tailieunhanh - Basic skill for colledge 9

Tham khảo tài liệu 'basic skill for colledge 9', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | BASIC SKILLS FOR COLLEGE cally develop what sentence 4 started already. In essence you should see a connection about the defects. In most cases the period and the semicolon are interchangeable and the writer determines where the emphasis should go. Just be careful. A semicolon separates two complete sentences that are closely related to each other. Closely related is the key phrase here. However you cannot use a semicolon to connect a fragment to a sentence. See the section on semicolon errors that follows You should also notice that in correcting the obvious sentence errors transitions were used to create bridges to connect the sentences and establish stronger logic. For example although and however in sentences 4 and 6 helped to correct the sentence errors by creating separate sentences and making the author s point more clear. In the next paragraph underline and correct the following student sentence errors all found in a piece of writing by an entering community college freshman. 1 Cigarette smoking should be banned from all public areas it is a foul and disgusting habit. 2 It should be banned altogether cigarettes are dangerous to both the smokers and the people near them. 3 Another reason to ban smoking is because it is disrespectful to others why would anyone deliberately want to show such disrespect cause anger and hostility when trying to enjoy a meal or performance 4 As to why smokers smoke it is still a mystery even to them. 5 Public areas are where people come to enjoy themselves not to be bothered with cigarette smoke. On the lines that follow correct any sentence fragment errors that you find using proper punctuation or conjunctions. 1. __ 2. __ 3. __ 4. __ Check the end of the chapter for suggested answers. SEMICOLONS Because the semicolon is one of the corrections for the comma splice or the .