Today's class began with the copying of Unit 14 vocabulary and the assignment of expert words. We will start this unit tomorrow, so make sure you have your synonyms and memory tricks handy.
Then, the first of many syntax quizzes composed by your classmates. Today's version was brought to you by first hour. Tomorrow will be the second half of first hour's creative syntactical styles.
Next, a quick review of sentence types, which most likely created nostalgia for elementary school syntax. We have declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory. It never hurts to use these terms for indicating sentence structures and adding to your syntactical understanding.
And last, but definitely not least, our syndetons, the neighbors we know as polysyndeton and asyndeton. Polysyndeton is the purposeful use of multiple conjunctions; asyndeton is the lack of conjunctions. Tomorrow's class will feature a text with both of these rhetorical devices.
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