Today, we are going to share some of the sentences that your wrote yesterday. I want each of your to share two sentences and tell the class what type of sentences they are.
Then we are going to discuss 1) semi-colons and 2) parallelism
You will write a sentence using a semi-colon and a sentence using parallelism.
Finally you will do the grammar exercises below:
A) Sentence Combining
Breakfast is my favorite meal. I like hot
food for breakfast. I prefer eggs and bacon to oatmeal. A good breakfast
always starts my day off right.
B) Punctuation
Put in semicolons, colons, dashes, quotation marks, where ever they are needed in the following sentences.
1. Several countries participated in the airlift Italy, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.
2. Only one course was open to us surrender, said the ex-major, and we did.
3. Judge Carswell later to be nominated for the Supreme Court had ruled against civil rights.
4. In last week's New Yorker, one of my favorite magazines, I enjoyed reading Leland's article How Not to Go Camping.
5. Yes, Jim said, I'll be home by ten.
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