It is a very easy assignment I could give u 10 more dollars if you could finished it before 11.45
Grammar Terms
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Sentence = subject + verb
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Verb
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Action word or verb to be
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Verbs: eat, revise, am, etc.
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Subject
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Noun
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Noun that does the verb
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Object
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Noun
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Receives the verb or has the verb done to it
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We can have 2 objects in a sentence
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Predicate
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Verb + everything else
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Sentences can be divided into subjects and predicates
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compound:
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Sentence
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My partner cooked dinner, and I cleaned the house.
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Can be broken into two sentences by removing the conjunction
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Subject
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Two subjects that do one verb together
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My dog and I went for a walk.
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Predicate
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One subject does more than one verb
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I ate dinner, cleaned my house, and took a nap.
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Phrases
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Without ingredients, you cannot cook dinner.
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You cannot cook dinner without ingredients.
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Clauses
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A subject + predicate that could be its own sentence
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major grammar errors
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comma splice
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fused sentence
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sentence fragment
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subject-verb agreement
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My parents, but especially my mother, helps me with my school work.
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Subject-verb agreement
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Parents is the subject, where mother is part of the phrase.
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My parents help..
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Because I could not get to sleep last night.
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Sentence fragment
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Too many conjunctions
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Missing a verb in a sentence
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Missing a subject
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I cannot come tonight, I have a test tomorrow.
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Comma splice
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Its a compound sentence where the two clauses are combined with a comma.
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Fix it by: adding a conjunction, replacing the comma with a semicolon or m-dash, or making two sentences.
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My sister lives in Vancouver is by the sea.
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Vancouver is a noun that is both in the phrase in Vancouver and is trying to be the subject for the verb is. Nouns can only do one thing at a time
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My sister lives in Vancouver, which is by the sea.
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Gerunds
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Running is fun.
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Is is the verb
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Verb + ing = noun
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Infinitives
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I love to run.
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Love is the verb
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To run is the object receiving my love
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To + [verb] = noun
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continuous tenses
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I am running to the store.
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Verb is am running
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[to be] + verb + ing = continuous tense
Sentence Workshop Space
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2. My senses will expand, and I feel the wind, the moisture in the air, the dust scattering around the corner, the loneliness wrapping around and hugging me.
At that time, I(subject) observed(verb) the cicada pupae I raised every day and observed its metamorphosis.
At that time, I observed the cicada pupae // I raised every day and observed
I observed the cicada pupae THAT I raised every day and observed