Sentence fragments exercises

1.       C

2.       F.(The second part is a dependent adeverb clause of result)

3.       C

4.       F.(The first is a dependent, it’s a dependent adverb clause)

5.       C

6.       C

7.       F(Second part is a dependent adverb clause of concession)

8.       F(Second part is a dependent adverb clause of purpose)

9.       F(Second part is a dependent adverb clause)

10.   C

11.   F(First part is a present participle)

12.   F(Second part is a dependent adverb clause of time)

13.   F.(First part is a dependent adverb clause of concession)

14.   C

15.   F

16.   F(lacks a predicate)

Results :  15/16

Run-ons, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences

1.       He enjoys walking through the countryside and often goes backpacking on his vacations.

2.       He often watched TV when there were only reruns on, but she preferred to read instead.

3.       They weren’t dangerous criminals; they were detectives in disguise.

4.       I didn’t know which job I wanted, because I was too confused to decide.

Results 4/4


Subject and Verb Agreement

1.       Are

2.       Is

3.       Are

4.       Is

5.       Don’t

6.       Doesn’t

7.       Is

8.       Lives

9.       Takes

10.   Want

11.   Is

12.   is

13.   knows

14.   Is

15.   Is

16.   Is

17.   Are

18.   Are

19.   Were

20.   Debates

21.   Lead

22.   Greet

23.   Are

(22/23)


Eliminating Wordiness

 

1.       Although Bradley Hall is regularly populated by students, close study of the building is seldom undertaken by them

2.       He dropped out of school because he needed to help support his family.

3.       The bus company’s new schedule will be announced in a few days.

4.       There are many ways a student can meet a foreign student

5.       It is unusual to find someone who hasn’t lied.

6.       People who disobey rules cause trouble.

7.       More than  a thousand students attended a campus rally,five were arrested for disorderly conduct and several others were charged with organizing an unauthorized  public meeting.

8.       Students believe  the most important subjects are the most useful.

9.       In the future,college freshman will realize that  they’ll need an academic  adviser.10.Our company provides opportunities for growth in aerospace technology.

11.Some people believe in capital punishment while others do not.
(8/11)
 Eliminating wordiness 2
1.       Seventy five feet below the cliff, the reefs were barely visible beneath the fog.

2.       Their car is gassed up and ready for a all night drive.

3.       Sometimes Stan runs with Blanche, a good athlete that’s on the track team

4.       The candy Taylor brought back from Europe was unlike American candy and tasted strange.

5.       Government leader claim the creation of new jobs indicate a strong economy, yet forget to mention that these new low wage jobs are replacing better ones.
4/4

Eliminating wordiness part 3
Many People enjoy murder mysteries. These people are not necessarily, murderers nor witness one or solve one. They probably just enjoy murder mysteries because it provides a way for them to escape from the monotonous and boring everyday routine. To these people the murder mystery is a realistic fantasy. It’s realistic because the characters are believable people and not pasteboard figures. It’s also realistic because the hero, the one who solves the mystery, doesn’t do it by haphazard methods or trial and error but by be exercising a high degree of reason and skill. It is absolutely essential that that those who enjoy murder mysteries have an admiration for the faculty of logic.

Murder mysteries are also fantasies. The people who read such books play a game in which certain human emotion is suspended. Pity, for example is one such human emotion. If a reader were to stop and feel pity for every victim killed ,that person would not enjoy reading a murder mystery. A devoted reader of the murder mystery however keeps in mind that the goal, which is to arrive to a conclusion using logic  the mystery to a conclusion with the use of logic and observation Whodunits hopefully hide the readers from the horrors of real life.
Prepositions

• (20/20

Last week,I read the article ""A Collegiette's Classification of UPR Men"and a counter part on women's fashion and both articles got negative feedback .You may ask why?And in all honesty I'd say  although the Collegiette's Classification of UPR Men was relatively well written grammar wise ,you kind of got the impression that the author didn't really know what they were talking about,and that goes for both articles.In my opinion,it was even really funny,but I regress.Anyway, I'm just gonna stick to what I know here,since it's the safest way to go.I'm in the humanities department, in the UPR ,and I'm gonna give you my impression of women's fashion in this department.
 
