Writing for Success—a review of
Sentence Basics
We cover sentence skills and some basic writing rules from a free online textbook called Writing for Success. Most writers have problem areas, but most mistakes for most writers tend to be in the same basic areas. If you learn some of the fundamental rules, you can write better sentences and paragraphs.
Go to this site and review the topic areas on the pages given.
http://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Writing%20for%20Success.pdf
Do you have a sentence? Components and four types of sentence errors: p 41
Independent clauses—every sentence has at least one: p 41
Subjects—nouns and pronouns: p 42
Compound subjects and prepositional phrases: p 43
Exercise 1, p 43-44—underline subjects and circle prepositional phrases
Verbs: Action, Linking, Helping—three types: p 44-45
Fragments: p 48
Determine if you have a fragment or a sentence—Chart: p 49
Exercise 4: Correcting fragments : p 55
Run-On Sentences--putting pieces together correctly: p 55
Punctuation to correct sentence errors—semi-colons: p 56
Coordinating Conjunctions: FANBOYS: p 56
Correct an email’s bad sentences: p 57
Correct bad sentences exercise: p 58
Subject follows verb after ‘here’ or ‘there’: p 68
Subject verb agreement exercise: p 69
Consistent verb tense: p77
Exercise 4-edit for verb tense shifts: p 78
Capitalization: p 79-82, including exercises
Pronouns and pronoun usage: p 83-84
Number and person agreement: Exercise 1, p 85
Collective noun agreement: Exercise 2, p87
Misplaced modifiers: p 98: examples and explanation.
Misplaced--Exercise 1: p 99
Dangling modifiers: p 99 examples and explanation
Dangling-- Exercises 2-3 p 100-101
We cover sentence skills and some basic writing rules from a free online textbook called Writing for Success. Most writers have problem areas, but most mistakes for most writers tend to be in the same basic areas. If you learn some of the fundamental rules, you can write better sentences and paragraphs.
Go to this site and review the topic areas on the pages given.
http://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Writing%20for%20Success.pdf
Do you have a sentence? Components and four types of sentence errors: p 41
Independent clauses—every sentence has at least one: p 41
Subjects—nouns and pronouns: p 42
Compound subjects and prepositional phrases: p 43
Exercise 1, p 43-44—underline subjects and circle prepositional phrases
Verbs: Action, Linking, Helping—three types: p 44-45
Fragments: p 48
Determine if you have a fragment or a sentence—Chart: p 49
Exercise 4: Correcting fragments : p 55
Run-On Sentences--putting pieces together correctly: p 55
Punctuation to correct sentence errors—semi-colons: p 56
Coordinating Conjunctions: FANBOYS: p 56
Correct an email’s bad sentences: p 57
Correct bad sentences exercise: p 58
Subject follows verb after ‘here’ or ‘there’: p 68
Subject verb agreement exercise: p 69
Consistent verb tense: p77
Exercise 4-edit for verb tense shifts: p 78
Capitalization: p 79-82, including exercises
Pronouns and pronoun usage: p 83-84
Number and person agreement: Exercise 1, p 85
Collective noun agreement: Exercise 2, p87
Misplaced modifiers: p 98: examples and explanation.
Misplaced--Exercise 1: p 99
Dangling modifiers: p 99 examples and explanation
Dangling-- Exercises 2-3 p 100-101