ESL 970G Advanced Grammar
Review and Editing
Spring 2005 Syllabus
Section 32959 Online
Online
Resources | Correction
Symbols | Academic
Regulations and Standards |
Online Quiz FAQs | The
Compleat Lexical Tutor | Academic
Word List (AWL) | Applied
English Grammar on the web | Students
| Marsha
Chan's home page | Email marsha_chan@wvmccd.cc.ca.us
| Success
Secrets
Week | 1
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
| 6 | 7 | 8 | Spring
Break | 9 | 10 | 11
| 12 | 13 | 14 |
15 | 16
Getting
Started in Distance Learning
What is Distance Learning?
Are You Ready for Distance Learning?
Survey: Are you prepared to learn online?
What Makes a Successful Distance Learner?
Week
1 beginning Jan 31
Wed Feb 2, 4:00-7:00 pm Orientation Session
1, E2-401. Course description Course introduction,
expectations and communication procedures. In-class writing sample. Diagnostic
Test of English Sentence Skills. UserID
and password will be given in class.
Purchase textbook. Study (= read and complete the exercises)
Applied English Grammar (AEG) Chapter
1 Analyzing Words and Sentences pp 24-53.
Introduction to the blackboard web learning environment. Login.Tools.
Personal info. Password. Email. Telephone. Announcements. Course info.
Assignments. Communication.
Mission College Online Orientation
This Orientation will help you find your way around the college, find
out about support services, and learn about the college's programs and
procedures. As you will discover, Mission is a very special college. It
is located in the heart of one of the greatest technological centers in
the world and is committed to responding to the needs of a fast growing
and highly diverse community.
How
to log into Blackboard.Students who pre-registered for ESL970G ONLINE
can log in immediately. If you pre-registered for the on-campus section
or if you added ESL970G after the semester began, you may not yet enter
Blackboard as a registered student. However, you may PREVIEW the course
and have access to a few of the areas. Click the link for details.
Week 2 beginning
Feb 7
Tue Feb 8, 5:15-7:30 pm Orientation Session
2 Tech Center TC-1. Digital Drop Box. Discussion Boards.
(Please read the descriptions in Resources.) Post
a message In the Discussion
Board area () in the forum "Self-introductions." Post a
paragraph introducing yourself to the class. Read the post a thoughtful
reply of 15 or more words to five classmates.
AEG
Chapter 1 Analyzing Words and Sentences. Complete the exercises
in the book Topics: Parts of Speech. Sentence Parts (The basic English
sentence; subject, verb, object complement, and modifier; phrases, clauses).
Sentence types by purposes and grammatical structure. Spoken English compared
to written English. Using simple sentences to make other sentences. Simple
sentences. Compound sentences. Complex sentences. Compound-complex sentences.
Check the answer key (AK) for the the textbook exercises in the cvc.blackboard.com
Course Documents area. Do the Ch
1 Online exercises: 1-A
Practice Parts of Speech and Vocabulary, 1-B Practice with Sentence Types.
You may check the answer key (AK)
The
Parts of Speech in English
Knowing the parts of speech can help you understand how words are used
in English sentences.
References:Some
Useful Definitions and Punctuation Patterns. Definitions of Independent
Clause, Dependent Clause, Independent Marker, Dependent Marker, Coordinating
Conjunction; Proper Punctuation Methods, Some Common Errors to Avoid (comma
splice error, fused sentence error, run-on sentence error, sentence fragment
error) -Brought to you by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Go to the Discussion
Board (DB) and post any questions that you have about the topics in
Week 1 & 2 in the AEG Chapter 1 forum. .Read each others' messages
and post replies to them as you can.
Top
Week 3 beginning
Feb 14
Study AEG Chapter 2 Past Time Frame.
Complete the exercises in the book. Check the answer key (AK) in the blackboard
Course Documents area. Ch
2 Online exercises: 2-A
Practice with Simple Past Tense and Irregular Verbs, 2-B Practice with
Past Perfect, 2-C Practice with Past Progressive, 2-D Practice with Past
Time Expressions, 2-E Practice with the Present Perfect
References:Common
Irregular Verbs | Another list of Irregular Verbs Practice quizzes Irregular
verbs 1 Irregular
Verbs 2 Irregular
Verbs 3
Basic English sentence patterns. Part A. This
lesson identifies and gives examples of four sentence patterns in a coherent
piece of writing about one topic. It provides practice in analyzing the
sentences for subjects, verbs, objects and other complements, and prepositional
phrases. (I: S + active VI, II: S + active VT = O, III: S + passive V,
Sentences with compound elements). After completing the exercise, click
on the link to the answer keys.
