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August 4 “I Threw the Cow Over the Fence Some Hay”

• The use of prepositions and how to use them.
• Independent clauses, dependent clauses, and how to get them to match
• Misplaced modifiers and those pesky dangling modifiers

August 11: “Pronouns and  verb voice – What You Never Knew”.

• Pronouns versus Proper nouns (pronoun case problems)
• Shifts in verb voice
• Shifts in verb mood

August 18: “Why are My Sentences so Long?”

•  Dangling modifiers (once again!)
• Parallelism
• Run-on Sentences
• Comma Splices
• Sentence Fragments

August 25: “Where does the comma go?”

• Commas
• Em Dashes and why not to use parentheses
• Ellipses, how to use them, and when to use an em dash