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Examples:
Quick + ly = quickly
Strange + ly = strangely
Dead + ly = deadly
Sudden + ly = suddenly
Clever + ly = cleverly
Brave + ly = bravely
Real + ly = really
• When an adjective ends with "y" replace the "y" with
an "i":
Heavy + ly = heavi + ly = heavily
Happy + ly = happi + ly = happily
Example: a nice red shirt, on the roof, with care, has been snoring, to buy
a car, her eyes on the clock
Clause – group of words having at least one subject and one predicate
An independent clause expresses complete meaning unlike a dependent
clause
•Lisa loves cats yet she does not want one living in her house.
•Lisa loves cats, yet she does not want one living in her house.
•When using a coordinating conjunction to connect two items, do not
use a comma.
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Example:
Tom walked the dog and grabbed the mail.
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("Tom walked the dog" is an independent clause, but "grabbed the
mail" is not.)
Examples:
John is the guy who came over for dinner last week.
Here, we have two clauses. “John is the guy” is the main clause, and “who came
over for dinner last week” gives us more information about John. The word
“who” acts as the subject of the dependent clause.
“We talked about music and movies” is the main clause, and “while we ate”
gives us more information. However, in this example, both clauses have the
subject “we.” The word “while” does not act as the subject of the dependent
•Correlative conjunctions are pairs of conjunctions that work
together to join phrases or words that carry equal importance
within a sentence.
•When using correlative conjunctions, ensure verbs agree
•Example: Every night, either loud music or fighting neighbors
wake John from his sleep.
•When you use a correlative conjunction, you must be sure that
pronouns agree.
•Example: Neither Debra nor Sally expressed her annoyance when
the cat broke the antique lamp.
•When using correlative conjunctions, be sure to keep parallel
structure intact. Equal grammatical units need to be incorporated
into the entire sentence.
•Example: Not only did Mary grill burgers for Michael, but she
•either . . . or
• We can go to either Greece or Spain for our holiday.
• It’s my final offer – you can either take it or leave it.
•both . . . and
• Both rugby and football are popular in France.
• Both English and Welsh are spoken in Wales.
•not . . . but
• There are not two but three Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia and
• neither . . . nor
• Neither Norway nor Switzerland is in the European Union.
• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
(Abraham Lincoln)
• whether . . . or
• Whether you love them or hate them, you have to admit that
the Rolling Stones are very popular.
• I’m totally confused – I don’t know whether I’m coming or going.
• no sooner . . . than
• No sooner had I finished watering the garden than it started
raining.
•Here are some more pairs of correlative conjunctions:
•In this sentence, the conjunction and connects the two things Martha
did.
•I can’t decide between the blue shirt and the red shirt.
•We barbequed hamburgers, hotdogs, and sausages.
•I worked quickly yet am careful.
•When using a conjunction, make sure that the parts which are
being joined by the conjunction have a parallel structure (i.e. that
they use the same verb forms, etc.)
•Am careful is not in the same form as quickly; this creates faulty
parallelism. The verbs need to be in the same form.
• Basically 2 types
- One word – at, on, in, by, with
- Complex – in front of, along with, out of
• Before a noun or a noun phrase or –ing form
In the class, At home, On the desk, On heating
• Since denotes from a point of time in the past until now and
usually comes after the present perfect tense or present perfect
continuous tense in a sentence