Go to the Discussion
Board (DB) and post any questions that you have about Chapter 2. Read
each others' messages and post replies to them as you can. Make a habit
of posting messages in each chapter forum.
Quizzes available
6 PM Feb 15 - 11PM Feb 18:
Parts of Speech (20), Simple Sentence Recognition (10), Academic Words
in Context (20). Note: links and
passwords will always be accessible in the Assignments area in blackboard,
not from this webpage.
Top
Week 4 beginning
Feb 21
Analyze
the simple sentences in the paragraph "Online English Homework"
by marking the sentences parts as indicated in the examples. When you
have finished the lesson, check the Answer Key.
Identifying Verbs in a News Article: Sea Lion Treks
65 Miles From California Coast. Print page out the page. Underline
the verbs in each clause. After completing the exercise, click on the
link to the answer key.
Supplementary material on Prof. Charles Darling's website: Parts of Speech
| Identifying
Basic Sentence Parts | Clauses:
the Essential Building Blocks
Practice quizzes: Parts
of Speech | Identifying
Independent Clauses 1 | Identifying
Independent Clauses 2 | Dependent
Clauses and Types of Sentences
zes
available 10AM Feb 21- 11PM Feb 25:
Complete Sentence, Fragment, Comma Splice or Run-on? (10), Edit for Verbs
in the Past Time Frame (10)
Writing
Assignment: Post a message on the
Paragraph in the past time frame.
(100 pts) Due date: 11 pm Sat Feb 26..
Write a paragraph of 150-175 words using different action verbs in the
past time frame Refer to AEG Chapter 2. Use at least one of each sentence
type, in any order: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex.Pay
attention to verb tenses and verb forms. Possible
topics: what you (or somebody else) did in order to get a job, what you
(sbdy else) did on a business trip or vacation, what happened in a recent
job- or school-related activity (event, incident, task), what you (sbdy
else) did in order to get your driver's license, what your son (wife,
boyfriend, uncle, grandmother) did on a special occasion.
Top
Week 5 beginning
Feb 28
Study AEG
Chapter 3 General Truth Time Frame. Complete the exercises
in the book. Topics: "General Truth" defined, Verb choices for
general truth meaning, Simple present tense verbs, Present perfect: indefinite
past time in general truth contexts, Time expressions with the present
perfect, Subject-verb agreement. Check
the answer key (AK) in the blackboard Course Documents area. Do the Ch
3 Online exercises.
Identifying Verbs
in a News Article: Sea Lion Treks 65 Miles From California Coast.
Print page out the page. Underline the verbs in each clause. After completing
the exercise, click on the link to the answer key.
Singular subjects need singular
verbs; plural subjects need plural verbs. Learn and practice with these
supplemental resources:
Subject-Verb Agreement, including PowerPoint presentation. 12 important
points and 3 quizzes (Charles Darling, Capital Community College)
Subject-Verb Agreement, including subject following verb, expletive "it"
, "each", "none", subjects are joined by "and", subjects are joined by
"or", singular and plural subjects, linking verbs, collective nouns, relative
pronouns (University of Madison).
Making Subjects and Verbs Agree (Purdue University)
Agreement: subject-verb, inc. self-test (Scott Foll, Big Dog Grammar)
Rules for Subject-Verb Agreement, inc. practice and drill (Arizona State
University Writing Center)
Subject-Verb Agreement (Kellee Weinhold, Oregon University
Subject-Verb Agreement (Texas A&M Writing Center)
Google's links to Subject-Verb Agreement
zes
available Feb 25-11PM Mar 4:
Subject-Verb Agreement (20), Verbs in the General Truth Time Frame (20)
Extra Credit:
Post a thoughtful 25-word reply to paragraphs in the past time frame written
by three classmates on the .
Edit your message to be as error-free as possible. Due date Mar
6.
Top
Week 6 beginning
Mar 7
Study AEG
Chapter 4 Present Time Frame. Complete the exercises in the
book. Topics: Verb choices for present time meaning, The grammar of the
present progressive, The meaning of the present progressive, The grammar
of stative verbs, Stative verb groups, Time expressions for present time
meanings, Present perfect: indefinite past time in present time contexts.
