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Tasha screencast by okay okay last class or whatever you call this I introduce you guys okay hopefully load Seria okay last class I talk to you guys about independent and dependent clause independent clauses have three things there an independent clause can stand on its own as a sentence so a sentence or an independent clause has three things what is the first thing subject or something that it's about then a verb and it's a complete. Complete idea I can stand on its own so we talked about different ways we can combine sentences with independent clauses and other independent clauses or a dependent clauses cause they're missing one or more of those three things either a subject a verb or it's not a complete thought so we're just going to continue on and we'll do it another couple today and today will actually use the work looks so I'm glad you brought them I remember hearing about, splices when I was in school but I never really knew what they were pretty much a, splice is when you put a, between two independent clauses When you pray, instead of something like a. Or another types of so think of it like it's a, splice to the splicing between two independent clauses and IC my people do this because the, cuz she was like Hey I'm not exactly done the next thing I'm going to write about a similar if that's the case you should do something like this to my colon so here we have the correct way to write I don't know why I like this class so who's the subject I would suburb like it in this class helps it's it's off but this is a complete sentence on its own. It is very interesting what is the subject it and then was the first is in a very interesting help finish up the thought so if those are two independent clause is next to each other you should have some type of punctuation that shows that it's finishing that first thought up so either a. Or you can use a semicolon or you cut why is my cursor or you could have a, but you have to add a Fanboys member I mention this last time and that allows you to connect two independent clauses together more naturally or you could say something like because it is very interesting I like this place so a, splice is pretty much just when you have two sentences instead of ending the first sentence correctly with a. Or semicolon they're putting a, they're so avoid that don't do, but any of these at the bottom are correct Alternatives in order to avoid, splices you can do any of these examples all right I'm moving along pretty quickly let me know if you need me to slow down but I'm just going to go for it run on sentences this is also something that people misinterpret so also when I just didn't like him this whatever I'm just going to keep it there come on okay just one second okay I was going to talk about this is whenever my computer catches up will be there you going to have a really long sentence that the whole paragraph long but if it's working correctly it can be grammatically fine but a run-on sentence is when you're combining two independent clauses together without any type of let me get out of this wow now catches up okay here we go slowly getting there wow this reminds me of dial-up days okay run a sentence it's a fused sentence the Clauses not separated by any form of punctuation so it's the same thing as a, splice it's just there's no, there it's still incorrect and so we know that when there are two independent clauses we need to use some type of punctuation shows end of that thought so here's an example of a run-on sentence my professor is intelligent I've learned a lot from her where is the end what's the last word of the first independent clause intelligent Caso We need some type of punctuation there it's just show it's the end of that thought so one option is just to use that. My professor is intelligent. I learned a lot from her or you can use a semicolon or you can use the, and a Fanboys or semicolon and add one of those extra words that helps like a run-on sentence is most when you have two independent clauses smash together without any type I'm afraid to press next a sentence fragment sentence fragment is when it's missing is a dependent clause and that's what I thought you about last time so it's either missing a subject is missing a horse not a complete thought because I forgot the exam was today that leaves you wondering like what do in order to fix that you can stay because I forgot the exam was today I didn't study and now it is not a fragment it is a full independent clause or you could just drop that because and now do you have a complete thought the fragments are pants the same thing as dependent clauses but they're on their own and so the teacher says you're you got a bunch of fragments in here. Just mean I need to fix it so I can stand on its own however you made a lot of you maybe readers and you noticed that in novels that use fragments all the time there is a time and place to break the rules for emphasis but just know when you're writing something more professional academic you don't want to be using fragments so let's try so the first sentence is this this is the first sentence so is this an independent clause is it a fragment or run on or, splice so go ahead and think play Yoda in 321 a independent clause I was late to school again yesterday for the third time this week