CHOMP

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CHOMP

• Final Exam

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Structure

• Identifying run-ons, comma splices, and fragments
• Identifying phrases and clauses
• Identifying sentence structure (S, Cd, Cx, Cd-Cx)
• Identifying style
• Cumulative, periodic, balanced sentences
• Emphatic repetition
• Fixing sentence errors
• Impromtu Essay

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Phrase/Clause Review

• Talking on the phone creates distractions for
  drivers.
• That you are willing to study for this exam
  increases your chance at success.
• This weekend, I got to take my dog to the dog
  park.
• When we go to the dog park, Tuk is always very
  tired the next day.
• Running around, Tuk always finds a new friend to
  play with.

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Phrase/Clause Review Cont

• Tuk, a Siberian Husky, sheds so much that I had
  to buy a cover for my car.
• My cars black interior was covered by his white,
  squiggly fur, even with the cover.
• He is a dog that always gets compliments from
  other owners at the park, mostly due to his
  wolf-like appearance.

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Sentence Structure

• Many of the soldiers who fought in Vietnam wrote
  accounts of their military experiences
• Most of these writers were amateurs, but one of
  them, Tim OBrien, became a professional
  novelist.
• The articles and letters that he wrote during the
  war were later published under the title The
  Things They Carried.
• The book contains many lively anecdotes and vivid
  descriptions, but the picture of war that emerges
  from the pages is far from glamorous.
• According to OBrien, war is chiefly made up of
  marching, fighting, rain, mud, and death.

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Sentence Styles

• I would wait for him to arrive on his designated
  weekend, watching intently for the first sign of
  the pale yellow 1966 Dodge Dart with black racing
  stripes, listening for the rackety sound that the
  overstressed, oversized engine made.
• Knowing that exams were nearing, feeling the
  pressure of the final grades impact on class
  rank, watching her competitors study harder than
  she would have time to, Sally knew valedictorian
  would be out of her grasp.

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Sentence Styles

• It was the best of times it was the worst of
  times.
• The screams from the woman were more than just
  screams they were terrified screams, screams of
  pain and injustice.

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Sentence Revisions

• Unlike high school, college students must
  purchase many of their own textbooks.
• A. Unlike high school students,
• B. Unlike high schools,
• C. Unlike the policy in high school,
• D. Unlike high schools textbook policy,
• E. Unlike high school,

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Cont

• The poem Jan wrote is expressive of grief over
  the death of a dog.
• A. expresses grief
• B. deals with grief
• C. grieves
• D. deals with an expression of grief
• E. is expressive of grief

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• The philosopher asked Is the cup half full or
  half empty?
• A. , is the cup half full or half empty?
• B. , Is the cup half full or half empty?
• C. , Is the cup half full or half empty?
• D. Is the cup half full or half empty?
• E. Is the cup half full, or half empty?

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• The once beautiful dress was now torn and had a
  faded color to it.
• A. was now torn and faded in color.
• B. was now torn and faded.
• C. had been torn and made to fade.
• D. now had tears and a faded color to it.
• E. was now torn and had a faded color to it.

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• Hopper had the vision to see the future and think
  about what computers could become in the next
  fifty years.
• a. no change
• b. Hopper had the vision to see what computers
  could become.
• c. Hopper had vision
• d. Hopper thought about computers.

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Tips

• Review punctuation
• Watch for
• Active vs. passive voice
• Parallelism
• Conciseness