Check the AK in the blackboard Course Documents area. Do the Ch
4 Online exercises..
Writing
Assignment: Post a message on the
Paragraph in the general truth time frame.
(100 pts) Due date: 11PM Thu Mar 10. Write a paragraph of 150-175 words
using different action verbs in the general truth time frame. Refer to
AEG Chapter 3. Use third person subjects. Use at least one of each sentence
type, in any order: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Pay
attention to subject-verb agreement (SVA) and subject-pronoun agreement
(SPA). Possible
topics: a basic scientific principle or a basic principle in your field
of study of work; a regularly occurring procedure, activity, or event
in your job, your workplace, your college, or your community.
zes
available
7AM Mar 3 -11PM Mar 11: Verbs
in the Present Time Frame (20 pts), Sentence Types (10)
Top
Week 7 beginning
Mar 14
Writing
Assignment: Post
a reply on the . Revise your
paragraph in the past time frame according to corrections and comments
written by your professor and deposited in your Digital Drop box.With
proper revision and editing, it is possible to raise your original score
by as much as 10 points. Due date 11PM Mar 14.
Study AEG
Chapter 5 Modals. Complete the exercises in the book. Topics:
Modal Auxiliary Verb Defined, The Basic Grammar of the Modal Auxiliaries,
Words with Similar Meanings, the Modal Auxiliary System, Using Modals
to Give Advice, Using Modals to Communicate about Guesses, Modals for
Future Time Meanings, Modals for Past Time Meanings, Negative Meanings
of Have To and Must, Will and Can fo General Truth Meanings, Using Modals
to Give Indirect Comands, Shall in American English, Modals in Passive
Sentences. Check the AK in the blackboard Course Documents area. Do the
online
exercise (5-A.
Using Modals to Give Advice:Giving Advice to a Friend, Having a Healthy
Body, 5-D. Other Uses of Modal Auxiliaries: Two Different Meanings for
Will,.Cultural Differences in the ESL Classroom, Seafood.)
Study Appendix D Traditional Definitions of the
Modal Auxiliary Verbs
Guide to Grammar
and Writing: Helping and Modal Auxiliary Verbs
shall, will,
should; do, does, did; have, has, had; can, could; can, may; may, might;
will, would; used to.
Print the article New life for S.F. lakes and use colored pens
to identify the following verb forms:simple present, present progressive,
present perfect, present modal http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/8136500.htm
or SFlakespres.pdf
Extra Credit:
Post a thoughtful 25-word reply to paragraphs in the general truth
time frame written by three classmates on the .
Edit your message to be as error-free as possible. Due date
Mar 14.
- Words! Words! Words!
Everyone can benefit by improving vocabulary. The
Compleat Lexical Tutor is an excellent site. Start by doing the
tutorial to test your word level in English. Then click Compare words
you know vs. use. Enter your paragraph in the box. The Web VP program
will tell you how many word types the text contains from the following
four frequency levels: (1) the list of the most frequent 1,000 word
families, (2) the list of the second 1,000 word families, (3) the Academic
Word List, and (4) the words that do not appear in any of the preceding
lists. There are also links to these websites at the top of the Syllabus
Page.
-
- Writing
Assignment: Post
a message on the Paragraph
in the present time frame
(100 pts). Due date: 11PM Fri Mar 18. Observe your surroundings carefully.
What can you hear, see, smell, taste, and/or feel? What are you and
the people (and/or animals) around you doing at this moment? Write a
paragraph of 150-175 words using different action verbs in the present
progressive (action verbs), simple present (nonaction verbs) and modals.
Refer to AEG Chapters 4 and 5. Use subjects in the first, second, and
third person singular and plural. Use at least one of each sentence
type, in any order: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex.
Pay attention to subject-verb agreement (SVA) and subject-pronoun agreement
(SPA).
Practice quizzes on modal auxiliaries
Helping and Modal Auxiliary
Verbs | Use
of Modal Auxiliaries | Fill
in the gaps with can, can't, must and mustn't.
Modal
Quiz | Past
Modal Quiz | Past
Modal Auxiliaries
Modal
Auxiliaries Due date:
11PM Mar 21
Top
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- Week
8 beginning Mar 21
Study AEG
Chapter 6 Future Time Frame. Complete the exercises in the
book. Topics: Future Time Choice, Basic Future Time Verb Choices, Verb
Forms Used to Indicate Future Time, Future Time Adverbs and Adverbial
Modifiers, Speaking about the Future, Writing about the Future. Check
the AK in the blackboard Course Documents area. Do the Online Exercises.