so in this example it looks like there's two sentences you're going to tell me if these are both independent clauses or if you wanted the fragment on the run on or one's a, splice so go ahead and look through an 321 fragment what it is because it says for the third time this week that's not a complete thought you could say I was late to school again yesterday for the third time this week without a. Because it is but on its own that is a fragment cuz it doesn't doesn't have all three parts can I can I can't help you or have to be home by 4 is this independent fragment run on, splice think about it 321 ronen C I can't help you be home by 4 if it's a run on that means that there needs to be punctuation in here where what's the last word of the first independent clause Hugo we should have some type of. Or semicolon that is a run-on I know him sixth grade for grade 6 think about it 321, splice good either two independent clauses they shouldn't have a, in between I'm at the, splice replace it with a. Or semicolon oh no okay we're good after getting home late John had something to eat and went straight to bed so determine whether these are independent fragments run-ons or, splices 3 2 1 fragment good so after getting home late is there an easy way to fix this it's not a fragment yeah replaces with a, and you just attach it with the rest of independent clause and makes sense so after getting home late, John has something to eat and went straight to that that would be totally fine if you do that again think about it 321 fragments good at least you thinking you need to know more so if you're looking for one go to the ACT book like a drink coffee and my brother drinks tea fragment run on, splice think about it 321 independent clause this is an example of two independent clauses melded into one with a, Fanboys this is correct if you took out the and then that would be a, splice okay where do I get your phones out I do not have cattiest I'm sorry I'm cheap I went to Maverick my way here to school and I realize like a candy bars a dollar fifty and I was like I'm sorry buying five candy bars for dollar fifty I don't have that type of money I mean I do but sorry I'd rather spend on myself MLB sound sorry that makes it really exciting but you'll just have to imagine it if you could use your first name and your last initial especially if your name is common in the United more particularly Utah play take another minute to get on so they can get picked up for my microphone for that you hear the song 24 seconds I start kerryon oh no my face is going to be either way her husband's wallet was full of cherry cider which one's cracked I'm going to cut it off at 10 seconds husband is possessive singular GPS that's your first name sorry your cancer mean okay you may not enter a blank room without his permission don't yellow sometimes we allow it but just don't do that one shutting off at 3 clever wallaby 43 Calvin and Maggie top 3 what are your black names play cutting it off in 5 4 3 a reminder children is the plural form of what child says children is already you're going to add apostrophe s children's with an apostrophe at the end doesn't exist the class Cod Pizza as blank prize for winning the spelling bee 4 3 2 1 the class has multiple people however the class is one class therefore you have to use the singular form of the verb and since it is possessive without an apostrophe at has to be the red version a veto DL which is correct you have to read all of them pages into the commas 5432 1 all right good job Whoopi Goldberg, an American actress, has won an e g o t remember that whole thing about unnecessary information if it's interjecting or interrupting a sentence with commas around it and this case is called an appositive phrase you may be familiar with that if you were my skin at one point you should know. If not remember it now English 10 in English 10 honors Abby let's see if they can hold that lead a which is correct pay attention to the commas alright this is a you need to put commas after every item in the list Cody and Fatima another one called examples 5 Seconds all right at the age of 10, you're starting with a dependent clause put a, you do not need a, between Java and python cuz it's only two you need three or more to have commas in a list caseem top three she insisted to go to the blank favorite flavor with Rocky Road turn off in 5 4 3 2 1 all right she's just a friend semicolon her favorite flavor was Rocky Road Abby Cota Cody and Tyler top 3 blank it comes to bubble gum that is a good price take honey off in 5 4 3 2 December blue the, splice I'm not trying to shame you but kind of I am you could have literally pick any other anyone right okay same top three the eggs in the carton blank about to expire five four three two I didn't try to trick you this is the eggs in the carton are about to expire axis plural if they said that in which one are really make sense is about to expire you say is you want to say that that's weird what are today's most popular and well-known artists blank Twenty One Pilots back when I made it it did I don't like them if you like them just fine but they're kind of Apple you're so annoying like I said you can like 5 4 3 2 1 plural it is 1. Steeler Forum which is is Cody Abbey Tyler a citizen has the right to Blank own house in play 5/4 321 all right the gender