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Level B2- Lesson 20
Deadly Dino
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Caution! Check the spelling of the following
homophones:
Are/our
in to/into
its/it’s
Lose/loose
their/they’re/there
To/too/two where/were whose/who’s
Your/you’re week/weak
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Use commas before coordinating conjunctions joining two
independent clauses. (5.18 & 5.33)
Ex: We took the bus, but she will take the train.
Non-Ex: He ran outside and shouted to his sister.
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Run-on sentences should be corrected by creating two
sentences: the first ending in a period and the second
beginning with a capital letter. (5.37)
Ex: Run-on - One sea lion balanced a ball another sea lion
waved his flipper.
Correction – One sea lion balanced a ball. Another sea lion
waved his flipper.
You may also correct a run-on by using a semi-colon.
Ex: One sea lion balanced a ball; another sea lion waved his
flipper.
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Sentence fragments are corrected by joining the sentence
fragment to a complete sentence.
Ex: Incorrect – The bird was sitting on the roof. Sunning
himself.
Correct – The bird was sitting on the roof sunning himself.
A sentence fragment may also be corrected by rewriting the
sentence in other ways, as shown below.
Ex: Sunning himself, the bird sat on the roof.
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Use a capital letter on people’s titles and their abbreviated
forms only when they are used as part of a name or in place
of a name. (1.6)
Ex: Captain John Smith = Capt. John Smith
Yes, Captain, the lieutenant has left.
but NOT
John Smith was the Captain.
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A subject and verb agree if they are both singular or both
plural, that is, the subject and verb must agree in number.
(4.2)
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Most verbs ending in s are singular, while verbs not ending in
s are plural.
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The exception to this general rule is verbs used with I and
singular you. Although I and you are singular, their verbs do
not take an s: I go, you go, he goes, it goes, they go , we go.
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The number of the subject is not affected by any phrases
that fall between the subject and the verb. (4.2)
Ex: The difficulties of going on a long trip were apparent.
The verb should agree with the subject even when the
subject and predicate are inverted.
Ex:Performing for the first time on this stage are the Lowell
sisters. (subject – Lowell sisters predicate – are)
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Use a comma to set off an introductory
phrase or dependent clause. (5.15)
Ex: After we left, she phoned the office.
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Superlative forms of adjectives are used to
compare more than two things.
Ex: He is the oldest child of seven.
She is the best player on the team. (Notice
that she is part of the team.)
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Articles (a, an, the) are adjectives. Use an before a
vowel sound, a before a consonant sound. (3.5)
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Confusion over which article to use most often
comes with words beginning in h. If a word clearly
begins with a vowel or consonant sound, the
standard rule for articles applies. If the h is part of
an unstressed or lightly stressed first syllable, it is
considered acceptable to use either a or an.
Ex: a historian or an historian
a heroic or an heroic
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Any discrepancy between the title,
illustration, or caption and the accompanying
paragraph should be considered an error in
the paragraph.