DOL Week 17

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 17:

This Week's Spelling Rule:
Words spelled with unstressed syllables:
literature, different, interesting, reference

Capitalization:
Proper nouns: people and animals; days and holidays; months; family relations (3, 5, 10)
Proper adjectives (2)
Titles of works (3, 9)
The pronoun I (7)
First words: in sentences; in quotations (6)
Initials (1)

Punctuation:
End marks: with declaratives (6)
Periods: with initials (1)
Commas: for items in a series (2); with quotations (4); with coordinating conjunctions (4); with appositives (8, 9)
Underlining: of titles (1, 9)
Quotation marks: for titles (3)

Grammar:
Plurals: regular plurals (5)
Pronoun case: before nouns (4)
Pronouns: possessives vs. contractions (7)
Run-on sentences (6)
Agreement: with intervening prepositional phrases (2, 5)
Verb tense: irregular past tense (EQ)
Articles: a vs. an (10)

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