1. A. A lot (more than three hours) B. Quite a bit (more than an hour but less than three hours) C. Some (an hour or so) D. A tiny bit (about 10 minutes) E. Not at all September 16, 2013

2. Final draft of Essay #1 due to Turnitin on Sunday, September 22, 2013, by 11:55 p.m. Quiz #2 moved to Monday, September 23 3. The tense of a verb shows the time that the action or condition takes place. The three basic tenses in English are present, past, and future. 4. The present tense shows an action or condition taking place at the time the writer is writing. The present tense can also show an action. Bruce has a big kitchen. He cooks every evening. 5. The past tense shows something that began and ended in the past. To form the past tense of most verbs, use the ed form of the verb. Last week, Bruce cooked for his friends and family. 6. The future tense shows something that will take place or will probably take place. To form the future tense, use will or be going to and the present tense of the verb. I will learn the periodic table next week. These studies are going to make a difference in my grade. 7. As a general rule, stay with the tense you begin with at the start of a paragraph unless the time you are talking about changes. Avoid shifting from one tense to another for no reason, because these shifts may confuse your readers. 8. Edit the following paragraph to correct unnecessary shifts in verb tense. The first sentence in the paragraph is correct. 1. Manny collects antique bottles. 2. He will buy bottles if he liked them, but he prefers to find them in the ground. 3. He will find bottles everywhere. 4. However, he has the best luck at construction sites on old farmland. 5. Often, bottles appeared on the surface after a good rain. 6. He will use special tools for excavating bottles, including a set of brushes. 7. He did not want to break the bottles as he removed them from the ground. 8. After finding a new bottle, Manny will add it to his display case. 9. Edit the following paragraph to correct unnecessary shifts in verb tense. The first sentence in the paragraph is correct. 1. Manny collects antique bottles. 2. He buys bottles if he liked them, but he prefers to find them in the ground. 3. He will find bottles everywhere. 4. However, he has the best luck at construction sites on old farmland. 5. Often, bottles appeared on the surface after a good rain. 6. He will use special tools for excavating bottles, including a set of brushes. 7. He did not want to break the bottles as he removed them from the ground. 8. After finding a new bottle, Manny will add it to his display case. 10. Edit the following paragraph to correct unnecessary shifts in verb tense. The first sentence in the paragraph is correct. 1. Manny collects antique bottles. 2. He buys bottles if he likes them, but he prefers to find them in the ground. 3. He will find bottles everywhere. 4. However, he has the best luck at construction sites on old farmland. 5. Often, bottles appeared on the surface after a good rain. 6. He will use special tools for excavating bottles, including a set of brushes. 7. He did not want to break the bottles as he removed them from the ground. 8. After finding a new bottle, Manny will add it to his display case. 11. Edit the following paragraph to correct unnecessary shifts in verb tense. The first sentence in the paragraph is correct. 1. Manny collects antique bottles. 2. He buys bottles if he likes them, but he prefers to find them in the ground. 3. He finds bottles everywhere. 4. However, he has the best luck at construction sites on old farmland. 5. Often, bottles appeared on the surface after a good rain. 6. He will use special tools for excavating bottles, including a set of brushes. 7. He did not want to break the bottles as he removed them from the ground. 8. After finding a new bottle, Manny will add it to his display case. 12. Edit the following paragraph to correct unnecessary shifts in verb tense. The first sentence in the paragraph is correct. 1. Manny collects antique bottles. 2. He buys bottles if he likes them, but he prefers to find them in the ground. 3. He finds bottles everywhere. 4. However, he has the best luck at construction sites on old farmland. 5. Often, bottles appear on the surface after a good rain. 6. He will use special tools for excavating bottles, including a set of brushes. 7. He did not want to break the bottles as he removed them from the ground. 8. After finding a new bottle, Manny will add it to his display case. 13. Edit the following paragraph to correct unnecessary shifts in verb tense. The first sentence in the paragraph is correct. 1. Manny collects antique bottles. 2. He buys bottles if he likes them, but he prefers to find them in the ground. 3. He finds bottles everywhere. 4. However, he has the best luck at construction sites on old farmland. 5. Often, bottles appear on the surface after a good rain. 6. He uses special tools for excavating bottles, including a set of brushes. 7. He did not want to break the bottles as he removed them from the ground. 8. After finding a new bottle, Manny will add it to his display case. 14. Edit the following paragraph to correct unnecessary shifts in verb tense. The first sentence in the paragraph is correct. 