Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Final Exam Grammar/Style

Your final exam is Thursday, 1/22:

You should know parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns

VERBALS: INFINITIVES, GERUNDS, PARTICIPLES

PARTS OF SENTENCES: SUBJECT, VERB, DIRECT OBJECT, INDIRECT OBJECT

PHRASES AND CLAUSE: Independent, dependent

Complete Sentences, Run-ons, comma splices, fragments

Verb usage: Past, present, future tense

Agreement of subject and verb

Pronoun usage

Adjective and adverb usage

THE RIGHT WORD--Common word mistakes

PUNCTUATION: Comma, semi-colon, period, quotation marks, etc.

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