Lecture 12: Commonly Confused Words PDF

Lecture 12 Commonly Confused Words ©McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. Authorized only for instructor use in the classroom. No reproduction or further distribution permitted without the prior  Homonyms Homonyms are commonly confused...

Lecture 12 Commonly Confused Words ©McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. Authorized only for instructor use in the classroom. No reproduction or further distribution permitted without the prior  Homonyms Homonyms are commonly confused words because they have the same sounds but different meanings and spellings. all ready/already break/brake course/coarse hear/here whole/hole its/it’s knew/new know/no passed/past peace/piece plane/plain principle/principal right/write there/their/they’re threw/through to/too/two wear/where whether/weather whose/who’s your/you’re ©McGraw-Hill Education  Other Commonly Confused Words (1) Accept – to Except - receive; excluding; agree to no Advise - to Advice – an counsel, to opinion give advice Effect – to Affect – to cause influence something; a ©McGraw-Hill Education result  Other Commonly Confused Words (2) Among – Between – implies three implies only or more two Beside – Besides – in along the addition to side of Fewer – used Less – refers with things to value, that can be amount, or counted degree ©McGraw-Hill Education  Other Commonly Confused Words (3) Former – Latter – refers refers to the to the second first of two of two items items named named Learn – to Teach – to gain give knowledge knowledge Loose – not Lose – to fastened; not misplace; to tight fitting fail to win ©McGraw-Hill Education  Other Commonly Confused Words (4) Quite – entirely; Quiet – really; rather peaceful Than – used in Then – at that comparison time ©McGraw-Hill Education  Key Terms (1) ©McGraw-Hill Education  Key Terms Clause: (2) A group of words having a subject and a verb. Dependent clause: A group of words having a subject and a verb that does not express a complete thought and is not able to stand alone; also called a subordinate clause. Independent clause: A group of words having a subject and a verb that expresses a complete thought and is able to stand alone. ©McGraw-Hill Education  Key Terms (3) A run-on consists of two complete thoughts run together without adequate punctuation to signal the break between them. There are two types of run-ons: comma splices and fused sentences. ©McGraw-Hill Education  Key Terms (4) Comma splice: a comma incorrectly used to connect (“splice” together) two complete thoughts. Example: I go to school, my brother stays home. Correct sentences: I go to school. My brother Fused stays home. sentence: a run-on with no punctuation to mark the break between thoughts. Fused sentence: I go to school my brother stays home. Correct sentences: I go to school. My brother stays home. ©McGraw-Hill Education  Three Ways to Correct Run- Ons ©McGraw-Hill Education  Method #1: The Period Use a period and a capital letter to separate sentences: An example: The run-on The bus stopped suddenly I found myself in an old man’s lap. The run-on corrected The bus stopped suddenly. I found myself in an old man’s lap. ©McGraw-Hill Education  Method #2: Comma + Coordinating Conjunction Use a comma and a joining word (and, but, for, or, nor, so, yet): An example: The run-on The bus stopped suddenly I found myself in an old man’s lap. The run-on corrected The bus stopped suddenly, and I found myself in an old man’s lap. ©McGraw-Hill Education  Method #3: The Semicolon Use a semicolon to connect the two complete thoughts: An example: The run-on The bus stopped suddenly, I found myself in an old man’s lap. The run-on corrected The bus stopped suddenly; I found myself in an old man’s lap. ©McGraw-Hill Education  Method #3 Variation: Semicolon + A Transitional Word Include a transitional word, or conjunctive adverb, to comment two thought. An example: The run-on The bus stopped suddenly, I found myself in an old man’s lap. Corrected The bus stopped suddenly; consequently, I found myself in an old man’s lap. ©McGraw-Hill Education  Reading for Run- ons To see if a sentence is a run-on, read it Be on the aloud, and lookout for listen for a words that can break marking lead to run-on two complete sentences. thoughts. Your Then, that, this, voice will and next are probably drop To check an some Make the appropriate and pause at entire paper, examples. correct we the break. read it aloud discussed above: from the last Period and a capital sentence to the letter first. As you read, Comma and a joining listen for word (and, but, for, or, complete nor, so, yet) Semicolon, alone or thoughts. with a transitional word Subordination ©McGraw-Hill Education  A Note on A fourth methodSubordination of joining related thoughts is to use subordination. Subordination is a way of showing that one thought in a sentence is not as important as another thought. An example The run-on Since her husband was having another insomnia attack Elana woke up at 3 a.m. to the smell of sizzling bacon. Corrected Since her husband was having another insomnia attack, Elana woke up at 3 a.m. to the smell of sizzling bacon. ©McGraw-Hill Education