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May 19, 2010 Conventions Day 4

May 19, 2010 Conventions Day 4. What sentence in Paragraph 4 includes a punctuation error? The floor is generally the best place to build , a short-piled carpet is ideal. Why is this sentence incorrect?

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May 19, 2010 Conventions Day 4

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  1. May 19, 2010 ConventionsDay 4 What sentence in Paragraph 4 includes a punctuation error? The floor is generally the best place to build, a short-piled carpet is ideal. Why is this sentence incorrect? It has a comma splice. A comma splice is a run-on sentence in which sentences have been joined with only a comma. What is an independent clause? An independent clause contains a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought.

  2. Today we will: • Practice revising and editing an explanatory essay. • Work in cooperative groups to prepare a portion of Act 2. • Each group will summarize, identify and describe important characters, translate an important speech, and perform their assigned portion of Act 2.

  3. Mariah wants to add the sentence below to her essay. • Long before telephones, faxes, and e-mail, however, cousins of these very pigeons were used to carry messages all over the world. • Where should Mariah place this sentence? • Why?

  4. Choose the sentence that most clearly and effectively adds supporting details to Sentence 5 of Mariah’s draft. • There are also remote outposts where birds still carry messages in Orissa, India, to and from a police station there. • Also, in Orissa, India, a police station still uses the birds to carry messages to remote outposts. • Still using the birds as well, is a police department in Orissa, India, sending messages to outposts that are remote. • The birds also carry messages from a police department in Orissa, India, to outposts that are still remote.

  5. One last look at Mariah’s essay: • Read Sentences 4 and 9. • Can you find the errors? • Can you correct them?

  6. Homework • Be prepared for presentation on Monday!

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