All ten DOL Sentences are due at the end of each week. This assignment is a test grade. _______________________________ DOL Tests are scored: 1 error = B (85%) 2 errors = C (75%) 3 errors = D (65%) 4 or more errors = F (59%) _______________________________ Guidelines for DOL Week 23: This Week's Spelling Rule: More forms of the prefix ad- attracted (4), attempted (8), acquire (9), attacked (EQ)
Capitalization: Proper nouns: people and animals (3); places (1, 2, 5, 7, 8) organizations, religions, languages, nationalities (EQ); regions (4, 9) First words: in quotations(10)
Punctuation: Commas: in dates (3); in addresses (2); for items in a series (5, 7); with coordinating conjunctions (6, EQ); with appositives (4) Quotation marks: with direct quotations (10) Semicolons: in compound sentences (10) Grammar: Plurals: irregular plurals (8) Pronoun case: of direct objects (4) Pronouns: possessives vs. contractions (EQ) Run-on sentences: (10) Agreement: of subjects and verbs (1); with intervening prepositional phrases (9, EQ) Verb tense: regular past tense (2, 6); irregular past tense (7, EQ) Articles: the vs. a vs. an (1) Adjectives: them vs. those (9) _______________________________