ENG 100BC

Review Quiz 1 Active Verbs

Apostrophes
Prepositions & Idiomatic Expressions

Discuss Readings
Peer Review Essay #1

WHAT IS THE MORAL?

A dramatic ballad singer studied under a strict teacher who insisted that he rehearse day after day, month after month the same passage from the same song, without being permitted to go any further. Finally, overwhelmed by frustration and despair, the young man ran off to find another profession. One night, stopping at an inn, he stumbled upon a recitation contest. Having nothing to lose, he entered the competition and, of course, sang the one passage that he knew so well. When he had finished, the sponsor of the contest highly praised his performance. Despite the student's embarrassed objections, the sponsor refused to believe that he had just heard a beginner perform. "Tell me," the sponsor said, "who is your instructor? He must be a great master." The student later became known as the great performer Koshiji.

If a child says he wants to be a professional basketball player, what must the child do?
If a student wants to be a good writer, what must the student do?

QUIZ #1 REVIEW
1. The writing process consists of A. prewriting, drafting, revising, and publishing. B. planning, drafting, revising, and publishing. C. prewriting, planning, drafting, revising, and publishing. D. None of the above.
C. prewriting, planning, drafting, revising, and publishing.

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2. Choose the correct statement. A. MLA requires a title page. B. MLA requires a heading containing your name, instructors name, course title, and due date. C. MLA requires a half-inch margin on all sides. D. None of the above.
B. MLA requires a heading containing your name, instructors name, course title, and due date.

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3. Which of the following sentences applies all rules of capitalization? A. I read To Kill A Mockingbird when I was in high school. B. We went to maui for vacation last year. C. I dont like Coke, but Id love a Diet Soda. D. I hear you are learning to speak French.

A. I read To Kill A Mockingbird when I was in high school. D. I hear you are learning to speak French.

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4. Which of the following sentences applies all rules of capitalization? A. Jamie and Jonathon went to their high school dance together last spring. B. My Father-in-Law took me to a Chicago Cubs game. C. He does not know I am a white sox fan. D. I would love to go to france.

A. Jamie and Jonathon went to their high school dance together last spring.

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5. Which of the following sentences applies all rules of capitalization? A. Jessicas dad, Dr. Johnson, wants her to be a Doctor as well. B. Jeremy went to Alexander Community College for two years. C. My sisters new boyfriend is Italian. D. We traveled South on vacation because my dad wanted to study Civil War history. B. Jeremy went to Alexander Community College for two years. C. My sisters new boyfriend is Italian.

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6. Which of the following sentences applies all rules of capitalization? A. He was sentenced to five months probation by judge Karen Wilcke. B. When I was a kid, I thought Id be a doctor, but I became a professor instead. C. My Mother is named Nancy Barker. D. Sarahs aunt Trudy bought her the ugliest sweater I have ever seen. B. When I was a kid, I thought Id be a doctor, but I became a professor instead.

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7. Which of the following sentences applies all rules of capitalization? A. On our trip to the West, we visited the Grand Canyon and the Great Salt Desert. B. Assistand Dean Shirin Ahmadi recommended offering more World Language courses. C. We went to the Mark Taper forum to see a production of Angles In America. D. We amused ourselves on the long flight by discussing how Spring in Kyoto stacks up against Summer in London.
A. On our trip to the West, we visited the Grand Canyon and the Great Salt Desert.

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8. One way to correct a run-on sentence is to A. add a semicolon. B. create a fused sentence. C. add a comma. D. None of the above. A. add a semicolon.

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9. Which of the following is NOT a run-on sentence? A. The city had one public swimming pool, it stayed packed with children all summer long. B. The building is being renovated, therefore at times we have no heat, water, or electricity. C. All those gnarled equations looked like toxic insects; maybe I was going to have to rethink my major. D. None of the above. C. All those gnarled equations looked like toxic insects; maybe I was going to have to rethink my major.

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10. Which of the following IS a run-on sentence? A. The view was not what the travel agent had described. Where were the rolling hills and the shimmering rivers? B. City officials had good reason to fear a major earthquake, most of the business district was built on landfill. C. Wind power for the home is a supplementary source of energy: it can be combined with electricity, gas, or solar energy. D. None of the above. B. City officials had good reason to fear a major earthquake, most of the business district was built on landfill.

