or by combining them with neighboring sentences. Three ways of fixing fragments 1. Find the predicate Locate the verb. A verb is the action word in a sentence. Verbs express action‚ existence or occurrence. To find the verb in a sentence‚ identify what happened. If there is no identifiable action‚ the sentence is a fragment. Examples Fragment: Color papers everywhere. Complete sentence: Color papers are everywhere in the classroom. Fragment: The richer the community‚ the tighter the security
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Arianna Cosme English 1005 - Tessier Compare and Contrast October 15‚ 2014 Summer vs. Winter Although summer and winter both occur when the Earth is titled toward the sun‚ there are very different seasons. The first and most obvious difference between summer and winter is the weather. During the summertime the days are warm and sunny. Temperatures range from 70° and above with a slight breeze‚ making it enjoyable to be outside. Toward the end of summer people tend to worry about hurricanes
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Compare and contrast how a university student reads and responds to lecture notes that he/she has created themselves and notes borrowed from a friend. Thesis Statement Topic Sentence 1 While students are always encouraged to prepare their own notes from lectures that they attend‚ it cannot be denied that there are times when students may not be able to be present at a lesson. As such‚ he or she would need to depend on notes prepared by a classmate so as not be left behind in lessons. This essay
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The Comparison I often compare and contrast a lot of different things. I compare TV shows like: Friends and That 70’s Show‚ Pawn Stars and Hardcore Pawn. I also compare athletes like: Tom Brady and Peyton Manning‚ Ray Allen and James Harden. This time I am going to compare two big time movie stars who who’s specialties are action movies. Dwayne Johnson‚ also known as “The Rock”‚ and Vin Diesel are these two hardcore‚ excessively masculine actors. I am about to explain why both men are alike and
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Compare and Contrast Essay The story Harrison Bergeron was set in two different years in the future‚ 2081 and 2053. The basic story between all three works is everyone being equal and “handicapped”. Harrison is a young adult living with his parents and is taken away because he is too smart than the “average” person‚ which in the real world be considered dumb. He rebels against the government and shows up on television to show people how their live would be without being handicapped. At the end
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Compare and contrast University of Phoenix Material Literature Compare and Contrast Table Select three literary works that you have read in class‚ and that you think are connected in at least one way through convention or device. Consider the following: theme‚ genre‚ literary technique‚ culture‚ use of literary devices such as symbolism‚ and how diction is used to suggest culture‚ class‚ ethnicity‚ historical period‚ or
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Misti Nelson November 9‚ 11 Professor Gramse Compare and Contrast When I was little‚ I remember going to fish camp for the summer and helping cut and hang fish so we can prepare to feed our family and other people around the campsite. Because sharing is the way I remember how we survived and lived with our family. Hunting is a big part of life in Alaska. In Alaska we have rich traditions called subsistence‚ that people up here in Alaska go hunting in and using to sustain their community
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Compare and Contrast Many have heard the saying‚ “Nobody’s perfect” and truth is no one is. Everyone has something they want to change or improve about themselves. Society plays a big role in encouraging people to look a specific way‚ a way that is described as its version of perfect. A way that helps portray this vision of what people should look like is through advertisement. Ads are what grasps the attention of society and fights to pull them into contributing‚ buying‚ etc. their products and/or
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to hear of how self-absorbed and dependent today’s youth has become of others. Our elders grew up with a completely different mentality then the one we have today and feel that it is impossible to understand the way us "teenagers" think. Conventional wisdom has made us believe that our current generation might be the "worst generation we’ve ever seen". In my personal opinion‚ I disagree with this statement. I don’t think it’s possible for one to compare two generations with each other. Both of
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Clarissa Caplinger Compare and contrast: Oskar’s personality In the novel‚ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer The book’s narrator‚ a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell whose father (Thomas Schell) dies from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11‚ 2001. Oskar then copes with his father missing from his life by trying to find the owner of a key he found in
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