Writing Assignment: Post
a reply on the . Revise your
paragraph in the general truth time frame according to corrections and
comments written by your professor and deposited in your Digital Drop
box. With proper revision and editing, it is possible to raise your original
score by as much as 10 points. Due date 11PM Mar 21
Editing
Assignment: Post
a message on the
Error correction: Verbs in Past Time Frame.(30
pts) Due date: 11 pm Thu Mar 24.
Read the various discussion board forums. In five sentences written by
five different writers, find errors in verbs in the past time frame. For
each sentence, identify the paragraph by title, copy the writer's sentence
exactly, provide a revision of the the verb error(s), and explain why
your revision is better. Try to include yourself as one of the five writers.
(Refer to AEG Ch 2.) Put your name in the subject line. Follow this example:
zes
Midterm
Exams Due date:
11PM Mar 25. Verb Forms
(50) Basic Terminology and Sentence Structure Identification (50)
Top
Week of
Spring Break beginning Mar 28
No homework or quizzes need
to be submitted this week. However, for students' grammatical benefit,
it is essential to keep studying and doing practice exercises.
Study AEG Section Four: Editing Written English.
Learning how to edit:
1) The most serious problems, 2) intermediate problems, 3) punctuation
and mechanics problems
Practice the Editing Process: Editing Past Time, Editing for Subject-Verb
Agreement, Editing Modasl Auxiliaries, Editing for Determiners and Articles,
Editing for Prepositions, Editing for Gerunds and Infinitives, Editing
for Punctuation and CapitalizationWriting Focused on the Past Time Frame,
Writing Focused on teh General Truth Time Frame, Writing Focused on teh
Modal Auxiliaries, Writing Focused on Passive Sentences
.
Study AEG
Chapter 12 Punctuation. Complete the exercises in the book.
Topics: Overview of Punctuation Choices, The Period and Other End marks,
The Comma, The Apostrophe, The Semicolon, The Colon, Quotation marks,
Underlining, Capitalization. Do the online
exercises 12-6. Rules for Using Commas. 12-8. Practice
with Capitalization.
.
Guide
to Grammar and Writing: Punctuation Marks
Explanations,
examples and self-quizzes on the period, comma, question mark, exclamation
mark, colon, semicolon, hyphen, dash, parentheses, brackets, ellipsis,
apostrophe, quotation marks, and slash
Punctuation
from Purdue University Online Writing Lab
Top
- Week 9 beginning April 4
-
- Study AEG
Chapter 7 Questions and Commands. Complete the exercises
in the book. Topics: Importance
of Questions Purposes
of Questions Review
of the Basic Grammar of Yes-No Questions Review
of the Basic Grammar of Informattion Questions Tag
Questions Questions
Inside of STatements Commands Do
the online
exercises.
Writing
Assignment:
Post ten questions on the DB > Questions about a News Article. Due
date: 11 pm Thu Apr 7. (100 pts)
Choose an article of
interest to you from an online source (e.g., CNN,
San Jose Mercury
News, Los Angeles Times). Copy
the article's exact URL into a Word document. Write ten questions
of different types about the article: yes-no questions, information questions,
tag questions and embedded questions). Edit your questions for grammatical
accuracy. In your Word document, in a list below your questions, write
ten answers. Do not post the answers. Keep them for reference when your
classmates try to answer your questions. Follow the professor's model.
Questions
and Commands Due date: 11PM April 9
Writing
Assignment: Answer
the questions. Read the
subjects on the DB
> Questions about a News Article. Due
date: 11 pm Sun Apr 10. (20 pts). Choose one message that does not yet
have a reply. Read the article and the writer's ten questions. Post
a reply: answer the writer's
questions. If another student has already posted answers, please choose
another student's topic. In
other words, one set of questions - one set of answers. First come, first
served! To hold your place, click Reply, write "I am going to answer
these questions by (5:00) tonight." Later, come back, click your
message, click Modify, and post your answers.
Extra
credit: If you see and
correct errors in the writer's questions, you may earn up to 2 more points.
Top
- Week 10 beginning April
11
Study AEG
Chapter 8 Prepositions. Complete the exercises in the book.
