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Abran Chavez is a 17 year old student who gose to Bravo medical magnet highschool . He loves to play soccer and its His number one sport . He is saying that ones he steps in to practice or a game all his stress is gone . Its his main stress relive . He has a family A Dad , mom , sister ,sister ,brother . Abran is the middle child of the family but only 11 months apart from his sister . He also has two pets Further more he has been playing soccer his hole life. He moved on to high school and now he is in varsity . Next step collage
PUNCTUATION and CAPITALIZATION Punctuation – Identify the functions of each mark and create one (1) example sentence of the usage for each mark. 1. . period ( Today is a good day . ) 2. , coma ( i went to the store and i choose between adidas , nike , puma or under armor.) 3. – called the EM dash Ex: 2+2=4 4. - called the EN dash 5. : is a colon indicates whatever comes after it is related to the word that came before it 6. ; it's a semicolon. ( They came to 3rd periode ; they learned about commas ) 7. ? is a question mark (how was your day ?) 8. ! exclamatory ( yes !)
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‘ Apostrophe or a quote mark . (It's a good day to
play soccer .)
9. “ ” possession “ His day was great “ 10 … ellipsis I'm going to tell you something later on... 11[ ] brackets something that has been added HE [ abran chavez] would like to pass all his classes . 12( ) parentheses parenthetical information ( answer here ) / backslash ex( And / or ) him/ her
EX: Comma (used to switch words around in a list) –Students at Bravo can freely choose between AP World History, AP US History, AP Government, and AP European History.
Capitalization – Identify and create one (1) example sentence for each rule of capitalization.
1.
Please list the rules of capitalization here: you should capitalize the first word, all nouns,all verbs (even short ones, like is), all adjectives, and all proper nouns .
NOUNS Types of nouns: (list three to five words of each type) · Common Nouns: name a class of people, places, things, or ideas. EX: six flags , restroom , soccer players , . · Proper Nouns: give the name or title of a particular person, place, thing, or idea (must be capitalized). EX: UCLA ,Subway , Panda express · Compound Nouns: consist of words used together to form a single noun. EX: ., whiteboard , seafood , seahorse · Concrete Nouns: refer to material things, to people, or to places. EX: Ball , pencil . shoes , phone · Abstract Nouns: name ideas, qualities, concepts, emotions, or attitudes. Functions (How nouns are used): Write one sentence for each function. · Subject (comes before the verb) Joe Joe has played wonderful game today
PRONOUNS Pronouns take the place of nouns that have been established. Personal: Nominative (subjects) Objective (objects) I/we me/us you/you you/you He, she, it, one/they him, her, it, one/them
Possessive
My, mine our, ours
Your, yours your, yours His, her, hers, its, one’s their, theirs
Relative:
Nominative Objective who whom
That that
those/ this
Possessive whose of that
Interrogative: who, which, what, whatever, whoever
Reflexive: (personal pronouns plus the suffix –self or –selves) Used only:
Tense: verbs indicate time via tenses
simple past past past perfect past progressive simple present present present perfect present progressive present perfect progressive future future perfect
Types: There are at least eleven (11) types of verbs: auxiliary verbs (helping verbs) linking verbs (verbs that do not describe action, but connect the subject of a sentence to other parts of the sentence –usually the predicate) lexical verbs (main verbs) dynamic verbs (indicate action) stative verbs (describe a condition) finitive verbs (indicate tense) nonfinitive verbs (infinitives or participles) regular verbs (weak verbs) irregular verbs (strong verbs)
Voice: Voice is the form of the verb that indicates how it relates or interacts with the action. The English language has two voices: ACTIVE and PASSIVE. Active: My mom got her email
through online
Passive: The email was sent to my
mom through online
Verbals: (VERB FORMS NOT USED AS VERBS)
Gerund: word ending in “ing” used as a noun.
· .Natlia chavez loves helping my mom cook in the kitchen
Participle: word ending in “ing” or “ed” used as an adjective · There is no playing on rainy days
. Abran Chavez saved the ball from hitting the plant
Infinitive: verb preceded by the word “to” (to go, to jump) used as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs
My little brother loves to kick the ball ever since he was small
Coordinating (FANBOYS): for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so Correlative: Either/or; neither/nor; not only/but also; both/and; whether/or; as/so Subordinate: after, though as, as if, as long as, as thought, because, before, if, in order that, provided that, since, so, so that, that, though, till, unless, when, where, whereas, while Relative pronouns: who (refers to people), which (refers to nonliving object or animals), that (may refer to animals or nonliving objects)
PREPOSITIONS Prepositions link nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other parts of the sentence. Prepositions are NEVER followed by verbs. There are one-word prepositions and complex prepositions. These are some common one-word prepositions: aboard, about, above, according to, across, across from, after, against, along, alongside, alongside of, along with, amid, among, apart from, around, as, as far as, aside from, at, away from, back of, because of, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but (except), by, by means of, concerning, despite, down, down from, except, except excluding for, for, from, from among, from between, from under, in, in addition to, in behalf of, including, in front of, in place of, in regard to, inside, inside of, in spite of, instead of, into, like, near, near to, notwithstanding, of, off, on, on account of, on behalf of, onto, on top of, opposite, out, out of, outside, outside of, over, over to, owing to, past, prior to, to, toward, under, underneath, until, unto, up, upon, up to, versus, with, within, without.
NTERJECTIONS Interjections are the final part of speech. Find and copy/paste an alphabetical list of interjections here.
