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26 Cards in this Set
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Chap1: Intro: The 3Cs
What are the 3Cs? |
Correctness: grammer
Concision: brevity Clarity: intelligibility |
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Chap1: Intro: The 3Cs
Clarity: Imp points |
Word placement
Known/Unknown Certain/Uncertain Hypothetical/Actual No Redundancy |
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Chap1: Intro: The 3Cs
Clarity: Such As vs. Like |
Such As: specific examples
Like: similarity |
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Chap2: Subject-Verb Agreement
Eliminate the Middle-man |
Look at the sentence by removing the intervening phrase starting with "of", "along with", "in addition to"
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Chap2: Subject-Verb Agreement
Singular or Plural "Or", "Either.. Or", "Neither.. Nor" |
Depends on who is nearest to the verb.
Neither Joe nor his friends ARE going to the beach. Neither his friends nor Joe IS going to the beach. |
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Chap2: Subject-Verb Agreement
Collective Nouns |
Singular
e.g. Administration, army, audience, class, crowd, faculty, orchestra, team. |
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Chap2: Subject-Verb Agreement
Indefinite pronouns |
Usually Singular
e.g. Anyone, Anybody, Anything, Everyone, Everybody, Everything, Whatever, Whoever, Either, Neither (when not paired with or/nor), Someone, Somebody, Something, No one, Nobody, Nothing, Each, Every |
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Chap2: Subject-Verb Agreement
Exceptions: SANAM |
Singular or Plural
Some, Any, None, All, Most e.g. Some of the money WAS... Some of the documents WERE... |
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Chap2: Subject-Verb Agreement
The number of/A number of |
The number of - Singular
A number of - Plural The numbers of - WRONG |
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Chap2: Subject-Verb Agreement
Other Numerical Words majority, minority, plurality |
If one means the many individual parts of the totality, then use a plural verb form.
e.g. The majority of the students in this class ARE hard workers. The student majority IS opposed to the death penalty. |
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Chap2: Subject-Verb Agreement
A subject phrase |
Singular
Having good friends IS a wonderful thing. |
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Chap3: Verb Tense, Mood, & Voice
Infinitives: Word between to and verb |
Wrong
Incorrect: I need you TO quickly RUN out to the store. Correct: I need you TO RUN quickly out to the store. |
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Chap3: Verb Tense, Mood, & Voice
Tricky Verb/SimplePast/PastParticiple |
Hang(object):hung:hung
Hang(person):hanged:hanged Lay(to put):laid:laid Lie(xtruth):lied:lied Lie(to recline):lay:lain |
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Chap3: Verb Tense, Mood, & Voice
If... Then construction Only 3 tense combinations |
IF clause... THEN clause
Present... will+base verb Past... would/could+base verb Past Perfect... would/could have + past participle e.g If you study, you will score highly. If you studied, you would score highly. If you had studied, you would have scored highly. |
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Chap3: Verb Tense, Mood, & Voice
If... Then construction |
would and could NEVER appear in the IF clause.
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Chap3: Verb Tense, Mood, & Voice
"If" or "Whether" |
If there is no conditional sentence, use Whether
e.g. I don't know WHETHER I will go to the dance. |
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Chap3: Verb Tense, Mood, & Voice
The Subjunctive Mood IF clause |
Always use WERE and not WAS with IF clause.
e.g. If he WERE tall, he... |
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Chap3: Verb Tense, Mood, & Voice
The Subjunctive Mood Uncertainty:Hopes, proposals, desires, and requests |
that+infinitive form
e.g. It is urgent that she SIGN the permission slip. |
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Chap4: Sentence Correction
Pronouns: Subject/Object |
Question: Who? -> subject.
Subject: Object: Possessive I:me:mine,my you:you:your,yours he:him:his she:her:her,hers it:it:its(NOT it's) we:us:our,ours they:them:their,theirs who:whom:whose |
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Chap4: Sentence Correction
The Deadly Four: It, Its, They, Their |
Their is plural
Incorrect: When the person calls, take down THEIR info. Correct: When the parson calls, take down HIS info OR Correct: When the people call, take down THEIR info. |
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Chap4: Sentence Correction
Pronouns Everyonehere will need THEIR/HIS own pencil |
HIS
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Chap5: Sentence Correction
Modifiers Adverbs modify... Adjectives modity... |
Adverbs modify... verb.
(But it can also describe an adjective, another adverb, a preposition or a phrase!!!) Adjectives modity... noun/pronoun. |
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Chap5: Sentence Correction
Modifiers Adverbs are formed by adding -ly to the adjective. My friend Katy is a REAL/REALLY interesting person. |
REALLY
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Chap5: Sentence Correction
Modifiers A modifying phrase should not be separated from the noun it modifies. |
Incorrect: Kendra is happy, like all her friends, to be on vacation.
Correct: Kendra, like all her friends, is happy to be on vacation. OR Correct: Like all her friends, Kendra is happy to be on vacation. |
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Chap5: Sentence Correction
Modifiers Adverbial phrase does not need to touch the word being modified. |
The running back ran towards the end zone, FASTER & HARDER THAN HE HAD EVER RUN BEFORE.
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Chap5: Sentence Correction
Modifiers Adverbial phrase does not need to touch the word being modified. |
The running back ran towards the end zone, FASTER & HARDER THAN HE HAD EVER RUN BEFORE.
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