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Lesson 26 Schedule It! Punctuation Place a question mark inside the quotation marks after a qu0ted question but outside the quotation marks when it doesn’t apply to the material in quotation marks. (5.30) Ex: “What day is soccer practice?” asked Lucia. Did you see “The End of the Earth”? Grammar Who and whoever have three different forms depending upon their function in the sentence: subject, object, possessive. If it functions as the subject, use who; if it functions as the object, use whom. (3.21) Ex: Subject: Who is coming to dinner? Object: Whom are we waiting for? Punctuation Quotation marks are used to identify the title of a song, story, poem, article, or book chapter. (5.32) Ex: We have to memorize “Jabberwocky” by Thursday. Punctuation Always place periods inside quotation marks. (5.28) Ex: We delivered a package marked “fragile.” Usage There are a number of word pairs that are often confused. (bring/take, leave/let, may/can) (4.8) Bring (to carry something with oneself to a place ;you arrive with it/take(to carry to another place; you leave with it) Leave (to go away)/ let (to allow) May(to be permitted)/can (to be able to) Grammar Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs are used to compare the degrees of characteristics possessed by the objects that they modify. (3.9) Whether you use the comparative or superlative form depends on how many things are being compared. Comparative – used when comparing two items, groups, or one item with a group. Superlative – used when comparing more than two items, groups. Content Be sure to STUDY the illustration and caption before comparing the information with that in the text. The caption and illustration are always correct. (2.1) You might need to analyze (work the math) information. Punctuation Use a colon between numbers indicating hours and minutes. (5.4) Ex: Class will begin promptly at 10:05 A.M. Content You know what to do. (2.1) Content Do it again……. Usage A pronoun must agree with its antecedent in number, gender, and person. The antecedent is the noun or noun phrase to which the pronoun refers. (4.1) Reflexive pronouns may end in –self or –selves and refer back on the antecedent. The antecedent must be within the same sentence. (3.20) Ex: We could have done that ourselves. We = antecedent ourselves = reflexive pronoun Capital Capitalize the first word in a direct quote. Do not capitalize a sentence fragment or the second half of a divided quotation. (1.2) Ex: “ “Come,” Jose said, “and look at the beautiful new mural on display in the library.” Grammar Tense refers to the time element expressed by a verb. Verb tense shows whether an action has already occurred, is now occurring, or will occur in the future. (3.24)