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... mix. K they’re. The sentence tells you that they are always late, and the short form of they are is they’re. 44 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics 07_59 932 1 ch 03. qxp 4 /3/ 06 11:21 ... Neil Johnson May 31 , 2010 70 71 73 74 78 72 75 76 77 79 07_59 932 1 ch 03. qxp 4 /3/ 06 11:21 PM Page 47 48 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics 07_59...

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... friend, Greg 76 77 79 78 80 63 Chapter 4: Finishing What You Start: Writing Complete Sentences 08_59 932 1 ch04.qxp 4 /3/ 06 11:20 PM Page 63 60 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics ... sentence. t They (S)/lapped (V). The action here is lapped, which unites nicely with they. Completeness rules! u incomplete. The reader is waiting to hear something about the co...

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... New York 10027, in the heart of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Commas separate the day from the year, the whole date from the rest of the sen- tence, and each part of the address (the house number ... pepperoni as the robbers searched for him. 72 Part II: Mastering Mechanics 10_59 932 1 ch05.qxp 4 /3/ 06 11:22 PM Page 72 3. Activities: bobbing for cabbages pinning the tail...

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... you tell our audience about the sport? Here you see the benefit of the direct-address comma. Without it, the reader thinks I know Mort is the beginning of the sentence and then lapses into confusion. ... comma. v Cindy, on the other hand, checked the phone number in the pizza directory she had thoughtfully stashed in her purse. The expression inside the commas makes a co...

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... the front of other words, thereby changing the meaning. Most prefixes attach without hyphens, but a couple (self-, for example) tend to appear with hyphens. As with other punctuation marks, the ... make sense without the commas. Cindy isn’t attached to the interrupter, let’s just say, but absent the commas, the reader runs all those words together. Penalty box! You have to add...

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... meaning it is. ߜ Their/there/they’re: The first shows possession (the birds grasped seeds in their beaks). The second is a location (don’t go there). The third is a contraction meaning they are. ߜ ... Whose/who’s: The first shows possession (the bird whose beak is longest). The second is a contraction meaning who is. 38 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics...

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... thinks about batteries?” commented Jessica. “(Their/There/They’re) easy to overlook.” 39 Chapter 3: Who Is She, and What Is It? The Lowdown on Pronouns 07_59 932 1 ch 03. qxp 4 /3/ 06 11:21 PM Page 39 ... Whose/who’s: The first shows possession (the bird whose beak is longest). The second is a contraction meaning who is. 38 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar B...

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... ch04.qxp 4 /3/ 06 11:20 PM Page 49 48 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics 07_59 932 1 ch 03. qxp 4 /3/ 06 11:21 PM Page 48 Seeking Out the Subject/Verb Pair The subject/verb pair is the heart ... pairs form a closed circle: The thought they express is complete. That’s the quality you want, because otherwise your reader echoes the outlaw who, with his head...

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... heat. ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 54 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics 08_59 932 1 ch04.qxp 4 /3/ 06 11:20 PM Page 54 63. Who in the world wants an “I love math” tee shirt _____ 64. ... com- plete. Make sure that the sentence foll...

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... list ends and another begins. Commas do the same thing in sentences. Perhaps Professor MacGregor wants you to do the following: ߜ Go on the Internet. ߜ Locate the origin of the handheld meat ... stricter than the bouncer at this year’s most popular club, want you to insert a comma before the and or whatever word joins the last two items of the list. 10_59 932 1 ch05.qxp 4 /3...

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