Topics: Nine
most common preposition, In, On, At for time and space, Relationship
meanings for prepositions, Use of prepositions, Meanings of the possessives,
Making choices between of and the apostrophe for possessives
Appendix
E Prepositions: I.
Alphabetized list of common prepositions, II. Verb + preposition combinations,
III. Verb + Adjective or Noun + Preposition. Do
the online
exercises.
Prepositions:
Locators in Time and Space |
List of common prepositions
Practice quizzes on prepositions: Prepositions1
| Prepositions2
| Prepositions3
| Prepositions4
| Prepositions
| Prepositions
- crossword 1 | Prepositions
- crossword 2 | Prepositions
- crossword 3 |
Study AEG Chapter 9 Nouns, Articles, and Determiners.
Complete the exercises in the book. Topics: Articles
and other determiners, Proper and common nouns, Count nouns, Noncount
nouns, Meanings of nouns, Summary of the use of articles, Determiners
and quantifiers with count and noncount nouns. Do the online
exercises.
Guide to Grammar and
Writing: Nouns
Plural
forms of nouns, Possessive forms of nouns, An exercise in recognizing
nouns, Count versus non-count nouns, An exercise in categorizing count-
and non-count nouns, Compound nouns (and adjectives)
Practice quizzes on nouns:Count/Noncount
Nouns | Recgonizing
nouns |
Naming nouns |
Count and non-count nouns
Articles,
Determiners and Quantifiers Articles,
determiners, and quantifiers are those little words that precede and modify
nouns
Practice quizzes on articles:
Aricles
a, an, the | Aricles
a, an, the or no article
Practice quizzes on quantifiers::
Qauntifiers
much, many, most,few,a few, little, a little | Quantifiers
a few, a Practice quizzes on quantifiersgreat deal, a little, a lot, a
lot of, a majority of, enough, many, much of, plenty, several of, some
zes
Noun Forms (10) Indefinite
Articles: A and An (20)
Due date: 11PM Sat Apr 16
Top
Week 11 beginning April 18
Study AEG
Chapter 10 Adverbial, Noun, and Relative Clauses.
Listen to the sound files in the Course Documents area. Complete the exercises
in the book. Topics.
Traditional Definitions, Recognizing Different Types of Clauses: Adverbial
Clauses, Relative (Adjective) Clauses, and Noun Clauses
Recognizing and Correcting Common Sentence Problems, Sentence Combining
Practice: Adverbial Clauses and Relative (Adjective) Clauses, Sentence
Combining; Making Decisions about Combining Sentences
Do the Online
Exercises
Punctuation practice Quizzes
at Purdue University Online Writing Lab Grammar,
Punctuation, and Spelling
Accept and Except, Affect and Effect, Apostrophes, Commas vs. Semicolons,
Commas with Nonessential Elements [1]
[2]
[3]
, I/E Spelling Rules, Sentence Fragments, Using Commas, Words that Sound
Alike: Exercises
Identifying
Nouns, Adjectives, and Noun Phrases.. Click and print the article
"Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones". Underline
all of
the nouns and noun phrases.
With a yellow highlighter pen, highlight the adjectives.
With a green highlighter pen, highlight
other modifiers of that noun (articles, personal pronouns, nouns, possessive
nouns, adverbs). Draw an arrow from each adjective and other modifier
to the noun that it modifies. Then check the answer key.
Identifying
Types of Dependent Clauses. Click and print the article "I want
a cigarette so bad".With
a yellow highlighter pen, highlight
all of the dependent clauses and mark each as adverbial clause, noun clause,
or relative clause.Then
check the answer key.
zes
Articles: A, An, The and no article (30)
Adverbial,
Noun, and Relative Clause Identification (25)
Due date: 11PM Sat Apr 23.
Writing
Assignment:
Post ten sentences Sentences with Adverbial, Noun, and Relative Clauses
on the
DB . Due date: 11PM Sat Apr 23. (100 pts) Write
ten complex sentences related to a topic of your choice. Compose at least
two sentences with each of the following types of clauses: adverbial,
noun, relative adjectiveor a relative adverb. Set the dependent clause
in square brackets. Use a different subordinator in each sentence. Write
at least one restrictive clause and one nonrestrictive clause. Include
count and noncount nouns. Pay attention to prepositions, articles, determiners,
noun forms, verb forms, and punctuation.
