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Working with Shurley English. Using the rules By. Mrs. Garcia . How to find the rules. Shurley English uses two types of rule categories: Capitalization rules and Punctuation Rules To find the rule number students must ask themselves questions such as,
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Working with Shurley English Using the rules By. Mrs. Garcia
How to find the rules • Shurley English uses two types of rule categories: Capitalization rules and Punctuation Rules • To find the rule number students must ask themselves questions such as, • “Is this a punctuation or capitalization correction?” • “Where is this word located in the sentence, beginning, middle, or end?” • For capitalization ask: Is this word a person, place, time, or other random capitalization rule? • Next, find key words to help you locate the section in which the rules belong. For example if the word describes or names a person, the section will always be #2: Capitalize Names, Initials, and Titles of People. • For punctuation rules ask: What section talks about commas and place, commas and times, commas to make meanings clear, end-mark punctuation, and so on.
Capitalization and Punctuation Rules • Capitalization Rules are located on pages 13-14 in the student edition Shurley English textbook. • Punctuation Rules are located on pages 17-19 in the student edition Shurley English textbook. • Both sets of rules can be found under the Shurley English tab on my personal website at sagarcia04.weebly.com
How to Use the Rules • The sentence below is already correct. You must use the rules to label the correction. • All capitalization rules go above the letter while all punctuation rules go below the punctuation under the sentence. • Sally, my friend, lives in Ohio. • We have two capitalization rules to find and three punctuation rules to find (sometimes rules and be the same in a sentence)
Sally, my friend, lives in Ohio. • First, we must set up our sentence and draw our lines for capitalization rules or punctuation rules. • You should have two capitalization rules to find and three punctuation rules to find. • Let’s begin by looking at JUST the capitalized words. • What two letters are capitalized? • The S in Sally and the O in Ohio. • What is Sally? • Sally is a human, person, or girl. • And where is Sally located in the sentence? (beginning, middle, or end) • Beginning. • So, we can look at Section 1 of the capitalization rules for a rule that says we need to capitalize the beginning of a sentence.
1 Sally, my friend, lives in Ohio. What rule in Section 1 talks about capitalizing the first word of a sentence? -Rule #1 Write a number 1 above the S in Sally.
1 14 Sally, my friend, lives in Ohio. What is Ohio? -A state What Section should we look in? -Section 4 What rule says we should capitalize a state? - Rule # 14 Put a 14 above the O in Ohio.
1 14 Sally, my friend, lives in Ohio. 11 11 Do we have any more capitalizations? Next, we need to look at our punctuation rules. We have two commas and a period Can we take out my friend and the sentence still makes sense? -Yes Are we looking for rules that relate to commas and time? -No Are we looking for rules that relate to commas and a place? -No So, the only other section about commas is Section 4. What rule talks about using commas to set off most appositives, or to rename the word or words before the comma? -11, PUT AN 11 UNDER EACH COMMA.
1 14 Sally, my friend, lives in Ohio. 11 11 1 Our last punctuation mark is the period. What Section talks about end-marks? -Section 1 What rule talks about using a period at the end of a sentence that makes a statement? -Rule 1 Put a #1 below the period after Ohio.
This is how we add rules to a sentence. • Familiarizing yourself with the rules will help you understand how to edit your writing and eventually lead you to write error-free compositions.