Wednesday, May 20, 2009

WHAT IS NOT A SENTENCE? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS!

CORRECT SENTENCE STRUCTURE - A MUST!

Correct the errors in the following examples. (Clue: check the quote below.)
Identify the reasons for the errors.


"Clandestine meetings in hotel rooms."
"Envelopes stuffed with cash."
"The money put not in banks, but in safe deposit boxes."
Lead Editorial, "Mulroney's testimony", The Windsor Star, Wednesday, May 20, 2009.

"And how unwisely so how other teams spend theirs."
"The anchor of their defence."
"Flaws that were capitalized on by two guys Detroit rescued from the NHL scrap heap."
"Plays that Detroit made."
"Plays that Chicago didn't."
Bob Duff, "Wings seize the moment", The Windsor Star, Wednesday, May 20, 2009.


THINK ABOUT THIS

Identify the author of the following.

“To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.”


TODAY'S WORD

The word for today is "spasmodic".
Define "spasmodic" and use it in a sentence.
What part of speech is "spasmodic"?

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