I'm not a fashion buff,but I know a trend when I see one.In fact, in Puerto Rico it's hard not to spot a trend,since everything here is so monkey see,monkey do.The images on the left are a classic example of 90's grunge wear without all the flannel and scrunchies.The trend du jour in Huma,being a complete 90's fashion revival.Flower patterns,Doc Martens,denim jackets are back.Now I'd read online that "they have the worst wardrobe, and the worst hair stylist in Earth." and the only thing I'd have to say about that is that although you might not like it 90's fashion,is back with a vengeance. Which means Huma girls are in.Fashion goes in cycles of 20 years.In this case,maybe it's because they felt like they missed out on the trends or because they were to small to pick their clothes for them.The children of the 90's are bringing back the styles they admired as kids and they're doing it even better.Love it or hate it fashion dictates it now."


El tea or the theater is the heart of the humanities department.It is literally right smack in the middle of the department.Stoners,skaters,drama kings and queens,artists,geeks and freaks all congregate there.It's an impromptu runway, a veritable fashion circus.And there always gonna be critics,but cést la vie.You don't have to love it, but if there is one thing you can notice,is that it you can tell it's the department that dedicates itself to self expression.

So I was asked to post some info on my favorite musicians,but asking an aspiring musician what their favorite is artists is pretty much impossible.So because I don't want to drown you with a plethora of bands and solo artists I only pick the three most influential artist I'm listening to right now.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is,does the man project and does he have ideas- Miles Davis

It's hard to explain why Miles is so amazing,when many writers and musical journalists much better than I have already paid homage to the late and great trumpeter.Miles was a visionary,he was timeless,but most of all he was cool.Cool being  the essence of what's happening next of what's happening now and what was before and manifesting that into something almost tangible,not within grasp and innovative.(I heard The Birth of Cool album when I was 8.It blew my mind).He was uncompromising ,arrogant and creative and whatever he played got attention.He played with little to no vibrato,and as a composer and as a player he knew how to give music texture.Listening to Miles at an early age kind of changed my mind about jazz.My parents used to listen to a radio station called WJJZ106.1 and it was a smooth jazz radio station for the most part.I used to call smooth jazz sleepy music,it was pleasantly boring.Now I feel like listening to smooth jazz is like drinking red wine from the fridge,it loses it's texture and body and isn't as pleasurable to drink.Miles was one of many artist that opened the doors for me as a music enthusiast and aspiring musician to take a good look at the wide spectrum of diversity that jazz music has to offer.The Birth of Cool,Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew are so different.They're are really great in their own way.Miles is always relevant ,good music always is.It knows no competition and if there was ever anything anyone could learn from Miles it's how to be daring.No one, who was ever considered cool ,accomplished it by staying safe.Miles didn't care about other people's opinion,he was arrogant in his work .It's exactly that kind of attitude that makes you stick out for better or for worse.In Miles case he was a force to be reckoned with.

There is a certain delicacy in not pretending. So I can be like badmouthing the entire freaking world, telling them the truth, my truth or whatever, in their faces - and you know man It’d be fine…it’d all be alright because even though there is no sophistication or class in cursing, there is truth in being able to defend your own truth. So they’d probably be like “Winehouse is a huge mouthed wannabe diva” but I’d never let it hit me through the head or heart. I don’t use pretty words for the sake of using pretty words so I can serve them beautifully to undeserving narrow-minded idiots. I ain’t ever doing that. - Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse was an incredibly talented singer and songwriter.Her contralto voice complimented the rawness of her lyrics.I admire Amy because as a musician,she wasn't afraid to be herself.She created no larger than life Diva persona nor did she try to behave like the girl next door.She was merely a woman ,albeit a destructive one.Pride,lust,dysfunctional love,self destruction,addiction and anger are among the mayor themes of her songs and as the majority of her song are autobiographical we can deduce easily that they were also mayor themes in her personal life.Amy Winehouse's music is notable for her use of jazz and  do wop and motownish influences which contrast with her lyrics.This said, it breaks away from the pathetic fallacy commonly encountered in literature and music,the music that accompanys the lyrics are not always a reflection of one another.Thus ,I've always perceived that Amy knew that life like her music is indifferent to one's personal plights.I guess you could say that Amy kept it real.Her music was deeply visceral and that,to me,is what makes her so special.

