Writing Practice Homework: Sentence Demarcation - 6 Weeks

Writing Practice Homework: Sentence Demarcation - 6 Weeks

6 weeks’ worth of homework tasks including one page of learning and one page of related activities

Easy and quick to self-assess in class .

Tasks focus on the following:

Homework 1 – What is a sentence?
Types of sentences
The parts of a sentence
Complete the activities:

1. Find the sentences
2. Distinguish the clause elements

Homework 2 – How simple and compound sentences are structured
Simple sentence
Compound sentence
Complete the activities:

1. Simple or compound?
2. Compound out of simple

Homework 3 – How complex sentences are structured
Complex sentence
Complex sentence with embedded clause
Complete the activities:

1. Simple, compound, or complex?
2. Complex out of simple

Homework 4 – Punctuation to demarcate sentences
The full stop [ . ]
The question mark [ ? ]
The exclamation mark [ ! ]
The semi-colon [ ; ]
The colon [ : ]
Speech marks [“ ”]
Complete the activities:

1. Add punctuation to demarcate the sentences

Homework 5 – Comma Splice and Run-On Sentences
Comma splice
Run-on sentence
How to correct comma splices and run-on sentences
Complete the activities:

1. Correct the punctuation

Homework 6 – Colons and semi-colons
The colon and its functions
The semicolon and its functions
Complete the activities:

1. Put a colon in each of the following sentences
2. Replace the commas with semicolons