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This 3 page paper discusses basic English grammar rules including compound and complex sentences; how to use semicolons and how to use possessives. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Some Basic English Grammar Rules Research Compiled for The Paper
Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 4/2010 Please Introduction English is a strange language and it has a lot of rules
to learn. Theyre there not to antagonize students, but because they help organize the language so it makes sense. This paper discusses compound and complex sentences, the semicolon, and the
use of the apostrophe to show possession. Discussion English is weird, but it can also be fun. For example, the plural of "index" is "indices", but there is no plural,
as far as anyone knows, for "Kleenex." Somewhere along the line someone made one up: "Kleenices." This is funny because it assumes that the listener knows the word "index" and
its plural (and theres a possessive without an apostrophe), understands how its plural is formed (theres another one), and also understands that Kleenex doesnt have one. Put it all together
and theres the kind of silly linguistic joke that English majors love to devise. To add to the confusion, there are words that are singular and plural (one elk
or a whole herd of elk); there are words that sound the same put are spelled differently (how about "two," "to" and "too"-confusion about the last two abounds to the
despair of professors everywhere); and there are words that carry along extra letters that arent even pronounced: "knife" and "phone" and "gnarled," for instance. With all this stuff going on,
its no wonder English needs a few rules to keep it going. Simple, compound and complex sentences: A simple sentence has a subject, object and verb and expresses a complete
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