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Class: Grammar Review Activity 1

FALL FINAL

I. Colons: Review your notes from our Trial Reflection Day. There are 2 uses for colons: 1. _______________________________ 2. _______________________________ (replaces the word) ____________________ Insert the colon properly into the sentences below. Explain why your use of colon is correct in the space provided. 1. A liberal arts education creates citizens themselves and the world. people who can think broadly and critically about

2. It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." (Mark Twain) 3. John has a serious problem he does not know how to relax. II. Semicolons & Comma+Conjunctions: Review your notes on separating independent clauses with a semicolon (theoatmeal.com worksheet). Identify the following sentences as a run-on or no error. Fix the run on sentences. 1. RUN ON / NO ERROR Justin Biebers new Christmas album is amazing I cant wait to listen to it all day every day! 2. RUN ON / NO ERROR On Christmas day, my family eats breakfast, goes to church, opens presents, and has dinner at my grandmothers house. 3. RUN ON / NO ERROR On our break from school, Im just going to sit back and relax, I want to do nothing but watch movies and eat cookies on my couch. 4. RUN ON / NO ERROR Im going to a huge party for New Years Eve, its going to be awesome. 5. RUN ON / NO ERROR The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, but Mom forgot to put out milk and cookies for Santa. 6. RUN ON / NO ERROR I wish it snowed in San Francisco I really want to try out the sled I received as a Hanukkah gift. 7. RUN ON / NO ERROR The church choir sounded beautiful on Christmas morning, their voices sang louder than ever during the Hallelujah chorus.

III. Dashes: Review your notes from the Salmon Lady Video and the Keynote slides. A dash can be used in 3 ways: 1. _____________________________ 2. _____________________________ 3. _____________________________ Typically, dashes add one or both of two things: 1. ____________________________ 2. ____________________________ If you include 2 dashes to interrupt a sentence, then the phrase inside the dashes ( CAN / CANNOT) be a complete sentence. 1. Most guys at Pencey just talked about having sexual intercourse with girls all the time like Ackley, for instancebut old Stradlater really did it. I was personally acquainted with at least two girls he gave the time to. --Holden Caulfield Highlight the dashes. They interrupt the sentence in order to add _________________. 2. I dont give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I amI really dobut people never notice it. People never notice anything. --Holden Caulfield Highlight the dashes. They interrupt the sentence in order to add _________________. 3. After eighty years of dreaming, the elderly man realized it was time to finally revisit the land of his youthIreland. Highlight the dash. It adds ___________________ to the main idea of the sentence.

My hand still hurts me once in a while when it rains and all, and I cant make a real fist anymore not a tight one, I meanbut outside of that I dont care much. I mean Im not going to be a goddam surgeon or a violinist or anything anyway.