Thursday

 Today we are going to discuss 1) colons and dashes; 2) parallelism, and 3) work on grammar and sentence combining.

A) Sentence combining

ombine each of the following into one sentence.

1) The bear was big. The bear broke open the garbage. The bear ate the left over pizza. Dan's father shot the bear. Dan cried.

2) Espionage is the secret collection of intelligent information. The history of espionage goes back over two thousand years. Espionage was started in China by Sun Tzu.

B) 1) Write a sentence using a colon.

2) Write a sentence using a dash.

3) Write a sentence using parallelism.

4) Write a compound-complex sentence.

5) Write a sentence using a semi-colon to connect two independence clauses.

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