of the senior citizens so we stay his or her it is changing a little bit because sometimes you just stay there but it's kind of confusing cuz they don't know when they're lazy so there is a different technically his or her is going to be the correct form if they identify as one of those say Cody Abby Bethany the school's club which had 22 number blank verse in the district finals last year play cutting off in 3 2 1 all right remember the school is the main subject it is one Club so your energy use is or what now we can see if the rest of the sentence is in past tense I was going to be was don't be tricked by this 22 members were still only talking about the singular Club Cato d a b Bethany watching The Bachelor is M4 321 that's an example of what sounds right is right it's fun for me we are the maX it pawn with me not I hey Fatima came up answered Blake waited in line all night for Chick-fil-A when it opens Jay 543 2 Juan find Megan do Piper and Meagan she is the subject person to write her waited in line know she waited in line if you add another person to that it's still the same thing she and Megan waited in line for Chick-fil-A all night hey Bethany and 3rd famous couple blank as brangelina has split up this is old news but actually HobbyKidsTV I was blank that I stepped on your Lego castle 5432 1 you're really sorry we're going to talk about this today I think it's when you're tired and it's adverb so the words that are describing the birthday always almost always end in l y people do what the Abbey Bethany top three which is correct so if they're all of them play by seconds he hopped on his horse and a headed into battle 80 because there's no subject without punctuation Abby Cody Bethany he spent five days at the computer blank that the firewall works K 54321 where to buy nevermind I can't find it all right computer making sure that the firewall works this would need to be a, making sure the firewall work is not a complete sentence so it can you have to have a subject what is the correct answer K same top three after the war they cannot find blank their most loyal pet for years faces to separate sentences there needs to be . In-between how much time will this is just a question how much time do you have to take the ACT English test English not reading what is 45 minutes play Bethany Abby Cody how many questions are on the ACT English test a 543 1 75 you have to answer 75 questions you got to pace yourself please turn in your papers to doctor has mom and Now You See Me listen up you guys get all confused when I add another person what if we take out Dr Haslam going to say please turn in your papers to me I am the objective here I am not the subject so this phrase is still same thing you're still going to save me same top three is it a good idea to get random letters on questions you don't know on the ACT 54321 where is my cursor where is it disturbing yes you can wise if it's the wrong answer that's a SAT not the act however if you're going to get always guess the same letter that increases your chances of getting it cracks for example I took the GRE just now with the testis it's a test that a lot of people take to do their graduate so they're your master's program my program that I'm concurrently with only looking at the writing section but there is still like vocab and math so I did really well on the writing section and tried and then when I got to the math section I put be forever answer and guess what I was in the eighth percentile but I better than 8% people so just saying you gotta if you're going to guess guess the same letter am I proud of that Ernest Almeida underlined portion of the sentence what does the word omit mean this is a word that they use on the test a lot 432 take out do they ever ask you to Omit some section it means what part could make sense if it was taken out or deleted say LeBron 8 blank ice cream remember to focus on one thing so it's either back as an individual nor LeBron as an individual ate his ice cream ice cream skate his ice cream does not work like and does not combine them until plural my mom or dad blank out the trash game Concepts 5 Seconds remember or think about some singularly it's not combining them so if you said my mom takes out the trash my dad takes out the trash so it's the same thing when you combine them with or it's still going to consider singular K Cody Bethany Abbey 3 question is Carla needed for quarters for the bus but she only had three is this correct or are the others which one is cracked no, but she only had three we are combining two independent clauses with a, a fanboys Jason top 3 running Street Jose, the school bus which is correct you're starting with a deep in a cause, and dependent clause Park & Lock for car which is correct it is corrects you do not need, is here because the list it doesn't you don't you let's see I have nothing to give you but my praise and threw a nice job and second we have Cody awesome I don't know who you are Bethany awesome job runners-up L&M only you guys are really smart people the job all right let's continue if I can find my cursor alright the next thing we're going to talk about our Miss what's happening replace modifiers but it went away they modify something else they're giving us more information so the problem is sometimes we misplaced modifier which can confuse the meaning