The Conventions of English PRACTICE ONE

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Spelling, the correct way to arrange letters in a word, is not important once you get out of high school.

Grammar and Usage, how words are used in a language to communicate effectively, are important in order to get an author’s point across.

_____________________________ falls under the rules of proper punctuation, and has five times it needs to be used, usually involving the connection of words.

What type of word is their/there?

All sentences must have what to be considered a sentence?

A homonym, the root word of longer words, can be very confusing if one doesn’t know the meaning of how the word is spelled.

What changes, if any, need to be made to the following sentence? Ms. Reece asked the class to go over their.

Reference sources, books in which one can look up the correct rules of our language, are only for people who are not smart and should rarely be used.