Sentence+Structure

Dependent clause: Had I not worn a mask today, I would have looked like an earthling. Repetition: The darkness loomed over us like an inevitable pitfall, a pitfall mouthing thrill and horror.

1. Which of the following doesn't work? Why. a. Bill played a musical number by Bach; Joan, Beethoven. b. Lou Williams was in for adultery; John Jones for gambling. c. His mother told him to rent a car; his sister, to pack the suitcases.
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b). There should be a comma after Jones.

2. Write your own original example. I ate a PB&J for lunch; my sister, a lasagna. 3. Find one from something you have read (this may take a couple of weeks).

Write a short 4-5 sentence paragraph concerning your reading about Frankenstein. Include a colon. The novel //Frankenstein// begins with a preface and four letters. One of these letters work to form a frame-in-frame narrative structure that creates an opaque layer between the narrator and the audience. However, the audience is befuddled: what is the purpose of having four letters that seem irrelevant to the story to come? The letters that discusses loneliness and venturing into untraveled territory only become more pertinent as Frankenstein story unfolds.
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1. Look carefully at the following sentence. Does it work? If so, why? If not, where can the sentence be broken into two or shorter ones that are not overwhelming. Robert Mondavi's father, Cesare, came from Sassafarento near Ancona, on the Adriatic coast of the Marches -- not a particularly rich or fertile part of Italy even now, nor, except for Verdicchio, much of a wine-growing region. A good deal less so, no doubt, in 1883, when Cesare was born as the son of a large, simple family and possibly the first member of it. I have read somewhere that he was able to sign his name. -- by Cyril Ray "Robert Mondavi of the Napa Valley"
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2. Does this sentence work? If so, why? If not, please correct. The typical teenage user of snuff is white, active, and athletic, and subjected to very heavy peer pressure. -->The red "and" should be gone because all three adjectives pertain to the characteristics of the typical teenage user of snuff. The second "and" however, is necessary, since it describes circumstances.

3. Same instructions -- The children gathered around the clown wishing for a balloon, angling for a smile, bowing before the childhood consumerism. This one works.

**2010**
1. Starting a gasoline-fueled lawn mower takes three simple steps: opening the choke, pulling the starter cord, and closing the choke once the engine is running.
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2. As a result of his first riding lesson at the Sage Ranch, Jason learned one thing about horses--when they are hungry, they stop to eat.
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1/11** Review vocab and punctuation. Write a sentence with a vocab word (that demonstrates the meaning of the word) and uses one of the punctuation methods discussed in class.

Milan Kundera's books __inculcate__ the readers with a philosophy of a balance in the way we love--a balance between "heaviness" and "lightness" in loving one another.

In //Frankenstein//, the first four letters and the preface I read weren't mainly about the story--it covered the intention of the writing and background of the narrator. The book starts with an exploration of the narrator and covers a lot of topics through his letters: loneliness, risks taken by the discovery of new knowledge, and many more. The letters are foreshadowing what's coming up in the plot.
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