Tham khảo tài liệu 'exam success vocabulary_4', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ------------------------------- SENTENCE CORRECTION --------------------------------------- Let us go it is getting late. I aced the interview I should get the job. Whether or not you believe me it is true I did not lie to you. You can correct run-on sentences in five ways with a period with a comma and a coordinating conjunction and or nor for so but or yet with a semicolon with a dash with a subordinating conjunction to create a dependent clause although because during while and so on The following is a run-on sentence corrected with each of the previous techniques The debate is over now it is time to vote. PUNCTUATION CORRECTED SENTENCE period The debate is over. Now it is time to vote. comma conjunction The debate is over and now it is time to vote. semicolon The debate is over now it is time to vote. dash The debate is over now it is time to vote. subordinating conjunction Since the debate is over it is time to vote. Rule 3 Respect sentence boundaries. Do not let two or more independent clauses run together. Phrases and Modifiers Sentences are often filled out by phrases and modifiers. Phrases are groups of words that do not have both a subject and predicate they might have either a subject or a verb but not both and sometimes neither. Modifiers are words and phrases that qualify or describe people places things and actions. The most common phrases are prepositional phrases which consist of a preposition and a noun or pronoun . in the attic . Modifiers include adjectives . slow blue excellent and adverbs . cheerfully suspiciously . In the following examples the prepositional phrases are underlined and the modifiers are in bold He was very late for an important meeting with a new client. He brazenly looked through her purse when she got up from the table to go to the ladies room. 115 --------------------------------- SENTENCE CORRECTION --------------------------------------------- Placement of Modifiers As a general rule words phrases or clauses that
