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I. Grammatical Structures (continued)
Question forms
negative forms of information questions (e.g., What doesn’t she like?) with modals (e.g., Should she take this course?)
Negation
with conjunction unless (e.g., Don’t call me unless you need help. Unless you have a permit, you can’t drive.)
Prepositions
with a variety of phrasal verbs (e.g., be away, be back, be for, be over, be up; ask about, ask for, ask [someone] in, ask [someone] out)
despite, throughout, until, according to
Sentences
complex, with addition of second subordinate clause (e.g., The ball, which he threw wildly, bounced off the tree and hit Sunita, who had stepped into the park.)
complex, with relative clause(s) (e.g., She reads books that explore environmental issues.)
indirect speech with wh questions and if (e.g., I asked him what he was doing. We asked him if he would go to the movies.)
relative clause + that (stated or implied) (e.g., The car that was speeding caused an accident. The sweater [that] I bought was too small.)
noun clause + that (stated or implied) (e.g., I know [that] you’re smart.) indirect speech + a variety of tenses
self-correction of common sentence errors (e.g., run-ons, fragments)
II. Conventions of Print
Punctuation
hyphen
colon, semi-colon apostrophe quotation marks parentheses ellipses
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