #7

English 10. Sotw #7. What do you notice?. A sign in a public restroom: Toilet only for disabled elderly pregnant children. A sign outside a state park: Hunters: please use caution when hunting pedestrians using walk trails. A young child at the dinner table: Let’s eat Grandpa!.

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Sotw #7

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  1. English 10 Sotw #7

  2. What do you notice? • A sign in a public restroom: • Toilet only for disabled elderly pregnant children. • A sign outside a state park: • Hunters: please use caution when hunting pedestrians using walk trails. • A young child at the dinner table: • Let’s eat Grandpa!

  3. Commas: sometimes you don’t need one…

  4. …and sometimes you do.

  5. Comma Rules 1. Use commas to separate independent clauses when they are joined by any of these seven coordinating conjunctions: and, but, for, or, nor, so, yet. The Lions beat the Bears yesterday, so I decided to celebrate by dying my hair blue. 2. Use commas after introductory a) clauses, b) phrases, or c) words that come before the main clause. Whenever the Lions win, I run wildly down our street cheering.

  6. Comma Rules (cont.) 3. Use a pair of commas in the middle of a sentence to set off clauses, phrases, and words that are not essential to the meaning of the sentence. Use one comma before to indicate the beginning of the pause and one at the end to indicate the end of the pause. Now that students haven chosen their I- Search topics, which could have been on anything, we are ready to get going. 4. Use commas to separate three or more words, phrases, or clauses written in a series. The I-Search is educational, beneficial and fun.

  7. Comma Rules (cont.) 5. Use commas to separate two or more coordinate adjectives that describe the same noun. Be sure never to add an extra comma between the final adjective and the noun itself or to use commas with non-coordinate adjectives. It was a long, hard football game. 6. Use commas to set off phrases at the end of the sentence that refer back to the beginning or middle of the sentence. Such phrases are free modifiers that can be placed anywhere in the sentence without causing confusion. We had a power outage last week, which was an unexpected free day.

  8. Comma Rules (cont.) 7. Use commas to set off all geographical names, items in dates (except the month and day), addresses (except the street number and name), and titles in names. We visited Detroit, Michigan on October 21st, 2013. 8. Use a comma to shift between the main discourse and a quotation. When I met Calvin Johnson, he said to me, “I’m stronger than Megatron.”

  9. Reading Check • Describe what happens when all four of Singer’s regular visitors show up at the same time in Chapter 7. Be as specific and detailed as you can.

  10. Journal #19: THiaLH Letter • In Chapter 7, Singer writes a letter to Anton in which he describes, in detail, his four regular visitors (Biff, Mick, Copeland and Blount). Choose one of those four characters and write a fictional letter to a distant relative in which you describe Singer and your meetings with him.

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