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... offer. Your friend, Greg 76 77 79 78 80 63 Chapter 4: Finishing What You Start: Writing Complete Sentences 08_599321 ch04.qxp 4/3/ 06 11:20 PM Page 63 60 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar ... 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...

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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 11:21 ... but the female doesn’t have a fender; the cycle does. Thus you need the possessive pronoun its. r theirs. One of the choices — their’s — doesn’t exist in proper English. Th...

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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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... 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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... Your Cutie Patootie, Charlie 62 63 65 67 68 69 70 73 75 77 61 64 66 78 74 76 71 72 79 80 06_ 599321 ch02.qxp 4/3/ 06 11:23 PM Page 33 22. When Rachel’s poodle dug up the wig, she had to use paint ... 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 contr...

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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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... ch04.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 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 in...

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... shoes. ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 56 Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics 08_599321 ch04.qxp 4/3/ 06 11:20 PM Page 56 69. Having brushed the shoes carefully with a suede brush, ... heat. ____________________________________________...

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... 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/ 06 11:22 PM Page 67 64 Part ... 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 o...

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