Saturday, September 19, 2009

ENGLiSH HANDBOOk QUESTiONS

1. The heading goes in the upper left hand corner. In the heading, you must include the student's name, the teacher's name, subject, period, and date.

2. She wore huge dark glasses, so no one recognized her.

3. A comma splice is an error of joining two complete sentences with only a comma, and a fused sentence are two complete sentenced together with NO punctuation between them.

4. You may use a comma to set off an introductory clause, phrase, or conjunctive sentence, or
to create a pause.

5. A semicolon is used to create a stronger pause or to link two thoughts together or to link items in a long series.

6. Numbers ninety-nine and below should be spelled out.

7. Yes, plays are underlined, but they can be italicized also

8. Affect means "change," "disturb," "influence," "feign," or "pretend to feel." Effect, as a verb, means "bring about," or "perform." And effect, as a noun, means "result," or "impact."

9. "There" defines a place, "their" refers to somebody's position, and "they're" is the contraction of they are.

10. A parallel structure expresses parallel elements in the same grammatical form.

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