Tag: grammar
Expanding Sentences with Semicolons, Commas, Parentheses, and Dashes
If your students are anything like mine, they overuse parentheses (where they learned this, I have no idea!) and they view semi-colons to be as about as foreign as hieroglyphics. Although punctuation ... Read More
Simple, Compound, Complex Sentences
I probably don’t teach as much grammatical jargon as some other ELA teachers; however, I have found that most of my students have a shaky understanding of how to use commas, and sentence types a... Read More