1. Manny collects antique bottles. 2. He buys bottles if he likes them, but he prefers to find them in the ground. 3. He finds bottles everywhere. 4. However, he has the best luck at construction sites on old farmland. 5. Often, bottles appear on the surface after a good rain. 6. He uses special tools for excavating bottles, including a set of brushes. 7. He does not want to break the bottles as he removed them from the ground. 8. After finding a new bottle, Manny will add it to his display case. 15. Edit the following paragraph to correct unnecessary shifts in verb tense. The first sentence in the paragraph is correct. 1. Manny collects antique bottles. 2. He buys bottles if he likes them, but he prefers to find them in the ground. 3. He finds bottles everywhere. 4. However, he has the best luck at construction sites on old farmland. 5. Often, bottles appear on the surface after a good rain. 6. He uses special tools for excavating bottles, including a set of brushes. 7. He does not want to break the bottles as he removes them from the ground. 8. After finding a new bottle, Manny adds it to his display case. 16. Edit the following paragraph to correct unnecessary shifts in verb tense. The first sentence in the paragraph is correct. 1. Manny collects antique bottles. 2. He buys bottles if he likes them, but he prefers to find them in the ground. 3. He finds bottles everywhere. 4. However, he has the best luck at construction sites on old farmland. 5. Often, bottles appear on the surface after a good rain. 6. He uses special tools for excavating bottles, including a set of brushes. 7. He does not want to break the bottles as he removes them from the ground. 8. After finding a new bottle, Manny adds it to his display case. 17. Irregular verbs are verbs whose past tense and past participles do not end in ed but are formed in a variety of other ways. As a result, they are often misused or misspelled. Review the forms of irregular verbs so you wont make errors. 18. Verb Past Tense Past Participle be was, were been begin began begun catch caught caught choose chose chosen come came come do did done drink drank drunk eat ate eaten feel felt felt fly flew flown get got got, gotten go went gone leave left left ride rode ridden seen saw seen 19. Use your iClicker to choose a verb for each sentence. 20. A. keeped B. kept C. keept D. kepped E. kepted 21. A. singed B. sanged C. sang D. sung E. sunged 22. A. worried B. worryed C. worryied D. worryd E. worred 23. A. looked B. lookt C. loked D. lookied E. lookd 24. A. teached B. teacht C. taught D. taughted E. teachered 25. A. sinked B. sunk C. sunked D. sanked E. sank 26. A. drawed B. drew C. drawn D. drewed E. drawned 27. A. drived B. drove C. droved D. driven E. drivened 28. A. talked B. talken C. telk D. talkt E. told 29. A. choosed B. choosen C. chosen D. chose E. chosened 30. A complete sentence contains a subject and a verb. The subject tells who or what is doing something or being something, and the verb expresses the action or links the subject to the rest of the sentence. To maintain subject-verb agreement, a singular subject must have a singular verb form and a plural subject must have a plural verb form. 31. A singular subject consists of one thing. the student A singular verb form in the present tense usually ends in s. Studies The student studies for the test. 32. A plural subject consists of more than one thing. the students A plural verb form in the present tense generally does not end in s. study The students study for the test. 33. To check for subject-verb agreement, you must first identify the subject of the sentence. Remember that prepositions and other words sometimes occur between the subject and verb. Once you identify the subject, you can add the correct verb form. INCORRECT Elaine go to the amusement park. CORRECT Elaine goes to the amusement park. 34. To check for subject-verb agreement, you must first identify the subject of the sentence. Remember that prepositions and other words sometimes occur between the subject and verb. Once you identify the subject, you can add the correct verb form. INCORRECT The cars swerves to avoid hitting the fence. CORRECT The cars swerve to avoid hitting the fence. 35. Go through this quickly as a class! 36. A.costs B. cost 37. A.competes B. compete 38. A.sticks B. stick 39. A.offers B. offer 40. A.works B. work 41. A.remains B. remain 42. A.sees B. see 43. A.drives B. drive 44. A.attends B. attend 45. A.is B. are 46. To determine correct subject-verb agreement, be sure that you have correctly identified the subject. Watch out for subject pretenders such as prepositional phrases. INCORRECT The bowl of cookies are on the table. CORRECT The bowl of cookies is on the table. 47. Go through this quickly as a class! 48. A.sticks B. stick 49. A.needs B. need 50. A.looks B. look 51. A.is B. are 52. A.has B. have 53. A.is B. are 54. A.becomes B. become 55. A.eats B. eat 56. Sometimes the subject of a sentence is an indefinite pronoun. Here are some singular indefinite pronouns that take singular verb forms. anybody everyone nothing anyone everything somebody anything nobody someone each no one something everybody 57. INCORRECT Each of us need to pay five dollars. CORRECT Each of us needs to pay five dollars. 