Sunday, September 18, 2016

What is a Sentence, Dammit?

Here are some lines from graduate student essays:

1.  When he laughed at my question, at first I was surprised, in all four years of my university career, a professor had never been anything but helpful when I asked for help.

2.  You sound angry, what's up do you have some deadline to meet and your computer is not working

3.  So you're saying you can do this movement better than me, is that it?

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Read the sentences aloud.  Find the places where one thought ends and another begins.





ANSWERS:

1.  When he laughed at my question, at first I was surprised.  In all four years of my university career, a professor had never been anything but helpful when I asked for help.
2.  You sound angry.  What's up?  Do you have some deadline to meet and your computer is not working?
3.  So you're saying you can do this movement better than me?  Is that it?