Top
Week 12 beginning April 25
Study AEG
Chapter 11 Passive Sentences. Listen
to the sound file in the Course Documents area. Complete the exercises
in the book. Topics: Passive
Defined, Comparing Active and Passive Sentences, When to Use Passive
Sentences, Making Passive Verbs, Using the By-Phrase, Passive Look-Alikes.
Do the online
exercises.
Passive
sentences in the news: Five-alarm fire
Review AEG
Chapter 12 Punctuation. Refer to the exercises in the book
and the online
exercises
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Punctuation
Marks
Explanations,
examples and self-quizzes on the period, comma, question mark, exclamation
mark, colon, semicolon, hyphen, dash, parentheses, brackets, ellipsis,
apostrophe, quotation marks, and slash
Punctuation
from Purdue University Online Writing Lab
zes:
Active and Passive Voice
(10) Due date: 11PM Sat Apr 30. (30 points).
Writing Assignment: Sentences with Passive Sentences.(50)
Due date: 11PM Sat Apr 30. Write five to eight sentences about a factual
procedure, either in the past or the present. Use a minimum of five
passive constructions where appropriate. Type the title in the subject
line.
Top
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- Week 13 beginning May 2
Study AEG
Chapter 13 Nouns, Adjectives, and Personal Pronouns. Listen
to the sound file in the Course Documents area. Complete the exercises
in the book. Topics:Adjectives,Noun phrases,
Review of personal pronouns Do
the online
exercises.
Study AEG
Chapter 14 Adverbs. Listen to the sound file in the Course
Documents area. Complete the exercises in the book. Topics:Adverb
Defined, Formation of Adversb from Adjectives, Adverbs of Frequency, No
and Not, Word Order with Adverbs and Adverbials.
Do the online
Exercises.
Guide
to Grammar and Writing: Adverbs
Definition of Adverb,
Using Adverbs in a Numbered List, Adverbs We Can Do Without,
Kinds of Adverbs, Positions of Adverbs
Order of Adverbs, Adjuncts, Disjuncts, and Conjuncts, Some
Special Cases, Relative Adverbs, Viewpoint, Focus, and Negative
Adverbs
Interactive
Practice Exercises from Purdue University Online Writing Lab
Adjective or Adverb,
Prepositions of Direction: To, On (to), In (to), Prepositions of Location:
At, In, On
Adverbs
Due date: 11PM Tue May 10
Top
Week 14 beginning May 9
Writing
Assignment:
Error Analysis and Editing: 29 sentences
(10).
Doing this exercise will help prepare you for the final exam. Submit this
according to the diretions. Due date: 11PM Wed May 11.
Study AEG
Chapter 15 Conditional and Hypothetical. Listen to the sound
file in the Course Documents area. Complete the exercises in the book.
Topics: Conditional
and Hypothetical Defined, Meaning and Grammar of Conditional
Sentences, Modal Auxiliaries in Conditional Sentences, Meaning and Grammar
of Hypothetical Sentences, Were in Hypothetical If-Clauses, Wishes as
Hypothetical Sentences, Verbs in Conditional Sentences and Hypothetical
Sentences. Do the online
exercises.
Study AEG Chapter 16 Gerunds and Infinitives.
Do the exercises in the book. Topics: Gerund
and Infinitive Defined, Uses of Gerunds and Infinitives: Gerunds
as Direct Objects, Prepositions Followed by Gerunds, Used To and
Be Used To, Infinitives as Direct Objects: Infinitives and Adjectives;
Infinitives and Too; Infinitives and For; Infinitives and In Order To;
How, When, Where + Infinitives, Verbs That Can Have Either a Gerund or
an Infinitive as Direct Object with no Meaning Difference, Verbs That
Can Have Either a Gerund or an Infinitive as Direct Object with Different
Meanings. Do the online
Exercises.
zes:
Word
Order (20) Gerunds
and Infinitives (20)
Due date: 11PM Sat May 14
Top
Week
15 beginning May 17
REVIEW. Select
from the following exercises to review for the final exam.
Analysis
of Simple Sentences: Snow Mark the subject,
verb and prepositional phrases in each simple sentence.
Analysis
of Compound Sentences: Stonehenge Mark the subjects, verbs, prepositional
phrases, and coodinating conjunction in each compound sentence.
Analysis
of Complex and Compound-Complex Sentences: Space Flight Mark the subjects,
verbs, prepositional phrases, coodinating conjunctionm subordinators,
independent clauses and dependent clauses.
