1. To Do Today EOC Practice Test Redo!
Answer the questions ON YOUR OWN PAPER.
DO NOT write on the test packet.
Turn your answers in immediately upon completion.

2. To Do Today Grammar Review Test Corrections
Finish Compare/ Contrast (for those who didn’t finish yesterday!)

3. http://www.thepunctu ationguide.com/colon .html
When to Use a Colon
ationguide.com/colon .html

4. When To Use a Semicolon
uationguide.com/se micolon.html

5. When To Use a Hyphen
uationguide.com/hy phen.html

6. Important Tone Words Accusatory: charging of wrong doing
Bitter: exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief
Critical: finding fault
Earnest: intense, a sincere state of mind
Intimate: very familiar
Matter-of-fact: accepting of conditions; not fanciful or emotional
Optimistic: hopeful, cheerful
Reverent: treating a subject with honor and respect
Reflective: illustrating innermost thoughts and emotions
Sarcastic: sneering, caustic
Sincere: without deceit or pretense; genuine
Solemn: deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection

7. Quick Rules for PN/Ant Agreement

8. Commas & Interrupting Phrases

9. Parallel Structure

10. Now What?
Now that we have reviewed a few grammar concepts, you are going to have a chance to correct some work from last week.
As you make corrections, feel free to ask your TEACHER if you have any questions at all.
Remember that your neighbor is NOT your teacher!
Turn your paper in at Mrs. Thomas’s desk as soon as you are finished!
DO YOUR BEST!