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08 Friday Feb 2013
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04 Monday Feb 2013
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Nouns (success), verbs (succeed), adjectives (successful), adverbs (successfully) and interjections (wow!) are sub-grouped into content words, namely, words that provide the concepts and ideas underlying the sentence. Content words are constantly being added to or removed from the language (an open word class), as changing usage patterns influence dynamic changes in a language’s vocabulary.
Conversely, Determiners (the), pronouns (we), prepositions (at) and conjunctions (and) are sub-grouped into structure words, whose number almost always stays constant in a language (closed word class). These are words that tie the content words together into a grammatically correct sentence and reflect the inner
grammar rules of the language structure. These, as opposed to content words, change very slowly, if at all, throughout a language’s history.It is vital for any English writer to be familiar with the parts of speech in order to have the terminology to study and analyze the language and identify mistakes in writing. Moreover, a word can function as a different part of speech depending on its role in the
sentence structure (the terms of which are also vital for successful writing). This affects the word’s meaning and structure, making it important to confirm whether you are using the correct part of speech in the correct position in the sentence.They also showed an object found in the scene of the crime as exhibit A.
[ object is a noun, meaning a physical item]
03 Sunday Feb 2013
All those TV commercials aren’t helping Billy with his spelling!
Some of the alternative spellings (“creme” for “cream” when a company isn’t using the real thing) are necessary. Others are attempts to be cute or different.
Luckily Billy (and the rest of us) can use spellcheck for most writing projects. And we can remember that spelling doesn’t correlate with writing ability (FDR couldn’t spell many simple words).
02 Saturday Feb 2013
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02 Saturday Feb 2013
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1. To join two independent clauses, use a comma followed by a conjunction, a semicolon alone, or a semicolon followed by a sentence modifier.
2. Use commas to bracket nonrestrictive phrases, which are not essential to the sentence’s meaning.
3. Do not use commas to bracket phrases that are essential to a sentence’s meaning.
4. When beginning a sentence with an introductory phrase or an introductory (dependent) clause, include a comma.
5. To indicate possession, end a singular noun with an apostrophe followed by an “s”. Otherwise, the noun’s form seems plural.
6. Use proper punctuation to integrate a quotation into a sentence. If the introductory material is an independent clause, add the quotation after a colon. If the introductory material ends in “thinks,” “saying,” or some other verb indicating expression, use a comma.
7. Make the subject and verb agree with each other, not with a word that comes between them.
8. Be sure that a pronoun, a participial phrase, or an appositive refers clearly to the proper subject.
9. Use parallel construction to make a strong point and create a smooth flow.
10. Use the active voice unless you specifically need to use the passive.
11. Omit unnecessary words.
02 Saturday Feb 2013
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Week #1 | ||
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1. innocuous 2. shriek 3. yield 4. disappear 5. seizure 6. conceited 7. revise 8. accidental |
9. caffeine 10. exercise 11. reign 12. weird 13. equipped 14. suddenness 15. misstate 16. worshiper |
17. referred 18. advertise 19. quizzed 20. retained 21. annulled 22. misspelling 23. coolly 24. receive 25. shield |
Week #2 | ||
1. deficient 2. prohibited 3. criticize 4. acquitted 5. referred 6. sincerely 7. bookkeeper 8. newsstand |
9. vacillate 10. villain 11. unskillful 12. parallel 13. all right 14. leisure 15. forfeit 16. sieve |
17. collaborate 18. mischievous 19. omniscient 20. hierarchy 2l. mischief 22. surprise 23. sovereign 24. perceive 25. feign |
Week #3 | ||
1. inflexible 2. satellite 3. appearance 4. parallel 5. accelerate 6. occurrence 7. supersede 8. manageable |
9. dissimilar 10. relevance 11. traceable 12. antecedent 13. enforceable 14. judgment 15. preference 16. abundance |
17. rarefy 18. anoint 19. battalion 20. assess 21. grievous 22. innuendo 23. valuable 24. specify 25. eligible |
Week #4 | ||
1. passable 2. admirable 3. forfeit 4. decisively 5. arguable 6. commitment 7. preferred 8. argument |
9. consensus 10. sustenance 11. occasional 12. energy 13. quotient 14. gullible 15. discernible 16. desirable |
17. sufficient 18. movable 19. irresistible 20. livable 2l. embarrassed 22. demagogue 33. deterrence 24. sheriff 25. miscellaneous |
Week #5 | ||
1. privilege 2. exhilarate 3. colossal 4. numskull 5. superintendent 6. merchandise 7. khaki 8. sacrilegious |
9. trespass 10. resuscitate 11. absence 12. allege 13. supersede 14. concede 15. conscience 16. disagree |
17. insistence 18. rhythm 19. minimize 20. occurrence 2l. adolescent 22. abscess 23. pastime 24. analyze 25. precede |
Week #6 | ||
1. synagogue 2. repetition 3. hypocrisy 4. sensitive. 5. obsession 6. arrival 7. harass 8. proceed |
9. ecstasy 10. relief 11. compelled 12. forty 13. tobacco 14. threshold 15. ancient 16. separate |
17. committee 18. presumptuous 19. agreeable 20. exceed 2l. disheveled 22. heresy 23. concurred 24. tariff 25. accommodate |
Week #7 | ||
1. complement 2. counterfeit 3. dilemma 4. broccoli 5. corroborate 6. negligible 7. financier 8. conscientious |
9. contemptible 10. bachelor 11. appalling 12. necessary 13. obscene 14. excise 15. loneliness 16. usable |
17. governor 18. foreign 19. susceptible 20. fierce 21. indispensable 22. vacancy 31. succumb 24. copyright 25. secession |
Week #8 | ||
1. suppress 2. irascible 3. wield 4. stationery 5. believe6. besiege 7. orator 8. anonymous |
9. adamant 10. wholly 11. hemorrhage 12. withhold 13. profited 14. oppressive 15. plausible 16. thoroughly |
17. facetious 18. repressible 19. maneuver 20. brief 21. skepticism 22. dumbfound 23. sergeant 24. omitted 25. occurred |
02 Saturday Feb 2013
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Rules 1. In most cases, an adverb is formed by adding ‘-ly’ to an adjective: Adjective Adverb cheap quick slow cheaply quickly slowly Examples: Time …