okay where's my cursor there it is wait okay these two sentences mean different things because aware the modifier is placed here's the first one I ate only vegetables and I only ate vegetables so with the people around you discuss how are they difference with the placement of only please stop these sentences which one is implying that you ate what's up Brianna saying okay which one makes you think wait do is explain it I can't see what I'm saying Unix okay I'll go for it exactly what I was thinking Yes W say I ate only vegetables and kind of implies the meaning that there's more than just vegetables there but you decided to only eat the vegetables if you say I only ate vegetables it's more like there was only the so we did this is an example of how old Lee a modifier and change the meeting of sentence where it's placed rolling remove my face always answer right here okay yeah oh wait no this is different. See the first sentence I ate only vegetables means that I ate nothing but I suppose no fruit no meat just as well say I only eat vegetables means that all I did with vegetables I told the all I did was I supposed to eat them I didn't plant them cook them I only ate them so hey yeah this is my bad the only is the first sentence is in front of vegetables that you're specifically only eating vegetables the only in the second sentence the 4H meeting. The only thing you're vegetables is eating them K that was like really bad on my part of the other examples are probably smarter than me and I'm okay with that play What's Next by looks similar I almost failed every art class I took and I feel almost every our class I took different positions so pay attention to how these mean differently mean different things just because almost is a different part exclamation How do you say I almost failed every art class except that means that it was closed but you still passed all the because the almost next to the failed part you didn't fail you almost failed the next sentence almost is in front of every meaning that you pass only a few of your art classes you almost failed every hour so that means that you failed a lot of them schoeneck slide dangling participles don't overthink this this is more specific to what I teach my students but it's concept or modifier is in the wrong spot that it confuses your brain alright I'm going to show you these are all examples of dangling participles and you're going to tell me or pay attention to what makes incorrect I was already told you this dandelion sprouted in every corner no way where's my cursor cake mix pancakes disappeared from my plate within seconds running after the school bus the backpack of Bounce from side to side so I'll do these sound like really fancy citizens cuz they have participles they are dangling or misplaced so if I say looking around the yard dandelion sprouted and every corner what does it sound like that's looking around the dandelions they're not h what is the sound like is doing the eating the pancakes for the pancakes or eating themselves like that doesn't make sense okay and then the third one this sounds like the backpack is running after the school bus that is Place modifier these words next to these participles are the wrong words this is how you fix them you're going to fix the subject I can't find my cursor that's like okay here we go I proceeded Annalise sprouted in every corner eating like a Hungry Hippo he made the pancakes disappear or you can say any name but I got some school bus but girl sells her backpack bounce picture that one you're putting information or modifiers next to the rest of the sentence it's next to the right heart or that the subject is correct any questions about this let's go through these and you're going to determine which one is correct based off of this newfound knowledge so option A spending way too much money on his old car bread salary just wasn't enough or spending way too much money on his old car fredston found abused salary so think this through 321 be good the first one might look like it's cracked because it's right next to it but really Price salary actually Fred so number two is the correct option my face is just wait okay once again pay attention to where which one is correct one must administer campaign funds carefully or become a respected politician campaign funds must be carefully administered think about it 321 a good job without a plan for the weekend we decided to take in a Saturday matinee I would say an old person would talk like this but it's still think Kay without a plan for the weekend Saturday matinee seems like a good idea at the time 321 a good job okay think about this in math terms if you can't put your arms next to each other and they were in a parallel form what would they look like parallel weather like this right when they're going in the same direction thank you okay so when we say parallel parallel structures in a writing kind of similar it means that I can look at these examples the first sentence below uses parallel structure is the second dozen try to figure out what makes it a parallel structure or Not The Writing Center needs Consultants who are ambitious who are self-motivated and who are dedicated the second version is not parallel Journeys Consultants who are ambitious motivate them how's an exhibit dedication yeah go ahead you want to explain but it's a