POLS 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Semicolon, Gerund, Independent Clause
16 Sep 2018
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Pols 1000 introduction to politics lecture week 2. Readings: making sense; chapters 12, 13 and 14. Chapter 12 common errors in grammar and usage. Sentence fragments: to be complete, a sentence must have both a subject and a verb in an independent clause, if it does it is a fragment. Run-on sentences: a run-on sentence is one that continues beyond the point where it should have stopped, a run-one sentence could also be one in which two independent clauses are wrongly joined by a comma. Independent clause: a phrase that can stand by itself as a complete sentence: two independent clauses should not be joined by a comma without a coordinating conjunction. Faulty predication: when the subject of a sentence is not grammatically connected to what follows (the predicate), the result is faulty predication, e. g. The reason was because change to the reason was that : e. g.
