Grammar 1
What's the mistake?
In math, we've been talking about inequalities and how numbers can be greater then or less then others.
then = than
What is the antecedent to the pronoun in this sentence?
As a child, Aunt Livia often played with her dollhouse.
"Aunt Livia"
Power lines cause cancer. I met a little boy with cancer who lived just 20 miles from a power line who looked into my eyes and said, in his weak voice, “Please do whatever you can so that other kids won’t have to go through what I am going through.” I urge you to vote for this bill to tear down all power lines and replace them with monkeys on treadmills.
Appeal to Emotion
An animal rescue team tells stories to an audience about the many successful rehoming situations that they have had over the years.
Anecdote
The manipulation of the recipient's emotions in order to win an argument, especially in the absence of factual evidence.
What is appeal to emotion?
I would hate to loose the game that we have tonight because I've been quiet busy preparing.
loose = lose
quiet = quite
Neither Carl nor Mark asked (his, their) parents to chaperone the dance.
"his"
Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist and perhaps the foremost expert in the field, says that evolution is the way to explain our origins.
Appeal to authority.
The structure of an atom is like a solar system. The nucleus is the sun, and electrons are the planets revolving around their sun.
Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
What is bias?
What's the mistake?
They're is a new car on the market and it's coloring is translucent; it almost looks invisible.
They're = there
it's = its
What is the mistake?
Don't touch the bear while its sleeping because you'll feel the effect of his anger.
its = it's
In the year 8,000 B.C., there were only 5 million people on Earth. 4,000 years later, the population had only risen by 2 million people, to 7 million people. Nowadays, Earth's population rises by 2 million roughly every 9 days.
Appeal to reason.
Just as a caterpillar comes out of its cocoon, so we must come out of our comfort zone.
What is analogy
Utilizing an expert to help improve your argument.
Appeal to authority?
If your not careful, the affect of laziness could cause you to become habitually lazy, and you won't be able to stop.
your = you're
affect = effect
What's the mistake?
If you're going towards the Bates building, you're going the wrong way if you need to find Mr. Link's room.
There is none.
In Japan, more paper is used to make manga than toilet paper.
Appeal to reason.
It seems like an easy argument to be against littering, but littering results in the creation of jobs. People get paid to clean up the litter.
Counterargument or counterclaim
Utilizing facts and statistics to improve one's argument.
Appeal to reason.
I think its to dark to go out on a hike. If we go now, we might get stuck out their, and than we would miss dinner.
its = it's
to = too
their = there
than = then
What is the mistake?
Not one hiker would set out without their compass.
their = his or her
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines fact as “something that truly exists or happens; something that has actual existence; a true piece of information.”
Appeal to authority.
By kicking bullies out of school instead of helping and directing them towards the right path, they will keep getting worse until it's too late. This will simply shift the problem from bullying within the school, to bullying outside the school too.
Counterclaim or counterargument
An argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument.
counterclaim or counterargument