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Writing/Mechanics

• #+title: Writing/Mechanics
• Exercises
  • Grammar Revolution Exercises [[https://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/grammar-quiz.html]] :collapsed: true
    • Identifying Sentence Fragments -- all correct
      • 1. Fragment, 2. Fragment, 3. Sentence, 4. Fragment, 5. Sentence,

6. Sentence, 7. Fragment, 8. Fragment, 9. Sentence, 10. Fragment
   • Completing Fragments
     • My sister's lion ran all over town.
     • The red and blue chair is smaller than the blue and red chair.
     • The famous chef from your favorite television show is walking towards us.
     • The rain ruined my cricket plans.
     • Rudyard Kipling swam two miles in the rain.
     • That little boy hates completing sentences.
     • I would be very surprised if I only read twenty books this summer.
     • That robot doesn't have a calculator.
     • May I use your sense of style?
     • My math teacher doesn't like English homework.
   • Run on sentences -- could have also used semi-colons to split the sentence as a fix.
     • My grammar teacher is incredibly nice. She works hard to teach me.
     • I'm so glad that I am learning proper grammar!
     • Do you like football? My dad loves it.
     • I always watch my sister's soccer games.
     • It's really hot today; we're going to the ocean.
     • Lea, Natalie, and April walked around town and ate ice cream.
     • We're eating pizza for dinner tonight.
     • I saw a deer in the woods. It had a white tail.
     • The gardener trims the plants on Tuesdays. He does a great job.
     • I love that blue dress; the color looks great on you.

• Chicago Style Workout :collapsed: true
  • https://cmosshoptalk.com/2018/06/26/chicago-style-workout-27-grammar-part-1/
  • Mistakes
    • Only nouns and pronouns have case: relationship between that word and the others in a sentence
    • A noun serving an objective function is never the subject of the following verb
    • the genitive case is the possessive case ~ but has 7 different functions
  • https://cmosshoptalk.com/2018/07/31/chicago-style-workout-28-grammar-part-2/
  • Mistakes
    • Genitive of a compound noun is done with an apostrophe to the last word
    • Commas frame an appositive unless it is restrictive

— Kunal