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- 2. Why is grammarimportant? • Classroom assignments • Being professional • Teachers/Professors • Employers • Everyday world
- 3. Commas •Listing comma •Joining comma •Gappingcomma •Bracketing comma •Interjecting comma •Speech comma http://www.jprof.com/writing/rulesforusingcommas.html
- 4. Listing (Oxford) Comma A listing comma can always be replaced by the word and or or. http://iroirodori.blogspot.com/2012/01/oxford-comma.html
- 5. Joining Comma A joining comma must be followed by one of the connecting words and, or, but, yet or while. http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-use-commas
- 6. Gapping Comma A gapping comma indicates that you have decided not to repeat some words which have already occurred in the sentence.
- 7. Bracketing Comma Bracketing commas alwayscome in pairs and they always set off a weak interruption which could in principle be removed from the sentence.
- 8. Interjecting Comma This is the comma to indicate a pause in the sentence. http://www.dailywritingtips.com/punctuation-saves-lives/
- 9. Speech Comma Before you use quotation marks, you should insert a comma http://cheezburger.com/cratchmaster/lolz/View/5760568576
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- 11. it’s its is a contraction for indicates it is or it has possession
- 12. your/ you’re Your: describes possession.In other words, you own something. You’re: is a contraction of “you are”
- 13. then/than Then is used Than is used for time as in in comparison to show the to show the order in which quality of an you did a items or series of person versus events. another item or person.
- 14. their/there/they’re Their: is possessive meaning it owns something. There: refers to a place or idea. They’re: is a contraction of “they are”
- 15. who’s/ whose Who’s isa Whose poses contraction of the question “who is” of possession
- 16. Capitalization 15 rules of capitalization http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/capitalization/Grammar-Capitalization-Rules.html
- 17. Rule Number Eight Alwayscapitalize the first and last words of titles of publications regardless of their parts of speech. Capitalize other words within titles, including the short verb forms Is, Are, and Be. http://www.goodexperience.com/tib/archives/2006/02/dummies_book_ti.html http://damnwonderfulworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/12-strange-book-tittle.html
- 18. Rule Number Eleven Do not capitalize names of seasons. http://seasonswithpurpose.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html
- 19. Rule Number Twelve Capitalizethe first word of a salutation and the first word of a complimentary close. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/81328571/Chrysanthemum-Letter-Home-Ms-Dyer-Website
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- 21. Lose/Loose Opposite Opposite of win of tight http://typingwithfakenails.blogspot.com/2011/10/dominican-profile-of-week-juan-bosch.html http://janinvuosi.co.cc/about.html
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- 24. Information from… • http://www.copyblogger.com/5-common-mistakes-that-make- you-look-dumb/ •http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/department/docs/punctua tion/node14.html • http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/capital.asp • http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling