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Do you believe in karma? In other words, do you believe that what goes around comes around? Have you ever experienced this? Explain.
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Today's Assignments
Fixing Run-On Sentences
Visit the following websites and take notes on clauses and run-on sentences. Identify the ways to combine independent sentences without creating a run-on sentence.
Clauses
Run-ons, Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Once you have taken notes, fix the run-on sentences on the hand out below. These are sentences from your papers!
Fixing Run-On Sentences
Finish this sheet for homework.
Fixing Run-on Sentences Name: Ashante Richards
ReplyDeleteFix the following run-on sentences using the strategies from class. You can change the order of the words, and add and delete words and punctuation, as long as the general meaning of the sentence stays the same.
1. One cold and rainy day Butch and the guys go after Vincent they chase him and call him “faggot” and throw him to the ground and kick him and he lands face down in a puddle.
One cold and rainy day, Butch and the guys went after Vincent. They chased him and called him a “faggot.” They then, threw him to the ground and kicked him; he landed on his face in a puddle.
2. Melvin was looking at a man at the other table and Vince said, “That is not going to bring a thing but trouble” so Melvin told Vince that the man at the other table is gay and he said how do you know?
Melvin was looking at a man at the other table, when Vince said, “That is not going to bring a thing but trouble.” So Melvin told Vince that the man at the other table was gay, and Vince said “How do you know?”
3. This came in favor of probably mostly gay people because then it was easy for them to find people like them just like if you’re straight you find people like you, they found out they were not the only ones confused or really homosexual.
This came in favor for gay people because it was easy for them to find people like them. It’s the same as if you’re straight, you find people like you. They found out that they were not the only ones confused or really homosexual.
4. She is saying all Hispanic people eat rice and beans and pork chops just to keep their strength up it meant that they needed to eat those foods just to have enough strength in the morning.
She said that all Hispanic people eat rice, beans and pork chops, to keep their strength up. This meant that they needed to eat those foods to have enough strength in the morning.
5. This example taught us once again that you are never alone there is always someone out there that is just like you goes through the same thing that you go through.
This example taught us once again, that you are never alone and there is always someone out there that is just like you. They even may go through the same things as you.
6. Eugene’s mother also stereotyped Elena and Eugene, saying that her son didn’t want to study with Elena, implying that Elena was beneath them, and that her son was smarter and better than Elena.
Eugene’s mother also stereotyped Elena and Eugene. She said that her son didn’t want to study with Elena because she thought that Elena was beneath him. She believed that her son was smarter and better than Elena.
7. Elena’s mom tells her that she is heading for humiliation and pain, the reason why her mom tells her that is because society had discriminated and stereotyped people like Elena and her mom so much that the only thing that comes to Elena’s mother’s mind is humiliation and pain, because society does not permit for people like Elena to be with people like Eugene.
Elena’s mom tells her that she is heading for humiliation and pain. The reason why her mom tells her that is because, society discriminates and stereotypes people like Elena and her mom so much, that the only thing that comes to her mind is humiliation and pain. This hurts her because society doesn’t let people like Elena to be with people like Eugene.