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11. Which of the following IS a comma splice run-on? A. Air pollution poses risks to all humans; it can be deadly for asthma suffers. B. Air pollution poses risks to all humans: it can be deadly for asthma suffers. C. Air pollution poses risks to all humans it can be deadly for asthma suffers. D. None of the above. D. None of the above.

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12. Which of the following IS a fused run-on? A. The city had one public swimming pool. It stayed packed with children all summer long. B. The city had one public swimming pool it stayed packed with children all summer long. C. The city had one public swimming pool, it stayed packed with children all summer long. D. None of the above.
B. The city had one public swimming pool it stayed packed with children all summer long.

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13. Adding what is missing and attaching it to the sentence before or after it are two ways to correct A. capitalization errors. B. a sentence fragment. C. a run-on sentence D. None of the above. B. a sentence fragment.

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14. Which of the following does NOT contain a sentence fragment? A. Listening to the CD her sister had sent, Mia was overcome with a mix of emotions such as happiness, homesickness, and nostalgia. B. Cortes and his soldiers were astonished when they looked down from the mountains and saw Tenochtitlan. The magnificent capital of the Aztecs. C. Although my spoken Spanish is not very good. I can read the language with ease. D. None of the above.
A. Listening to the CD her sister had sent, Mia was overcome with a mix of emotions such as happiness, homesickness, and nostalgia.

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15. Which of the following DOES contain a sentence fragment? A. There are several reasons for not eating meat. One reason is due to the dangerous chemicals that are used throughout the various stages of meat production. B. To learn how to sculpt beauty from everyday life. This is my intention in studying art and archaeology. C. Digital technology has revolutionized information delivery. It has forever blurred the lines between information and entertainment. D. None of the above. B. To learn how to sculpt beauty from everyday life. This is my intention in studying art and archaeology.

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16. Which of the following DOES contain a sentence fragment? A. Browsing the Web has become a way of life, but some people think it is destroying a way of life. B. That we will never recover. C. Our grandparents and parents feared that the age of television would create generations of viewers who were content to sit for hours and hours. D. None of the above. B. That we will never recover.

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17. Which sentence in the following paragraph contains a shift in point of view (person and number)? (A) When online dating first became available, many people that that it would simplify romance. (B) We believed that you could type in a list of criteria sense of humor, college education, green eyes, good job and a database would select the perfect mate. (C) Thousands of people signed up for services and filled out their profiles, confident that true love was only a few mouse clicks away. (D) None of the above. (B) We believed that you could type in a list of criteria sense of humor, college education, green eyes, good job and a database would select the perfect mate.

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18. Which sentence in the following paragraph contains a shift in tense? (A) The English colonists who settled in Massachusetts received assistance at first from the local Indian tribes, but by 1675 there had been friction between the English and the Indians for many years. (B) On June 20 of that year, Metacomet, whom the colonists called Philip, leads the Wampanoag tribe in the first of a series of attacks on the colonial settlements. The war, known today as King Philips War, raged on for over a year and left three thousand Indians and six hundred colonists dead. (D) None of the above. (B) On June 20 of that year, Metacomet, whom the colonists called Philip, leads the Wampanoag tribe in the first of a series of attacks on the colonial settlements.

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19. Which sentence in the following paragraph contains a shift in mood and voice? (A) Our neighbors told us that the island was being evacuated because of the coming storm. (B) Also take the northern route to the mainland. (C) We hoped that we would be able to beat all of the traffic. (D) None of the above.
(B) Also take the northern route to the mainland.

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20. Which sentence contains a shift from a statement to a questions (indirect to direct)? A. Mother said that she would be late for dinner and asked me not to leave for choir practice until Dad came home. B. The interviewer asked if we had brought our proof of birth and citizenship and passports. C. In my first tai chi class, the sensei asked if I had ever done yoga stretches and did I have good balance. (and if I had correct) D. None of the above. C. In my first tai chi class, the sensei asked if I had ever done yoga stretches and did I have good balance.

VERBS THATS WHATS HAPPENING

HACKER CHAPTER 8 ACTIVE VERBS

Whenever

possible avoid the passive voice and use the active voice Makes writing crisper, more lively, more concise Avoid or replace be verbs

be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been

The fly ball was caught by Hernando. Hernando caught the fly ball.

HACKER CHAPTER 8 ACTIVE VERBS

Use

the active voice unless you have a good reason for choosing the passive. In active, the subject does the action In passive, the subject receives the action

Mostly scientific writing

The settlers stripped the land of timber. The land was stripped of timber by the settlers.