Edit for
Run-on and Comma Spice Errors: 4A The Composing Process; 4B Efficient
Test Taking Find and correct 5-6 run-on and comma splice errors in
each paragraph.
Edit for
Fragments: 1A The Braille Alphabet; 1B Human Memory Find and correct
5 fragments in each paragraph.
Edit for
Verbs: 2A The Flight of the Voyager; 2B The Genetic Manipulation of Tobacco
Find the 10 verb errors in each paragraph.
Edit for Agreement: 3A Skimming; 3B The Solar System Find 8 and 12
subject-verb agreement errors in each paragraph.
Edit
for Word Order: The Rosetta Stone Find the word order errors in this
paragraph.
Edit
for Word Order: Dinosaurs Find the word order errors in this paragraph.
Edit for
Word Choice: Tornadoes Find the word order errors in this paragraph.
Edit
for Articles: 9A The Sundial; 9B Diamonds Find 17 and 10 article errors
in each paragraph.
Edit
for Punctuation: 10A Historians and Archeologists; 10B Earthquakes
Find and insert 20 punctuation marks in each paragraph.
Edit
for Capitalization: 11A Calculus; 11B Thanksgiving
Sentence
Combination: Types of Tests, Classroom Behavior, and A Study Plan Combine
3 groups of short simple sentences into compound and complex sentences
in the context of 3 distinct paragraphs
Singular subjects need singular verbs; plural subjects need plural verbs.
Learn and practice with these links:
Subject-Verb Agreement,
including PowerPoint presentation. 12 important points and 3 quizzes (Charles
Darling, Capital Community College)
Subject-Verb
Agreement, including subject following verb, expletive "it"
, "each", "none", subjects are joined by "and",
subjects are joined by "or", singular and plural subjects, linking
verbs, collective nouns, relative pronouns (University of Madison).
Making
Subjects and Verbs Agree (Purdue University)
Agreement:
subject-verb, inc. self-test (Scott Foll, Big Dog Grammar)
Rules
for Subject-Verb Agreement, inc. practice and drill (Arizona State University
Writing Center)
Subject-Verb
Agreement (Kellee Weinhold, Oregon University
Subject-Verb
Agreement (Texas A&M Writing Center)
Google's
links to Subject-Verb Agreement
These self-quizzes can help you practice what you have learned about subject-verb
agreement.
Dave Sperling's
Subject-Verb Agreement quiz
City
University of hong Kong's English Language Centre Subject-Verb Agreement
quiz>
Colleen
Weldele's Subject/Verb Agreement quiz
Vera
Mello's Subject and Verb Agreement quiz
English
Zone's Subject-Verb Agreement quizzes: Easy, Intermediate, Advanced Levels.
Some quizzes are free; others require membership.
Subject-Verb
Agreement quizzes (Erlyn Baack's page, Advanced Composition for Non-Native
Speakers of English)
Sample
TOEFL grammar questions: Word form: Subject-Verb Agreement
Do the exercises and then check your answers in the AK.
Sentence
Fragment Exercisesó#1 Analyze each of 16 sets of sentences
as correct (C) or a fragment (F).
Sentence
Fragment Exercisesó#2 Proofread 5 brief paragraphs and edit
them for fragment errors.
Sentence
Fragment Exercisesó#3 Read a paragraph with no punctuation.
Add capitals, periods, commas, and/or other punctuation that may be needed
to make the word groups into complete sentences. Make sure that there
are no fragments.
Take a self-quiz on The
Functions of Clauses (self-quiz)
View Prof. Darlingís Powerpoint presentation Run-on
Sentences and Comma Splices
and take the self-quizzes: Avoiding Comma Splices 1 & 2, Repairing
Run-on Sentences, and Fragments and Run-on Sentences
Commas
with Nonessential Elements
Commas
Set off Nonessential Elements: Exercise #1
Commas
Set off Nonessential Elements: Exercise #2
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- Week
16 beginning May 23
Final exam Thursday, May 26, 8:30-10:30AM ESL Lab Room E2-401
The two-hour exam consists of the following tasks.
_ Sentence completion: Verb forms and verb tenses. Format: Fill-in-the-blank
online test.
_ Recognition: Are these sentences grammatically, lexically and mechanically
correct or not?
_ Editing. Find and edit the grammatical, lexical and mechanical errors
in sentences.
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