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Teaching Keys - Style Sentences and Mechanics
Teaching Keys - Style Sentences and Mechanics
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Sentence Variety
1. Vary sentence types and clause connections. 2. Vary the length of your sentences. 3. Use coordination to connect clauses of equal importance. 4. Balance coordination with subordination. Subordinate less important ideas. 5. Vary the beginnings of your sentences. 6. Experiment with word order.
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Conjunctions
Prepositions
Interjections
Express emotion.
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Types of Pronouns
Personal (I, me, you, him) Possessive + noun (my, your, her) Possessive, no noun (mine, yours) Demonstrative (this, that, these) Indefinite (any, anybody) Reflexive/intensive (myself, yourself) Interrogative (who, what) Relative (who, which, that)
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Relative Pronouns
Human antecedent
Subject: who Object: whom, that Possessive: whose
Nonhuman antecedent
Subject: that, which Object: that, which Possessive: of which, whose
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1. Include all punctuation in URLs and e-mail addresses. 2. Be sure capitalization is exact. 3. Avoid splitting URLs and addresses. 4. In writing for the Web, underlining indicates a hyperlink. To indicate titles, use italics instead. 5. In formal contexts, avoid abbreviations such as BTW (by the way). 6. Avoid shouting. Use capitals with restraint.
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