HACKER CHAPTER 8 ACTIVE VERBS

Replace

be verbs that result in dull or wordy sentences As a rule, choose a subject that names the person or thing doing the action.

EX. E.5 STRONG, ACTIVE VERBS

1. Big crowds are drawn to annual Fashion Week events in American and European cities. Annual Fashion Week events in American And European cities draw big crowds. 2. Shows by new and established designers are attended by photographers, journalists, models, and celebrities. Photographers, journalists, models, and celebrities attend shows by new and established designers.

EX. E.5 STRONG, ACTIVE VERBS

3. Many people in the audience have modelthin bodies and photogenic faces. Many people in the audience show off their model-thin bodies and photogenic faces. 4. Often haute couture shows with their expensive, trend-setting fashions are the highlight of the event. Often, haute couture shows with their expensive, trend-setting fashions entice the largest numbers of eager spectators.

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5. Haute couture garments are not expected to be worn by ordinary people. Designers do not expect ordinary people to wear haute couture garments. 6. Haute couture creations are frequently more like works of art than mere outfits. Designers frequently consider their haute couture creations as works of art rather than mere outfits.

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7. Such clothing can be worn in public only by runway models. Only runway models can wear such clothing in public. 8. Other people seem ridiculous in haute couture clothes. Other people attract ridicule in haute couture clothes.

EX. E.5 STRONG, ACTIVE VERBS

9. Clothes can be draped more easily on models who have very thin bodies. Dressers can drape clothes more easily on models who have very thin bodies. 10. Some people are more impressed by the spectacle than by the clothes. The spectacle impresses some people more than the clothes.

APOSTROPHE SONG
Watch the following video. Write down examples of apostrophe misuse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc2aSz9Ficw

HACKER CHAPTER 36 APOSTROPHES

Use

an apostrophe to indicate that a noun is possessive The hat of Tim Tims hat The desk of the lawyers The lawyers desk The camper of Joyce and Greg Joyce and Gregs camper The memoir of my father-in-law My father-in-laws memoir

HACKER CHAPTER 36 APOSTROPHES

Use

an apostrophe and s to indicate that an indefinite pronoun is possessive (everyone, someone, no one, something)

The raincoat of someone Someones raincoat

HACKER CHAPTER 36 APOSTROPHES

Use

an apostrophe to mark omissions in contractions and numbers Its = it is Its _____ raining outside. Each area had _____ own desk. Use an apostrophe to mark omissions of the first two digits of a year or years The class of 08 The 60s generation (notice it isnt 60s)

HACKER CHAPTER 36 APOSTROPHES

Do

not use an apostrophe to form the plural of numbers, letters, abbreviations, and words mentioned as words Oksana skated nearly perfect figure 8s. The 1920s are known as the Jazz age. He received two Ds for the first time in his life. Beginning readers often confuse bs and ds. Students with straight As earn high honors. The Is in the sign are crooked. There are exceptions for Js, js, Ps, and ps. Harriet has thirty DVDs on her desk.

HACKER CHAPTER 36 APOSTROPHES

Avoid

common misuses of the apostrophe. Some outpatients have special parking permits. The House on Mango Street was written by Sandra Cisneros, whos work focuses on the Latino community in the United States.

EX 17.1 APOSTROPHES

1. African chiefs stories led a German explorer to the stone ruins in Mashonaland, now in Zimbabwe, in 1871. Chiefs 2. The explorer, whos name was Karl Mauch, tried to find out who had built the once-great city. whose

EX 17.1 APOSTROPHES

3. The tribes nearby could not answer Mauches question, but they knew gold had been found there. Mauches 4. The Africans called the site Zimbabwe. Africans

EX 17.1 APOSTROPHES

5. Mauch became convinced that the city was Ophir, the source of the gold brought back to King Solomons Israel around 1000 B.C.E. correct 6. He thought perhaps the cities builder was the Queen of Sheba. Citys

EX 17.1 APOSTROPHES

7. An archeologists findings later demonstrated that the city was about six hundred years old and that it had been built by African natives. Archeologists 8. The Shona tribe probably built the first walls on the site, but its more complex structures were added later by the Rozwi tribe. its

EX 17.1 APOSTROPHES

9. The Rozwi probably erected the temple, which was inhabited by Rozwi rulerpriests until their empires end in the 1830s. 1830s 10. The legends about the origins of the city persisted for a long time, perhaps because of white South Africans and Europeans resistance to the idea that black Africans had built the impressive structures. Africans

Preposition indicates the relationship between the noun or pronoun that follows it and another word in the sentence At, by, for, from, in, of, on, to , with
The road to the summit travels past craters from an extinct volcano.

