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 02: This Week's Spelling Rule: Retaining the final silent "e" when adding a suffix that begins with a consonant. Capitalization: Proper nouns: people and animals, days and holidays, titles of people, family relations. Titles of works First Words: in sentences Punctuation: Commas: with quotations, for items in a series, in direct address, to avoid confusion Semicolons: in compound sentences End marks: with declaratives Periods: with abbreviated titles, with initials Quotation marks: with direct quotations, with divided quotations Grammar: Comparisons: double comparisons Pronoun case: of objects of prepositions Pronouns: order of; possessives vs. contractions Sentence fragments Run-on sentences Agreement: of subjects and verbs; with compound subjects Articles: a vs. an Commonly confused words: to, two, too Prepositions:between vs. among _______________________________
