ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Preposition And Postposition, Semicolon, Infinitive

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Gaye Taylor

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Agreement: mr. sneep was shocked, appalled, in fact. To punctuate properly, you need to be able to see, but especially hear, the phrase and/or clauses that compose a sentence. Sentences are basic units of thought and therefore must be . Whether a group of words is a phrase or a clause will determine whether you need a punctuation mark, and which one you should choose. When the markets crashed, mr. sneep, an investment banker on wall street, sought temporary solace in many glasses of the finest scotch, and then departed to his great-uncle"s villa in provence for a permanent holiday. If you don"t know how to punctuate, you will : misuse the apostrophe, produce sentence fragments and run-o sentences that will make nonsense of your ideas, upon arriving in france. However he received a shock the villa had been sold and his great-uncle was in jail having been convicted of fraud: be less able to express complex ideas, concisely.