PARTS OF SPEECH

PREPOSITIONS

Can you end a sentence with a preposition?

Where are you at? Where are you? She displayed the good humor shes known for. She displayed the good humor for which she is known. I want to know where he came from. I want to know from where he came.

PREPOSITIONS
She

is a person I cannot cope with. She is a person with whom I cannot cope.

If the restructured sentence sounds contrived and unnatural, simply rewrite the sentence:

It

is behavior I will not put up with. It is behavior up with which I will not put. It is behavior I will not tolerate.

ALSO BAD!!!!

The source uses a variety of people to show what happiness is. This is how people are. Never end in a be verb!

PREPOSITIONS & IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS

A descendant of one of the earliest immigrants at North America played a pivotal role in helping later Americans explore their country. to Were tribes of American Indians living all over what is now the United States. There were Each tribe had its own language and customs. Some tribes raided others and took prisoners who then became the raiding tribes slaves. That is what happened to a young Shoshone girl now known as Sacagawea.

PREPOSITIONS & IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS

This girl, like many young girls, she had a nickname, He-toe. He-toe was the sound a local bird made, and the girls movements were as swift as that birds. When a raiding party of Hidatsas captured easily this young girl, they named her Sacagawea bird woman. Sacagawea was about twelve years old. The frightening young girl did not try to escape but accepted her role and worked for her captors. frightened At a few months, she had acquired a reputation for good sense and good work. In/After

PREPOSITIONS & IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS

The tribe married Sacagawea to a white man, Toussaint Charbonneau; she was his second wife. Soon pregnant, this typical Indian wife she did the chores and left all decisions to her husband; but inwardly, she longed to explore new places and meet new people. She may have been controlling by her husband, but she never missed a chance to learn whatever she could. ; / ,but controlled

PREPOSITIONS & IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS

When white men appeared, many Indians were curious. Sacagawea had never seen a man with yellow hair or red hair. Nor had she ever seen a black man. All these men were trying to get to the Big Water far to the west. They would have to cross mountains that they had not even seen them yet. Omit them

PREPOSITIONS & IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS

They needed horses and guides that the Shoshone could supply and an interpreter who could speak the Shoshone language. Imagine their surprise when this interpreter, whom they had hoped to find him, turned out to be woman a Shoshone young attractive woman. Omit him an attractive young Shoshone woman.

BREAK!

ESSAY DISCUSSION
Groups of three four Discuss each essay Write two points about each essay on board

One general point about essay One point pertaining to guiding question

DISCUSS ESSAYS GUIDING QUESTIONS

What is the main contrast that Mathias makes in the essay? Would it have made any difference if Zinsser had used another pattern of development? Judging from this selection, what do you think Pollan might want his audience to do? How does Goodman define the do-it-yourself economy? What strategy does she use? In what way is this essay a definition of a wife? Why does Brady avoid a more conventional definition? Based on just the essay, what is necessary for the word green to be applied accurately?

General thoughts 1. Mathias sees Facebook primarily as online community theater. 2. According to Mathias, the one area of privacy that her generation will not surrender is the ability for anyone to tell how and whom we search. 3. Mathiass essay is most appropriately classified as a personal opinion essay. 4. Throughout the article, Mathias uses a theater as a metaphor. 5. Mathias might refer to the site as Fakebook rather than Facebook because the site has no real value; it is just a waste of time. Weird transitions...lacks flow...paragraph 9-10

DISCUSS ESSAYS THE FACEBOOK GENERATION

DISCUSS ESSAYS THE FACEBOOK GENERATION

What is the main contrast that Mathias makes in the essay? The contrast is between how her generation uses Facebook (as an online community theater) and how the growing number of adults use the site (as a place for genuine personal and professional connections)

DISCUSS ESSAYS THE TRANSACTION...

