More Grammar and Easy Bib

Apostrophe answers. Apostrophe fails.

 Everyday Writer Section 35.  What's wrong with these? 

◦The young girl was walking the dog in a short skirt.


◦The dog was chasing the boy with the spiked collar.
And these?

◦Having been thrown in the air, the dog caught the stick.


◦Smashed flat by a passing truck, Big Dog sniffed at what was left of a half-eaten hamburger.

Thanks to Big Dog's Grammar for these examples.   We  go to the lab so you can do this self test on Dangling Modifiers and Misplaced Modifiers.

Now you do Ex. 35.1 in Ev. Writer p. 82 in your daybook numbers 2,3,4,6,9,10.

Then you register with EasyBib and create a Works Cited page for this paper. Record you log-in info in your daybook!!

Homework:

1.  Draft 1 due tomorrow.


2.  TWFTD:  a word from your article, with a quote from the article, and a definition that matches. Cite the author as source of the quote, and cite what dictionary you use.