COMMAS
When two phrases are improperly connected
What is a run-on sentence?
Person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
Uninvolved with people or events, unfriendly
What is ALOOF?
The setting of Of Mice and Men
What is Salinas, California in the 1930s?
Time and place of a story
What is setting?
An incomplete sentence
What is a sentence fragment?
Action
What is a verb?
To utter repeated complaints
What is YAMMER?
Lennie and George came from this town
What is Weed, CA?
Order of events in a story
What is sequencing?
A comma inserted where it should not be--Divides up the sentence incorrectly
What is a comma splice?
Describes a noun
What is an adjective?
Belligerent or aggressive
Pugnacious
George and Lennie's "jerkline skinner" or team leader of the working group.
Who is Slim the Skinner?
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement (resolution)
What are elements of plot structure?
You always need a comma before one of these in order to avoid a run-on sentence!
What is FANBOYS?
Describes a verb
What is an adverb?
Identify the part of speech: DISARMING
What is an adjective?
Others who want in on Lennie and George's plans
Who are Candy and Crooks?
Author's message about a topic
What is theme?
Identify the error: Ms. Knowles loves reading and writing so she decided to major in English.
What is a run-on sentence?
Identify the part of speech: Distraction
What is a noun?
Create a sentence using the word FAWNING.
This one's a wild card...
"To live offa the fatta the lan'"
What is George and Lennie's goal?
A ______ is something addressed in a story & can be just one word, while a _______ is what the author has to say about it & it must be a sentence
What are topic and theme?