General Thoughts... Zinssers thesis is that there isnt any right way to do such intensely personal work. The persons posing the questions to Zinsser and Dr. Brock were a group of students, English teachers, and parents. Dr. Brocks philosophy of writing is Let it all hang out! Dr. Brock says that it had never occurred to him that writing could be hard. Zinsser believes that most of the members of their audience benefited from the diversity of the writers attitudes toward writing. Disagree with final sentences...one relies on writing as a profession, the other uses it for fun, as a supplemental profession or as a hobby. I treat dance differently than the studio owner.

DISCUSS ESSAYS THE TRANSACTION...

Would it have made any difference if Zinsser had used another pattern of development? Zinsser could have used the subject-by-subject method only if the questions had been posed at the start of the selection. Dr. Brock would have responded and then Zinsser. Such an arrangement would have obscured the differences in each authors writing processes.

DISCUSS ESSAYS THE ALCOHOLIC REPUBLIC...

General Thoughts... Excessive alcohol consumption in the 1800s caused an increase in public drunkenness, violence, family abandonment, and an increase in alcohol-related diseases. According to the article, corn is predominately turned into high-fructose corn syrup. Pepsi and Coca-Cola switched from using sugar to highfructose corn syrup because it is a few cents cheaper than sugar; therefore, they made higher profits. Obesity is more prevalent in lower socio-economic classes because energy-dense, high calorie foods are significantly cheaper. The Alcoholic Republic compares to modern times because there has been an overabundance of corn during both times that has been processed into different goods. Terrible ending...felt cut off...

DISCUSS ESSAYS THE ALCOHOLIC REPUBLIC...

Judging from this selection, what do you think Pollan might want his audience to do? He would want them to make more careful decisions about what they are eating and drinking. He would probably support a full disclosure of the calorie contents of popular foods and drinks something that is already happening with a new food law passed in 2010 which requires restaurants, with 20 or more outlets, to provide fast food calorie news for consumers along with information on how much a person should consume in one day.

DISCUSS ESSAYS OUR DO-IT-YOURSELF...

General Thoughts... Goodmans phrase references the tasks that we are forced to do that someone did for us in the past. The do-it-yourself tasks included are pumping your own gas, scanning your own groceries, using an ATM, and picking up tickets at an automated site. The reasons that Goodman sees for why businesses increasingly rely on do it yourself strategies include it saves money be eliminating the overhead associated with employees and business are simply catering to Americans love of doing things for themselves. When the cows come home is a clich. The tone of the essay is comic and informal. Hmmm...very good point...I usually choose to scan my groceries because of shorter lines...

DISCUSS ESSAYS OUR DO-IT-YOURSELF...

How does Goodman define the do-it-yourself economy? What strategy does she use? Goodmans essay is a series of examples of situations in which consumers have been forced to perform tasks for themselves that previously were done by hired employees.

DISCUSS ESSAYS I WANT A WIFE

General Thoughts... In this essay, Brady defines wife by delineating the stereotypical male demands in marriage. Brady makes her point through the use of personal experience and observation. The core of Bradys essay consists of seven different categories of duties that a wife typically performs. In her essay, Brady seems to be trying to make vivid the inequality that can or does exist in a conventional marriage. A synonym for Bradys concept of the word wife could be servant. SO VERY SEXIST...How about a man who will meet a woman halfway with all of these defined duties?

DISCUSS ESSAYS I WANT A WIFE

In what way is this essay a definition of a wife? Why does Brady avoid a more conventional definition?
It is a definition through example. No conventional dictionary definition would be adequate to define the implications of the term wife.

DISCUSS ESSAYS ARE WE BEING GREEN...

General Thoughts... The problem with green labels is that they only focus on one or two environmental impacts of a product. Goleman blames the customers for societys ecological ignorance. When it comes to the environment, most people think like adolescents and dont grasp the long-term consequences for their actions. The purpose of life-cycle assessment is to determine the true and full environmental cost of a product. The authors final message is that citizens need to buy green products and the government needs to take steps to change corporations. Not just definition...defines problem and gives solution... Very argumentative

DISCUSS ESSAYS ARE WE BEING GREEN...

Based on just the essay, what is necessary for the word green to be applied accurately? A truly green product could only be judged by its LCA (life-cycle assessment).

PEER REVIEW SUMMARY

On peer review sheet, write Reviewed by: (insert your name) Summary author: (peers name) Exchange essays. Read the essay and complete the peer review sheet. Give both to author (your peer).

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on quotation marks and commas Read chapter 7 (Cause & Effect) pgs 371-388