https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59 en-us 2016-02-06 20:44:08 UTC 2018-05-21 17:54:29 UTC hello@padlet.com giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93633371 2016-02-06 20:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93633371 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93633427 2016-02-06 20:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93633427 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93633499 2016-02-06 20:54:58 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93633499 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93636216 2016-02-06 22:08:26 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93636216 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93636640 2016-02-06 22:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93636640 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93636835 2016-02-06 22:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93636835 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93636872 2016-02-06 22:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/93636872 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94897817 2016-02-12 17:32:11 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94897817 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94899333 Variations : 
In Turin, the streets are set at right angles
At the beginning, she was an ingenuous girl

*He speaks English at home
At home, he speaks English]]> 2016-02-12 17:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94899333 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94941346 Normally : indirect-direct
-He gave his assistant a rise
-The success of his play brought him fame

Except : direct-to-indirect (when both are pronouns , for emphasis, when the indirect object is long, and with certain verbs . eg. explain)

He gave a rise to his assistant (and not to anyone else)

The success of his play brought fame to the author (not to the director, actors etc)
    (emphasis)

the pattern with to is also used when the indirect object is quite long :
She gave the painting to the New York Museum of Modern Art]]> 2016-02-12 21:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94941346 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94942258 from the most subjective to most objective 
when 2 adjectives are more or less the degree of subjectivity/objectivity , the shorter of the two comes first : 
a rude , inefficient secretary]]> 2016-02-12 21:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94942258 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94942525 very
too 
fairly
relatively
quite
extremely
excessively
overly

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adverbs of frequency (how often?


temporal adverbs (at which point?) :
already
finally
first
just
last
never again
not yet
once
only just
recently
soon


restrictive adverbs (to what degree?)
almost
barely
certainly
completely
entirely
generally
hardly
largely
nearly
partially
partly
probably
quite
rather
really
relatively
scarcely
simply
solely
surely
truly
wholly



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at all
at first
at last
by now
either
immediately
lately
once
recently
so far 
too 
yet

occasonally, pre-verb or final position adverbs can be found at the beginning of the sentence, set off by a comma for emphasis or variety
At last, she learned the truth
Usually, he is very punctual(but today he is not)]]> 2016-02-12 21:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94943476 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94943891 (generally those with a negative meaning)

hardly
in vain
little
neither
never
never again
no longer
no sooner
nor
not for the moment
not only
not until
nowhere
on no account
rarely
scarcely

Not only has her diary been published, her letters are in print as well


Until is a special case, because it requires inversion not in the clause in which it appears, but in the subsequent clause : 
Not until he had spoken for some time did I notice his accent]]> 2016-02-12 21:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94943891 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94945244 Compound sentences are formed by putting together, or co-ordinating, two or more independent clauses 

Simple semicolon and colon co-ordination
People travel to explore the world; they find themselves.
Some people smoke cigarettes; ohers chew their nails.

Mary Wollstonecraft never knew her daughter Mary Shelley : the mother died when her daughter was just few years old.


Short conjuntion co-ordination
(comma before the conjunction)
and
but
or
yet 
and yet

Long conjunction co-ordination
moreover (and, even more)
furthemore (and, even more)
in addition (and, even more)
likewise (and in the same way
however (but,and yet)
nevertheless   (but,and yet)
on the other hand(but, instead)
at any rate (but, anyhow)
in any case   (but, any way)
otherwise (or, or else, if not)
alternatively  (or, in another way )

Compound sentences co-ordinated by one of the long conjunctions are usually punctuated as follows :
independent clause; conjunction, independent clause
Sylvia Plath considered herself mainly a poet; however, her only novel, The Bell Jar, was her most successful piece of writing

Correct punctuation  aids the reader; moreover, it reflects thought on the part of the writer



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Relative clauses : 
defining relative clauses : no comma 


 non defining relative clauses (commas)
no that]]> 2016-02-12 22:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/94947632 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/222633212 2018-01-18 21:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/222633212 giovannacimino3 https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/223889020 Khan Academy on run-ons and comma splice ]]> 2018-01-23 17:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/giovannacimino3/690f1e3qto59/wish/223889020