Z5-Grammar+Girls

2-17-11 It tells you that the people are going to teach us how we are supposed to give us tips about the how to make a sentence sound educated. It lets us make other thing sound good. it also makes people think that you know what you are talking and it lets use turn 2 words into 1 for example does he and doesn't he. 2-21-11 This episode is about about contraction. An example is It's for it is, or would not for wouldn't. and The mouth fulls of them is i'dof and there're. They expect you to leave those alone. Other contractions are what'ed, thatof and whener stay away from these. 2-28-11 167 167 is about dashes (-). People use dashes to make a dramatic pause so the reader can be ready for something cool, or something dramatic. For example, " I went fishing and - I caught a huge fish!". As you can see that in the example I started off with a boring part then after the dash I said something exciting. 169 169 is about - to use for to mean because. The experts would say you can use the word for at any part in a sentence. At the beginning or at the end. An example is My mom made me do this for my health or you can say, My mom made me do this because of my health.Most people say that you can't put the word "for" at the beginning or at the end of the sentence and if you want use it in hte middle you will have to use an punctuation mark like a comma. 4-12-11 172 is saying that some words can be 2 words and some are one words.and some words are like they can be put as 1 word and some words might not be a real word. For example alright and all right, the words alright is not a real word and all right is a real word. Some people may get confused about is this section but if you get lost you will need to use a dictionary. 217 4-19-11 April is national poetry month in the U.S. When you are writing you have poetic license. Some people say that it is like cutting them come slack. For example “Bob use poetic license when he wrote that song. Mostly poets use poetic license when they are writing a poem and people that write songs. Poetic licenses are granted to poets. Some people say it is a privilege that is granted to poets so they can enlighten us and achieve some kinds of effects. It is like a freedom that they allow poets to have. And they can work with other sets or forms like rhythms and meter. Some book might make it seem like they are using unusual word order and hosiery words as did or do. For example “they all the day did lie”. Poets may put adjectives after nouns or they may use odd contractions. And use words as “tween” for “between”. And sometimes poets may even make up words like jaderwalky. Sometimes you here them being used in song lyrics. 239 4-18-11 Some tricky nouns are ground, zero, and earth. When you are trying to capitalize nouns at first you will have to find out if it is a proper noun because proper nouns are always capitalized. You will to remember that Noun is a person place or thing and a Proper noun is a specific person place or thing. Some names are Wan, Sarah, or Gesu are capitalized because they are proper nouns for specific people. Words like boys or girls aren’t capitalized because they are common nouns. Other words that could go either way are like internet is it one specific place or a collection of things. The internet is populated by many different websites like so websites aren’t capitalized. Ground Zero is a place where a nuclear bomb blew up and where rapid change took place. In these setting ground zero would be a common noun therefore it wouldn’t be capitalized. On the other hands most people agree that Ground zero should be capitalized. Another word that is like Ground Zero is Depression. It can be a common or proper noun. The word earth is referred as dirt it would be common noun but if you use it as our planet than it would be a proper noun. The other entire planet like Mars and Jupiter are always capitalized because they are specific places. Some people treat the earth differently and don’t capitalize is and in some cases it will be capitalized. Grammar Girl 211 5-9-11 march 4 is national Grammar girl day. Todays lesson is about Top 10 Grammar Myths. 10: A run on sentence is a long sentence 8: Irregardless is a word 7: there is a style chose to write Passive 6: Passive voice is when you don't name the person for the action 4: Use "a" before words with consonants and then use "and" before words with vowels 3: Is it incorrect to ask a question like "How are you" 2: It is okay to split infinitives 1: You shouldn't end a sentence with a precipitation if you are talking about the same thing that you left off on 218 5-10-11 Today's lesson is further vs. farther. Use farther for physical distance and further for figurative distance.It is easy to remember because the word farther has the word far in it. A good example is "I am further/farther along in my book than you are in your" because you can use farther as in the distance of physical or you can use further as figurative distance. Or what if you stop someone in a middle of a sentence and say "should we go and farther/further". In most cases it is okay to use any one of them. 209 5-2-11 Today we are learning about pronouns. The Song is called “I Believe” the words fly and me doesn’t rhyme. The song is gorgeous, inspiring, and uplifting. Having an I instead of but it is still offensive. I think that you shouldn’t be surprised that it is grammatically incorrect. 210 5-23-11 Today the guest writer Bonnie Train is going to help us talk about pronouns that don't clearly match up with pronouns that are supposed to replace. Readers become unhappy when they have to guess what noun the writer is talking about. Pronouns take the place of nouns. I and we are pronouns that appear in the subject position. As in we wrote a hit song. The pronouns me, him, her, you, us, them, and it must be in the object position as the batter hit the ball to me. Other pronouns you might encounter are possessive pronouns such as, her's and mine and indefinite pronouns as in anyone and somebody. 213 5-23-11 Todays episode concerns a what-you-may-have-been-wondering-about topic. It illustrates the problem of stacked modifiers, which occurs =s when you string together too many words to describe a noun at the end of the mouthful.Bill Walsh author of Lapsing into a Comma, calls this problem "adjective pileup" and Microsoft word's grammar checker will sometimes put a squiggle under a bunch of words and complain "Too Many Nouns." Modifiers describe, or modify, other words. Adjectives modify nouns or pronouns, for example, and adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. You don't run into any problems in single adjective-nouns combinations such as "illustrated book." And you can even use one noun to modify another. 219 5-23-11 Todays topic is "bad" verses "badly", and to make it fun we have a celebrity smack down. On this weeks Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump corrected Cyndi Lauper. Not only is Donald Trump not very nice but he's also wrong. "I feel bad," is perfectly acceptable. In fact its the best way to say it. Poor Cyndi Lauper. Confusing "bad" and "badly" are a very common error. The short answer is that it is correct to say you feel bad when you are expressing an emotion. The reason it is easy to be confused is that "feel" can be a linking verb or an action verb. Action verbs are easy to understand. They describe actions. If I reach out and touch your cashmere sweater to see how soft it is, Ive taken an action. I am feeling your sweater. 220 5-24-11 Bonny Trangle will help us know if adverbs are useful or evil. Master writer Steven King complains about them in his book On Riding "I believe the rode to hell is paved with adverbs and I will shout it from the roof top." he liking adverbs to dandy lions.Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs in other sentences sometime smashingly. Some examples are the adverb quickly could modify the verb to run, the adverb overly could modify the adjective sensitive if you wanted overly sensitive man. If wanted to modify someones cooking you would say "Clearly you didn't read the recipe. 222 5-24-11 Todays episode is about dashes, comma's, and parentheses. You can think of parentheses, commas, and dashes as a continuum of marks. Parentheses are the quit whispers of an aside. Commas are the conversation of voice. Dashes are a yell of a pirate dashing into a play. You can use parentheses to circle around something that seems a little out of place in a sentence. Here's an example of one way to use parentheses to add additional information " The 30th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helen (May 18th, 1980) brought back vivid memories of ash and darkness." The date May 18th 1980 is in the parentheses in the sentence because it is something you want to tell the reader but it isn't a necessary part of the sentence. If you leave it out the reader still gets the whole point of the sentence. if you want to hang a spotlight on your words hang dashes. You can use dashes the same way we used parentheses to enclose fragments or whole sentence, but you'd better be sure to be worthy of dashes. Dashes interrupt your sentence. in a way parentheses and commas don't. Here's an example "They fled through the woods and then George - dear sweet George - Jumps out from behind a tree and stabbed them. Its appropriate to interrupt that sentence with dashes to remind to reader that the attacker is expectingly
 * 5: EG means for example and IE means support a clearer word