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Hemingway Skills and Explanations. Unclear Antecedent

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  1. Hemingway Skills and Explanations Unclear Antecedent An antecedent is the noun to which a pronoun refers. If the antecedent is unclear-difficult to decide the noun to which the pronoun refers-correct the pronoun by using a specific noun in its place. If the pronouns you and they are used, make sure that there is actually an antecedent identifiable in the passage. Be careful not to use the same propsition twice to refer to two different antecedents. At times, a sentence can be rewritten to bring the pronoun closer to its antecedent and thus make the antecedent clear. Tim asked him if he knew him. To whom do the him's refer? Tim asked Marcus if Marcus knew Michael. Day 1 Use of You Only use the word you if you are speaking directly to the reader. If you mean people in general, use one rather than you. If you are referring to yourself, use I.

  2. Capitalization of Names of Historical Events The names of historic events are proper nouns and are, thus, capitalized. the Civil War the Revolutionary War the Industrial Revolution Titles of Short Stories The titles of short stories are enclosed in quotation marks since they are not book-length works. I love the short story "Janus" by Ann Beattie.

  3. Day 2 Choppy Sentences In order to make it more pleasant to read, sentence variety--variations in length and sentence type--adds ease of reading and interest to a piece of writing. A series of short, simple sentences should be combined to add variety and make writing more concise. Coordinate Adjectives If two adjectives modify a noun in the same way, place a comma between the two adjectives. These are called coordinate adjectives. There is a two-part test for coordinate adjectives: (1) Can you replace the comma with the word and? (2) Can you reverse the order of the adjectives and keep the same meaning? If you can do both, then you have coordinate adjectives. Coordinate adjectives require that you place a comma between them when they appear in a series.

  4. Spelling: I before E Rule i before e except after c Or when sounded as "I" as in Einstein or when sounding like a as in neighbor and weigh Neither, weird, foreign, leisure Seize, forfeit, and height Are the common exceptions spelled right But don't let the C-I-E-N words get you uptight! Examples ie = believe, field, yield, priest, shield cei=receive, receipt, conceited, conceive "i" = eiEileen, height, sleight, stein, Einstein "a" = ei weigh, weight, neighbor, sleigh, heir, their "X" = eieither, weirdo, foreigner "X" = eiseizure, forfeiture, protein, caffeine, heifer cien = cien!=science, efficient, sufficient, conscience, ancient,

  5. Compound Sentence A compound sentence is a sentence comprised of two complete independent clauses joined with a comma and a coordinating conjunction. Day 3 Correlative Conjunctions Conjunctions are words used to link things together. Correlative conjunctions are two conjunctions that always appear together in a sentence. The most common correlative conjunctions are either...or, neither...nor, not only...but also, and whether...or. Coordinating Conjunctions A coordinating conjunction is a word which joins together two independent clauses (has both a subject and predicate) that are equally important. A comma comes before the conjunction. The most common coordinating conjunctions are the following: and--joins two similar ideas but--joins two contrasting ideas or--joins two alternative ideas so--shows that the second idea is the result of the firstnor nor--joins two negative alternatives for--meaning because yet--meaning but

  6. Illogical Comparison When you have something being called a better noun than any, you are making an illogical comparison. If it is better than any, then you must put better than any other because, without this addition, this statement automatically includes what is being called better . Something cannot be better than itself. The president of the eleventh grade class, Sabrina, is a better psychopath than any in the eleventh grade. (This would mean that she is better than herself.) The president of the eleventh grade class, Sabrina, is a better psychopath than any other student in the eleventh grade. (Correct)

  7. Day 4 Run-on Sentence: Corrected with Separate Sentences If a run-on sentence has clauses that cannot be subordinated or that are not highly related, split the run-on into separate sentences. Quotation Marks around Phrases When you want to call attention to specific words or phrases, place quotation marks around the word or phrase.

  8. Day 5 Commonly Confused Words: Whose versus Who's Whose is used as the possessive form of who. Who's is a contraction meaning who is.

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