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English Grammar
We are continuing in our unit on punctuation.
As with all examples and exercises in
all of our ESL Help! Desk units, the sentences you see below
are contributed by other ESL students in college-level ESL
classes. To study this unit from the beginning, click
here:
Lesson 1: What Is Punctuation?
Otherwise, please continue below:
Is this a
sentence?
Although I am poor, but I am happy.
Other wise, please continue with our unit on SENTENCE FRAGMENTS.
One frequent error of learners of English is to use
although and
but in the same sentence.
Both but and
although are
subordinating conjunctions and
introduce subordinating clauses. When
somebody uses both in the same sentence, as in the example before, there is no
main or independent clause. This is a serious writing error.
We have it listed here under Punctuation but it is
an error in
syntax, or sentence structure.
The presence of fragments in formal writing is unacceptable. It is very distressing to writing teachers and can keep a student from moving ahead in his writing and English program.
HOW DO YOU REPAIR THIS?
CLICK HERE to
CONTINUE TODAY's LESSON on
SENTENCE
FRAGMENTS:
Using 'but' and 'although' in the same sentence.
What's the Word? Our Word of the Week
When there's a shakeup, there's news.
What's going to happen? Lately we've had some pretty big
shakeups in the "business" section of the news,
which have had implications for the general economy and health
of the nation.
Learn about the verb form
(to) shake up and the noun form of this word, and how recent shakeups may be impacting you.
Tune in to
today's vocabulary lesson on our vocabulary blog.
more
Reading and Listening Comprehension
Today we have listening comprehension for you. Listen to a video put out by
the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about climate change.
Listen to information about something that is affecting us all.
Click here for the reading and for a vocabulary list, your comprehension questions, and ideas for further research.
Quiz
Have you done
our unit on sentence structure? If not, you can use this quiz as a pre-test.
If you have begun and completed the unit, use the quiz as a post-test.
Click here for the Sentence Structure Power Edit Quiz #1.
American Culture
A PERFECT GAME? A favorite team?
Baseball is played
from the United States to Japan, and the 2012 baseball season is underway.
Who - if anybody - will pitch the perfect game? Learn about
America's pasttime -
baseball - and the perfect game.
more
What Else? Other News
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Don't hesitate to tweet us with your questions about grammar or vocabulary, or just to say "hello"!
Thank you also for adding your comments to
our blog. Comments are always welcome.
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