"Aquellas sombras del camino azul dónde están?Yo las comparo con cipreses que vi solo en sueños,y las muñecas tan sangrantes están de llorar.Yo te amo tanto que no puedo despertarme sin amar.-Pescado Rabioso
I can't stress how much I love Pescado Rabioso.Their front man is none other than Luis Alberto Spinetta a multifaceted vsionarysinger/songwritting genius(No I'm not exaggerating.).Pescado Rabioso is an Argentian blue/hard rock band that existed in the early 70's.Their fame though short lived (the band broke up after two and a half years leaving their last album under their name be produced and performed solely by their frontman Spinetta)left their mark not only in the latin rock scene but all over. Pescado 2 was ranked  number 19 in Rolling Stones best rock albums of all time.Their sound is a interesting mix of blues,hard rock and experimental rock.Each of their albums has their own personality.When I listen to their music I feel like I'm hearing an auditory equivalent of a fusion between Salvador Dalí and Van Gogh.The imagery in their lyrics are surreal and colorful.It's like listening to an artistic masterpiece.It's one of kind ,but more over it's just plain beautiful.

"I see something in animals that I don't see in humans. They have a focus and energy that humans don't have. They just want to live. They aren't trying to impress anyone. They aren't trying to hurt anyone for no reason. Even the rat you see in the subway-- his only thought is finding the food he needs to survive. Animals only want to live. It's humans that demand more than they need." - Anonymous


I love animals.All animals and especially have a soft spot for domestic animals.The first picture on the top left corner is a dog showing signs of being frightened.When dogs show the whites of their eyes while looking sideways it means they're scared,the last picture on the bottom is a box of abandoned puppies and the one right below this post is an abandoned cat. I've witnessed all three of these scenarios as I'm sure most people in Puerto Rico have. I knew when I moved to Puerto Rico, that they're definitely was a problem with stray animals,almost immediately.I attended elementary school in Santurce, where lots of strays would hang around in hopes of being thrown a morsel during lunchtime.In my second year of college, on my way to San German,where I was studying at the time, I witnessed a man at the shoulder of the expressway pull out a box  of puppies and leave them there where they surely would wander and die.As for the cat ,well I had some neighbors who abandoned their cat,when they saw she was pregnant they gave her shelter in their home.She birthed the kittens in my house.They took the kittens away from me ,who'd already found them a home,  and left the cat and one of her kittens on the street.My neighbors  moved away shortly afterwards.I adopted both of thecat who was herself just a kitten and her offspring.In a time wear domestic violence ,homicides,drug dealers gone awry take over the news it's important no to forget that  all walks of life are at risk and we must protect ourselves as well as those who can not.That said if I had an organization it would be an organization that would assure the security and care of domestic animals.

My organization would mainly concern itself with lobbying for legislation to prevent the abandonment of animals. Puerto Rico there are many amendments in the  law   that protects animals or "Ley 154" but it's obvious that these laws are not put into use or just aren't as effective as they need be.In the United States the animal must be fixed,you have to pay and have special permissions to be able to legally breed your pet.In some states they are fitted with micro chips that allow the owner to know where they are when they''re lost and if the animal has strayed and found by the police or the correspondent official in this case the owner is fined.I'm sure people in Puerto Rico would more careful if such laws were put in place.My organization would be comprised of lobbyist activist and everyday people.And like any other organizations would sustain their financing through donations. Puerto Rico has an honest need for this kind of organization.My organization would try and educate people and help them realize that animals aren't commodities,they're living beings and that they depend on humans for their welfare.