Final - English 101 with Hammersmith at Liberty University

Skye C.

Size: 17

Fragment

incomplete sentence because:

-it lacks a subject

-it lacks a verb

-it lacks both

-it is a dependent clause

(which glaring error is this)No point in cryingover lost luggage.

fragment, add "there is " at the beginning or something similar

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Comma splice

2 independent clause are joined by a a comma alone

(which glaring error is this) The president rose to speak, the audience listened

comma splice

Fused sentence

2 independent clauses are joined w/ no conjuction or punction

(which glaring error is this) Roscoe was dripping wet, he had just run ten miles.

fused sentence

Name 5 ways to fix this sentence: Roscoe was dripping wet, he had just run ten miles.

1. use a semicolon (wet; he)

2. coordinating conjunctions (wet, for he)

3. semicolon+conjunctive adverb (he had just run ten miles; therefore, he was...)

4. 2 sentences. (wet. He)

5.subordinating conjuction (wet after he)

Subject-verb aggreement error

occurs when the subject and verb (or helping verb) endings agree in number and person

To many people the royal family (symbolizes, symbolize) Great Britan.

symbolizes

(which glaring error is this) Each of the girls completed (their, her) exams

pronoun and antecedent aggreement error, her

what is the missed placed modifier & fix it: He felt that the faculty only wanted to keep class sizes smaller

only, (wanted only to)

Dangling modifier

not midifing anything in that particular sentence

(which glaring error is this) Considering the circumstances, Jerry shouldn't be ready for tomorrow's game.

Dangling modifier

Parallelism

using the same grammatical form or structure for equal ideas in a list or comparison. Helps show the relationship between ideas.

Uses of a comma

1. setting off indepent cause

2. setting off items in a series

3. setting off introductory elements

4. setting nonessential material from the rest of the sentence

5. preventing misreading

Semicolon (;)

weaker than a period but stronger than a comma. only used between items of equal grammatical rank, such as 2 independent clauses, 2 phrases, and so on

Uses semicolon

1. use semicolon to separate independent clauses.

2. between 2 closely related independent clauses when the second clause is introduced by a transitional word or phase

3.between items in a series when one or more of those items include commas

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