The complete idiot guide part 16 ppsx

... make sense, as these examples show: Part Usage and Abusage Then there's the story about the man who appeared at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter asked him, "Who goes there?" "It ... examples: • The manager with the pink slips terrorized the employees. The adjectival phrase "with the pink slips" describes the noun "manager.&qu...

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... gray, the mood was ominous. With this construction, the mood is the focus. Subordinated: As the mood became ominous, the sky became a frightening gray r . With this construction, the ... "Martha, dear, there are many bonds that will hold us together through eternity: your savings bonds, the bonds that are called Liberty bonds, and the bonds you get fr...

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... through the body by flowing up one leg and down the other." But: "Blood," the child said, "circulates through the body by flowing up one leg and down the other." ... review the rules for clear capitalization. The envelope, please. • Capitalize the first word of: • A sentence: It rains on the Spanish plain. • A complete sentence after a c...

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... Island. The state was then very dry. It is their book. Put it there. They're good friends. Go to the corner. He can come, too. I have two books. The weather is rainy. Whether or ... grammar. The clasp is loose. I might lose the necklace. The tortoise ultimately passed the hare. They helped in the past. The principal road is 5th Avenue. Mr. Cantor is the...

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... Back to the Future 68 A Note on Verbs for Non-Native Speakers 68 It s All in the Timing 10 xiv The Complete Idiot& apos;s Guide to Grammar and Style, Second Edition 18 Guide ... Your Own 210 xii The Complete Idiot& apos;s Guide to Grammar and Style, Second Edition Compound-Complex Sentences: The Big Kahuna 110 The Choice Is Yours 110...

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... melba toast. Nonetheless, the magazine was deluged with letters, many of them quite irate. When the smoke cleared, the editors realized that they had received one of the largest reader ... years. Have you ever heard the joke about the boy named Cass who was absent for a few days in first grade, missed the lesson about the letter C, then for the next few...

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... guesswork; everyone's on the same page. I cover issues of clarity in Chapter 19. • Complete. Good writing is the bun and the beef; the reader gets the complete package. With effective ... covered in Parts 2,3, and 4. • Efficient. The words are arranged on the page to save the reader time. The lay- out is clear and crisp, so the message is easy to trac...

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... express a complete thought. A sentence has two parts: a subject and a predicate. The subject includes the noun or pronoun that tells what the subject is about. The predicate includes the verb ... should not use the passive voice. In addition to showing tense (time), verbs also show voice, the form of the verb that shows whether the sub- ject performs the ac...

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... tree and reading a book; the other man was typing away on his typewriter. 4. The lion quickly pounced on the man reading the book and devoured him. 5. Even the king of the jungle knows that ... meaning English words are divided into eight different parts of speech according to their function in a sentence. The parts of speech are (the envelope, please): adjectives...

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... 36 Part 2: Under the Grammar Hammer • Queen Mary, not the Queen Mary • chemistry, not the chemistry • cancer, not the cancer • Newsweek, not the Newsweek • The New Yorker (part ... sometimes take the definite article the. Follow these rules: 1. Use the with specific singular and plural nouns. • I need the hammer and the nails. • I need the to...

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