The complete idiot guide part 17 ppt

... Babe Ruth was the best-paid athlete in the world at the time. Strictly Speaking Why is there a period at the end of each independent clause? Because they are complete sen- tences. ... show their dedica- tion to their departed leader by following what s left of The Grateful Dead around the country. The gerund phrase is "following what's l...

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... either/or, neither/nor agree with the antecedent closer to the pronoun. • Neither Toody nor the other officers eat their jelly donuts on duty. Use the plural pronoun their to agree with the plural ... position." Here are some other mixed metaphors: • Milking the temp workers for all they were worth, the manager barked orders at them. (The first image su...

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... The subject of the sentence is "you." To find the subject in a question, rewrite the question as a statement. The question "Is the frog in the freezer?" becomes " ;The ... come before the verb. Not so with ques- tions. In a question, the verb often comes before the subject. Here are some examples: • Is the frog in the freezer? The sub...

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... is the only place in the world where pyramids were built. Back then, all the water for the land and its people came from the River. Natural barriers protected the land from invaders. There ... deserts to the east and west that cut off Egypt from the rest of the world. There were rapids on the Nile to the south. Delta marshes lay to the . This circle of isola...

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