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Neptune and Pluto

DOL 16 Guidelines

DOL 16 Day 1

DOL 16 Day 2

DOL 16 Day 3

DOL 16 Day 4

Neptune and Pluto

All ten DOL Sentences are due at the end of each week. This assignment is a test grade.
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DOL Tests are scored:
1 error = B (85%)
2 errors = C (75%)
3 errors = D (65%)
4 or more errors = F (59%)
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Guidelines for DOL Week 16:

This Week's Spelling Rule:
Words ending with the suffix -ory
satisfactory, observatory, exploratory, victory, history

Capitalization:
Proper nouns: people and animals; days and holidays; months; titles of people
Proper adjectives:
First words: in sentences; in quotations

Punctuation:
End marks: with declaratives
Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: in dates; for items in a series; with coordinating conjunctions

Grammar:
Pronoun case: before nouns
Pronouns: possessives vs. contractions
Run-on sentences
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; with intervening prepositional phrases
Verb tense: regular past tense; irregular past tense
Verb forms: helping verbs with past participles
Comparison: superlative degree; double comparison
Articles: a vs. an
Adjectives: them vs. those

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