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 01: This Week's Spelling Rule: Drop the final silent "e" before adding a suffix that begins with a vowel. Examples: taking, continuing, writing, providing, imagining Capitalization: Proper nouns: places, months, family relations Proper Adjectives: Titles of works: The pronoun "I" First Words: in quotations Punctuation: Commas: in dates; for items in a series; with quotations; with coordinating conjunctions Apostrophes: with possessives Underlining: of titles Question marks: for titles; with questions and exclamations Hyphens: with divided numbers Semicolons: in compound numbers Grammar: Plurals: irregular plurals Pronoun case: before nouns Pronouns: possessives vs. contractions Sentence fragments Run-on sentences Agreement: with compound subjects; with intervening prepositional phrases Verb tense: irregular past tense Articles: "the" vs. "a" or "an" "a" vs. "an" Commonly confused words: their, there, they're Adjectives: them vs. those _______________________________
