college english

• Coordinate choppy sentences with improved sentences.
• Subordination is used to give unequal emphasis to two or more ideas, express the major idea in an independent clauses, and place any minor ideas in phrases or subordinate clauses.
• Coordinating conjunctions, also known as FANBOYS, are used to coordinate two independent clauses.
• Subordinate clauses cannot stand alone and begin with: after before unless whether whom although if until which whose.
• Paraphrasing involves using your own words to express someone else's ideas while still preserving the main idea of the original source.
• This is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words.
• To paraphrase, read and make notes, find different terms, put the text into your own words, and check your work.
• Summarizing is a brief overview of an entire discussion or argument.
• Summarizing is also defined as taking a lot of information and creating a condensed version that covers the main points.
• To summarize, get a general idea of the original, check your understanding, make notes, write your summary, and check your work.
• A pronoun is a word that takes the place of one or more nouns.
• The most frequent pronouns are called personal pronouns, which refer to people or things.
• Case is the form of a pronoun that shows its use in a sentence.
• There are three cases: Nominative, Objective, and Possessive.
• A subject of a sentence is in the nominative case.
• A predicate nominative follows a linking verb and defines or renames the subject.
• An object nominative cannot stand alone without the support of the subject.
• An indirect object will never exist if there's no D.O.
• Maintaining consistent verb tenses in writing is important.
• Placing phrases and clauses so that the reader can see at a glance what they modify is crucial in writing.
• Misplaced modifiers can lead to ambiguity in writing.
• To repair a dangling modifier, you can either name the actor immediately following the introductory modifier or turn the modifier into a word group that includes the actor.
• A verb is a word that expresses an action.
• Do not omit words necessary for grammatical or logical completeness.
• Single words should be balanced with single words, phrases with phrases, clauses with clauses.
• A voice tells whether the subject of the sentence is the doer or receiver of the verb.
• Narrative Writing involves imagination, is based on personal experience, and is the act of telling a story.
• If two or more ideas are parallel, they should be expressed in parallel grammatical form.
• In Narrative Writing, the author is the narrator and emotions are present in the paragraph.
• Passive Voice is when the subject of the sentence receives the action.
• Active Voice is when the subject of the sentence does the action and transmits the action to a direct object.
• Parallelism, also known as parallel structure, is when phrases in a sentence have similar or the same grammatical structure.
• Comparison should be complete enough to ensure clarity.
• Sometimes the words other must be inserted to make a comparison logical.
• Effective sentences use parallelism, sentence unity and sentence construction, and avoid leaving ambiguity on meaning.
• Active voice is more direct and concise than Passive Voice.
• Sentence Unity and Sentence Construction are important in effective sentences.
• A pronoun can be the subject of the sentence or the object of the sentence.
• Possessive case shows ownership or possession.
• Reflexive pronoun emphasizes the subject.