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| Consists of a sender who encodes the idea. The message goes through the medium and reaches the receiver who decodes the idea. And the process can happen both ways. All this happens within a cultural context |
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Perceptual
Psychological |
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| When do you put a comma in a sentence? |
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| when there is two clauses, each one with its own subject. |
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| what is the simple subject? |
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| The subject without its modifiers |
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| What is subject verb agreement? |
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| The proper usage of verbs that match with the subject in number. |
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| Verbs that take the place of the subject or object in a sentence. They can also be used to express possession. |
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| Why is me and her kissed wrong? |
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| Because the personal pronouns are in the objective form and in this sentence they should be in the subjective. |
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| It is a series of words without a subject or a verb. acts like an adjective or an adverb. |
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| Example of a preposition? |
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| groups of words which have a subject and a predicate. |
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| What are Independent clauses? |
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| Those which are able to stand alone |
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| Are unable to stand alone. Provide additional information about the independent clause. Act as adjectives, adverbs, nouns. |
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| words that join clauses together |
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| coordinating conjunctions? |
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| Join two independent clauses ex, and but. |
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| Subordinating conjunctions? |
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| Join subordinate clause to main clause. ex. after, if |
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| What are relative clauses? |
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| Subordinate clauses which begin with the relative pronouns who which that. Act as adjectives |
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| What is the antecedent of a relative clause? |
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| The noun or pronoun that is being modified by the clause. |
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| What are the writing stages? |
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Planning
no org
minor org
outline
Drafting
Revising |
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| What are the two main things a paragraph should have? |
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The sub ideas need to all relate to the main idea
The sub ideas need to have a consistent relationship among them. |
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| A set of lines that deal with a single idea. |
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Primary- The ones that the writing is addressed to or intended for
Secondary- The ones that read or listen to it
key decision maker |
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| They need to know what to include in their writings, how to present the information and what they need to avoid. |
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| Rules for creating possessive nouns |
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1. If ends in an s or x then add apostrophe after
2. If it ends in anything else then apostrophe before the s. |
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| brief but comprehensive. Using as few words as possible to present an entire idea. |
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