Stop! Grammar Time!

• Past/Passed, There/their, two/too

• Combining Independent Clauses (compound sentences)
  Comma + FANBOYS
  Semicolon(;)
  Semicolon(;) + Adverbial Conjunction + comma(,)  

• Adverbial conjunctions


• Commas, Semicolons

• Let’s eat Grandma
  Let’s eat, Grandma
  Grammar Saves Lives

• Why do you always use this…? Or worse, this….?

• How have you been taught to punctuate thoughts?

• “Students, please punctuate dialogue correctly,” Mr. Koch screamed.

• Passive Voice?  Just use active verbs when you can.
  The passive forms of a verb are created by combining a form of the "to be verb" with the past participle of the main verb.

• Literature is NOW(and then) – Write in the present tense when talking about books.

• No weasel statements -  “In this_______I am going to tell you about _____________.” Or any variation thereof!

• “It is” is the ONLY time to write “it’s”

• Thesis Statements, Focus statement, what are you going to prove in your paper?After reading The Giver I learned that it is a good book because it shows that planning a society that has everything exactly the same and equal can turn out to have many flaws, and imperfections.For a student, every meal is an important time to charge up our bodies and should be easy to access with reasonable prices and quality of foods.