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Bell Ringer. Commonly Confused Words. Memory key for Whose vs. Who’s . “ Whose ” is a possessive pronoun . Whose is the possessive form of who . It means belonging to whom . Whose usually sits before a noun . “ Who’s ” is a contraction for “who is” or “who has.”.
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Bell Ringer Commonly Confused Words
Memory key for Whose vs. Who’s • “Whose” is a possessive pronoun. • Whose is the possessive form of who. It means belonging to whom. • Whoseusually sits before a noun. • “Who’s” is a contraction for “who is” or “who has.”
Whose or Who’s? Who's / Whose note is that in the kitchen area asking who's / whose been stealing the biscuits? I know who's / whose behind the thieving. It's a small rat, who's / whose learnt to open the biscuit jar.
Memory key for Who vs. Whom • “Who” is a subject pronoun. • “Whom” is an object pronoun. • Use it anywhere you may have an object: • Direct OBJECT • OBJECT of a preposition • OBJECT complement • As a ready check in such sentences, simply substitute the personal pronoun “he/him” or “she/her” for “who/whom.” • If “he” or “she” would be the correct form, the proper choice is “who.” • If “him” or “her” would be correct, use “whom.”
Who or Whom? • Mrs. Dimwit consulted an astrologer _____ she met in Seattle. • Jones is the man _____ I went fishing with last spring. • Joyce is the girl _____ got the job. • _____ can we turn to in a time of crisis?
Who or Whom? • Mrs. Dimwit consulted an astrologer ______ she met in Seattle. • Jones is the man _____ I went fishing with last spring. • Joyce is the girl _____ got the job. • _____ can we turn to in a time of crisis?
Who or Whom? ANSWERS • Mrs. Dimwit consulted an astrologer whom she met in Seattle. (She met him in Seattle.) • Jones is the man whom I went fishing with last spring. (I went fishing with him.) • Joyce is the girl who got the job. (She got the job.) • Whom can we turn to in a time of crisis? (Can we turn to her?)
Memory Key forsit vs. set • "to sit" = "to recline" (cannot have a direct object) sit, sat, sitting, sat • "to set" = "to place" (must have a direct object) set, set, setting, set
Sit or Set? Can you spot errors in the use of the verbs "to sit" and "to set" in the following sentences? • Before the guests arrive, I plan to sit several bowls of chips around the room. • Florence forgot that she had sat her keys on the seat of her car. • Ahmed complained that several dirty coffee cups had been setting on the counter all week. • As each board member arrived, Herb sat him or her in one of the plush chairs around the conference table.
Memory key forcomplement vs. compliment • Complement means to enhance. • Compliment means to idolize--I see something great!
complement or compliment? • My ____________s to the chef for such a wonderful starter. • When I said your eyes looked misty, I meant that as a ____________. • The cashew nuts were an excellent ____________ for the soup. • Tell the cook of this restaurant with my ____________s that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it. (Oscar Wilde) • The drums were a perfect ____________ to their dancing style.
Weather or whether We will ___________ the ____________, whatever the ______________, ___________ we like it or not!
Pneumonic Device for remembering the difference between affect and effect: • RAVEN • Remember, Affect Verb, Effect Noun. • Perhaps this one will ensure that you get it wrong nevermore.
Which word--“effect” or “affect”--belongs in each blank? • This morning’s rainfall had very little ______ on the drought. • We are hopeful that the heavy rains predicted for next week will ______ the drought. • Calcium supplements can positively ______ one’s moods. • Calcium supplements can have a positive ______ on one’s moods. • The calcium supplements she is taking have ________ed positive changes in her moods.
ANSWERS: • effect • affect • affect • effect • effect [meaning "to bring about"]
Grateful or Gratified"I'm _____ that, from my mother's example, I had found the base for this worship--that I had found a love of sitting and reading the Bible for myself and looking up things in it."(Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings, 1984)
Find or Fined"I realized that my impression of myself had been of someone who could look for, and _____, the upside in any situation. I had believed in the logic of popular songs. I had looked for the silver lining. I had walked on through the storm. It occurs to me now that these were not even the songs of my generation."(Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking, 2005)
Bread, Bred, or Breed"'We are not the kind of people who hate,' she added, as if this were an imperfection that had been _____ out of them generations ago."(Flannery O'Connor, "The Comforts of Home." Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965)
Fill-in-the-blank • Alternate or Alternative"Family parties had turned for him into grueling and monotonous tests of fealty to which he submitted with sorrow and anxiety whenever he was left with no civilized _____."(Joseph Heller, Good as Gold, 1979)