58. INCORRECT Anyone know the answer. CORRECT Anyone knows the answer. 59. INCORRECT Everybody go to the movies on Friday night. CORRECT Everybody goes to the movies on Friday night. 60. Remember that singular subjects take singular verb forms, and plural subjects take plural verb forms. Be sure that you have correctly identified the subject. Watch out for subject pretenders, such as prepositional phrases. Indefinite pronouns such as everyone, anyone, something, and no one are singular and take singular verb forms. 61. A.is B. are 62. A.parks B. park 63. A.plays B. play 64. A.has B. have 65. A.makes B. make 66. A.speaks B. speak 67. A.does B. do 68. A.uses B. use 69. A.leaves B. leave 70. A.requires B. require 71. Looking at Texts from a Readers Point of View 72. Objective feedback Seeing someones text from your own perspective Explaining to them how you see it Being kind, yet honest, in the process From Purdue OWL: Peer Review Presentation (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/r esource/712/1/) 73. Who is the best person to review your writing? Peers because they probably think like you Instructors because they know what they hope to teach you Friends because they can catch mistakes you do not see Tutors in the Porterville College lab or the Writing Mentors because they are trained to work with writing needs From Purdue OWL: Peer Review Presentation (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/r esource/712/1/) 74. When does Peer Review work best? When you need overall feedback How does it sound? What do you think? Does it make sense? From Purdue OWL: Peer Review Presentation (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/r esource/712/1/) 75. Why does peer review work? We see our writing through another person We see how other students think and write We see others writing strengths and weaknesses We see new ideas and new ways of explaining ideas We learn to look at our own writing in a different way From Purdue OWL: Peer Review Presentation (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/r esource/712/1/) 76. Ways you can respond as a helpful reader: If you get confused or lost Mark in the text where you are confused Ask the writer to explain his or her ideas Ask the writer to explain his or her main point Ask the writer to fill in the blanks: My purpose in this paper is ______________. From Purdue OWL: Peer Review Presentation (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/r esource/712/1/) 77. Ways you can respond as a helpful reader: If you cannot see the point: Ask the writer So what? questions. In other words, ask the writer What does this sentence have to do with your main point? What does this point have to do with this paragraph? What does this paragraph have to do with the paper? Playing devils advocate Counter the writers stance or thesis Bring up other perspectives Ask the writer why and how questions Offer more examples and details to the writer Leave the final decisions to the writer From Purdue OWL: Peer Review Presentation (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/r esource/712/1/) 78. Read your paragraph aloud. You are allowed to stop and write all over your paper. The rest of the group is not allowed to comment whatsoever (even after you are finished). Everyone reads aloud first. Decide which color highlighter will represent you in the group. Decide as a group how much time you have for each paragraph. Remember, you will need time at the end to discuss. Pass your paragraph and peer review sheet to the left. Peer review the essay in front of you concentrating on content, not surface errors. Highlight your comments in your color. Pretend the author of the paragraph is nowhere near you. All comments/questions/critiques should be written. Fill in the Editor #1 section of the peer review sheet. Highlight your name in your color. Pass left again and repeat steps four and five using the appropriate editor section. Repeat step six. Review the comments on your paragraph and your peer review sheet. Make a note of any questions you have. Take turns being in the mush pot of your groups for a couple of minutes and discuss each paragraph. 79. Give specific, honest feedback You can earn up to three extra credit points based on your feedback! Write everything downno talking to the author! 80. A. Going over Quiz #1 B. Verb Tense C. Irregular Verbs D. Subject/Verb Agreement E. What Is Peer Review? 81. A. Going over Quiz #1 B. Verb Tense C. Irregular Verbs D. Subject/Verb Agreement E. What Is Peer Review? 82. Take a revised copy of Essay #1 to the writing mentors or an instructor in the Learning Center Remember to post to the discussion by Thursday and respond to at least two students by Sunday Post a picture of yourself to Moodle (try to post a picture of just you or where you are obvious) 83. Meet in Computer Commons A after the break. There will be a sign-in sheet and I will remove it when the break is over.