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MUG Sentence #1 8-31-10

MUG Sentence #1 8-31-10. once upon a time in a school not so very disparate from yours, a young man named charlie excess led a very dull, one sided life. Grammar Rules: Capitalization *First word in every sentence. *Beginning and ending of a letter. *The pronoun “I” and the interjection “O”

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MUG Sentence #1 8-31-10

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  1. MUG Sentence #1 8-31-10 once upon a time in a school not so very disparate from yours, a young man named charlie excess led a very dull, one sided life. Grammar Rules: Capitalization *First word in every sentence. *Beginning and ending of a letter. *The pronoun “I” and the interjection “O” *Geographical names

  2. MUG Sentence #2 9/9/10 all day he attended horribly hard high school and all evening his nose was buried in his books. Grammar Rules: Capitalization *Proper Nouns and Proper Adjectives (People, places, things and adjectives that describe a proper noun) *Names of people and animals *Initials in names and abbreviations that come before or after names.

  3. MUG Sentence #3 9/14/10 charlie was a straight A student who did nothing but attend class, study, and sleep. He never went out and didn’t even dress up for halloween. Every friday he would go straight home to work on his homework, without going to see the HHHS pandas play football! Grammar Rules: Capitalization Names of historical events and periods, special events, holidays, and other calendar items. Names of organizations, teams, government bodies, and institutions.

  4. MUG Sentence #4 9/27/10 He never attends parties does not participate in any sports and doesn’t know many girls except Suzie Meritorious. He isn’t even sure what she looks like since her nose is always buried in textbooks such as “The Joys of Boring English” “Algebra for the Insane” and “For the Love of Biology.” Grammar Rules: Commas Use commas to separate items in a series. If all items in a series are combined using and, or, or nor, do not use commas to separate them. Use a comma before and, but, for, nor, so, or yet when it joins independent clauses. Short, independent clauses may be separated with a comma. Use commas to separate two or more adjectives preceding a noun.

  5. MUG Sentence #5 9/28/10 While Charlie’s parents were pleased with his grades they still found a plethora of picky things with which to nag and torture their only son. They told him that they had a serious problem with his A- classwork in biology english and history. • Grammar Rules: Commas • Use commas to separate items in a series. • If all items in a series are combined using and, or, or nor, do not use commas to separate them. • Use a comma before and, but, for, nor, so, or yet when it joins independent clauses. • Short, independent clauses may be separated with a comma. • Use commas to separate two or more adjectives preceding a noun.

  6. MUG Sentence #6 9/30/10 Charlie who was considered one of the brightest students in his class earned all A-’s yet his parents pondered why he didn’t get all A+’s. • Grammar Rules: Commas • Use commas to set off nonessential clauses and phrases. Nonessential clauses and phrases add information that is not necessary to the main idea of the sentence. • When a clause or phrase tells which ones, it is essential and commas are not used.

  7. MUG #7 11/4/10 Further issues between Charlie and his parents were Charlie’s room and Charlie’s bedtime and the fact that Charlie never seemed to have any friends over even though Charlie’s parents didn’t allow him much time to socialize. Glaring at his parents. Charlie put his clothes in the hamper. Made his bed. • Grammar Rules: Fragments and Run-Ons *Looking back at your other notes, correct the following sentences. If there is a fragment, add to the sentence. If the sentence is a run-on, correct this as well.

  8. MUG #8 11/8/10 Charlie made his bed daily put his clothing in the hamper and threw all his trash in the appropriate place but his parents still nagged him. All the time. His mom the neat freak fretted because the bedspread wasn’t tucked appropriately around the pillow she didn’t accept any excuses. This Charlie angry.

  9. MUG #9 11/9/10 His desk was never neat enough to please his mom there were school books. Piled neatly on top. Charlie's dad the disciplinarian of the family complained if Charlie's light was on 1 minute after ten o’clock even when Charlie had to study. For a major test. Grammar: Correct for fragments and run-ons!!

  10. MUG #10 11/10/10 Charlie's parents nagged him about bedtime. Laundry his clothes and his room in short they were never satisfied. Charlie loathed it. “I’m a good kid,” he said to himself, “I don’t do bad things like other kids do,” he muttered.

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