Grammar Quiz: Emphasis on Middle Branching

Grammar Quiz Tomorrow

Paris Hilton is one of the many reasons we have grammar quizzes.

Tomorrow your quiz will have an emphasis on what we've been learning about middle branching.

Terms you need to know for tomorrow include:

• Appositives
• Noun
• Adjective
• Sentence Structure
• Simple
• Compound
• Complex
• Compound-complex
• Coordinating Conjunction (FANBOYS)
• Subordinating Conjunction (AAAWWUBBIS)
• Active/Passive Voice (bonus point)

It's not good enough just to know what these terms ARE. You must also know what they DO.

By the way (or, as Barney Stinson would say, "Bee Tee Dub"), your quiz is out of 31 points! That's right, 31 points. It almost sounds like a test...but, it's not. It's a quiz.

Appositives Assignment

In class today, I gave you an assignment on appositives and some of the directions were cut off.

Here's what you are supposed to do after you finish page 138.

Write ten (10) statements about The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass using appositives in the middle branch. Here's the catch...

• 3 of the statements need to be compound sentences
• 4 of the statements need to be complex sentences
• 1 of the statements needs to be compound-complex statements.

Only one (1) of the clauses in each sentence needs to have the middle branch appositive.

Remember, the pattern for middle branch is as follows:

Subject , Middle Branch , Predicate.

Another acceptable middle branch is this:

Subject , Pred- , Middle Branch , -icate.

Your middle branch must be in the middle.

I hope this clears up any confusion you may have.