Syntax may not be the most exciting strategy to study, but it does provide a constancy of clauses and identifiable sentence types for analysis. Plus, you no longer are limited to describing sentences as long or short! As per usual, each class is in a different phrase of the class close read and the introduction to syntax week. Do note the links in the following hours to review clauses and punctuation plus provide extra examples and practices beyond what we did in class. If you were absent and do not have a strong grasp of syntax, you need to look at all of the links and garner ethos regarding the clauses, syntax types, and punctuation rules. We did a lot today, and we will do a great deal more with syntax over the next week or so.
Beyond the class variations, we did have one item in common: all classes did take Vocab Quiz 13, which means you have 48 hours to take the quiz or schedule a make-up time.
1: In regards to the class close read, the characterization of that little, out-of-the way town Holcomb, we spent quality time identifying the components of the prompt and then applying this knowledge to the close read of the passage, all of 5 paragraphs, itself. What was quite beneficial to our close read is how you noted the structure of the passage and the perspective of the author's description of the community. For homework, write the most amazing introduction for this prompt - be clever, unique, engaging!
With syntax/clauses/punctuation, our topics of focus were differentiating between independent and dependent clauses https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-10/clauses/lesson-1/what-is-a-clause, recognizing subordinating conjunctions and their part in clauses https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-8/conjunctions-and-interjections/lesson-5/subordinating-conjunctions, finding coordinating conjunctions and knowing their acronym https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-8/conjunctions-and-interjections/lesson-1/coordinate-conjunctions, introducing our first 2 forms of syntax, simple and compound https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-10/clauses/lesson-8/simple-and-compound-sentences, and reviewing the rules for punctuating compound sentenceshttps://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-12/punctuation-end-marks-and-commas/lesson-5/commas-in-compound-sentences. More of this on Thursday!
3: In the middle we are as third hour is finishing up the class close read by turning in an introduction, one body paragraph, and a concluding paragraph for Thursday's class. Feel free to revise your original paragraphs to make them even better for my eyes!
With syntax/clauses/punctuation, we did all of the above listed during first hour plus looked at semicolons and their usage https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-14/additional-punctuation/lesson-2/semicolons.
5: We are at the end of the class close read as you turned in your intro, body paragraph, and conclusion during today's class.
With syntax/clauses/punctuation, we did all of the above listed during first hour and third hour plus the horrifying comma splice, the announcing colons https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-14/additional-punctuation/lesson-3/colons, adverbial conjunctions and their comma needs, syntax types 3 & 4, the complex and compound complex https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-10/clauses/lesson-9/complex-and-compound-complex-sentences, commas in complex sentences https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-12/punctuation-end-marks-and-commas/lesson-6/commas-in-complex-sentences, and syntax types 5 & 6, cumulative and periodic.
For homework, you will create 2 sentences for each of the 6 sentence types - be creative, be original, make it fun for the rest of us! Make sure to label the sentence types too!
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