Laying out the correst 4 doc

... ch 04. qxp 4/ 3/06 11:20 PM Page 49 48 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics 07_599321 ch03.qxp 4/ 3/06 11:21 PM Page 48 Seeking Out the Subject/Verb Pair The subject/verb pair is the ... 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 in...

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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 ... In other words, this section points out some dangers in the pronoun world and shows you how to steer clear of them. Specifically, I take you through the wonderful world of its/it’s,...

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... heat. ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 54 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics 08_599321 ch 04. qxp 4/ 3/06 11:20 PM Page 54 63. Who in the world wants an “I love math” tee shirt _____ 64. I can’t believe ... com- plete. Make sure that...

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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 ... to keep quiet. A. their. The sentence expresses possession, so you want the first choice. The second there is location, and the third means they are. If you plug they are into th...

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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_599321 ch03.qxp 4/ 3/06 ... 2010 70 71 73 74 78 72 75 76 77 79 07_599321 ch03.qxp 4/ 3/06 11:21 PM Page 47 48 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics 07_599321 ch03.qxp 4/ 3/06 11:21 PM...

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... Greg Figure 4- 1: Sample letter with incomplete and run-on sentences. 58 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics 08_599321 ch 04. qxp 4/ 3/06 11:20 PM Page 58 59 Chapter 4: Finishing ... 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 cow....

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... 67 64 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics 08_599321 ch 04. qxp 4/ 3/06 11:20 PM Page 64 If any item in a list has a comma within it, semicolons are used to separate the list items. ... 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_599321 ch05.qxp 4/ 3...

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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 ... line of the address ends and the next begins and between the city and state, which is standard practice. If the sentence continues after the address, insert a comma after...

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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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... a raise? 47 46 48 49 52 51 50 53 54 55 57 59 56 58 60 10_599321 ch05.qxp 4/ 3/06 11:22 PM Page 79 78 Part II: Mastering Mechanics y Restlessly Brad pondered the pepperoni question as the robbers ... 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 punctuat...

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