parallel yes do notice how everything in this list starts with who are and then an adjective in the second example they start with who are ambitious but then it goes to motivate themselves which me which isn't saying it's not a service who are it's starting with Like a Bird that's not in the same form and exhibit gets the green one would be parallel however that can be a little redundant in a little annoying the way you do is it in the parallel kittens if every phrase starts with something like who are you can take out the who are for the rest of the list so you can change it to The Writing Center needs to nearest bar and dishes self-motivated motivated and dedicated so although they don't have to iron and they're still the same form and will make it feel better okay so ways that you can use parallel structure you can use it in an item in a series so an example as an artist he drew painted and sculpted those are listing what type of word Drew painted sculpted herbs good Joanna net in the same tense and past tense I came I saw I conquered all past tense verbs eat drink and be married present tense verbs 80 paired items and the musicians began to the only thing wait began only two thing but also to dance ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country same form but I'm going to this really quickly all right based off of our knowledge of parallel structure which one is correct the road wide low hard surface all the way and relatively Street the road is wide hard surface all the way and doesn't have many curves or the road is wide hard surface all the way and it is also relatively great K think about it in 321 a good job based off of parallel structure which is correct the computer is good-looking economical and you can take it anywhere you want I can get this computer is good looking portable and doesn't cost much or this computer is good looking at the namakkal and portable 3-2-1 good job florist in this list it's all additives horrible is another way of saying and you can take it anywhere you want however and you can take it anywhere you want is not an adjective at the whole other race okay let's play I do not have one of those books so what I want you to do is open up to the English section call me when you get to the first practice test tell me what number it is page number 42 okay the first practice test is offer English is Page 42 if you have a book go ahead and open to that you can't write in your book so get out a piece of paper or you can decide to write the answers in your phone I would prefer papers easier that way but it's up to you I know there are sections to the English portion and I think it's at 5 sections I think so cuz it's 9 can someone check for me but through that practice test and see how many like passages they have I'm pretty sure it's 5 passages and I correct or it's fine I'm pretty sure it's 5 because there's 45 questions no there's not yet there is no 75 questions anyway okay we're not going to take the whole English portions I would take forever or just going to do the first passage so it's going to have questions only about that first passage sister spy passages with in 45 minutes 9 minutes per passage if you were to break it up like perfectly right so obviously when you're taking the actual AC you may spend more or less time than 9 Minutes on each passage and then he just average out about 9 minutes that's fine but we're just going to practice making one passage and see if we can do it within that 9 minutes not that's a good indicator of how going to have to pace yourself when you take it so is everybody on page 42 everyone have something to write with or right on if not use your phone we are going to do this for 9 minutes retire best and also this is a good opportunity to figure out if you're facing is good or not let me get this to catch up don't look ahead play anyone need me to help you find where we are if you don't have a book maybe someone next to you is nice and lets you look at their coffee are you ready alright I suspect it will become completely silence and Siri go ahead and start 2 minutes left all right okay so if you finished with an ample amount of time that means that you do not have to rush so quickly you can go a little bit slower if you barely just keep in mind that you will add for passages and you may be able to calm down a bit and it will be such a problem tell me what to do next is look up the answers once again I do not know Azar's probably towards the back or the end of the English section I'm not sure if you're going to look up the answers for the first Passage of the English anybody know what page 114 okay so go to page 114 and we are going to check our answers what's really great about this is that it tells you the correct and why and then also tells you why the other answers are not correct the first check your answers and then you can go through and see what you got incorrect if you did read about it and you can also talk about it with the people are you okay so once you have marked whether you got a correct or incorrect go through and evaluate why you got it wrong and feel free to around you let steak and eggs if you still don't understand feel free to come up and talk to me and I may be able to explain it a little bit more thoroughly Let's Take 5 minutes

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