TAS Due Dates

• Answer all questions and do all exercises after the professional examples
• Write your answers by hand on notebook paper
• Start a new piece of notebook paper for each pattern set (i.e. pattern 3 starts on a different piece of paper, then pattern 4 begins on a new piece of paper after 3, and pattern 4a begins on a new piece of paper following 4)
• Where the book asks you to comment on an example or brief passage, you may simply write your answer to the question - it is not necessary to repeat the prompt or write the sample passage
• Where the book asks you to fill in the blank or compose a sentence, you must write the entire sentence from start to finish  

Due 3/16:

PATTERN 1 COMPOUND SENTENCE: SEMICOLON, NO CONJUNCTION- pages 10-11

PATTERN 2 COMPOUND SENTENCE WITH ELLIPTICAL CONSTRUCTION- page 14

PATTERN 3 COMPOUND SENTENCE WITH EXPLANATORY STATEMENT- pages 17-18

PATTERN 4 A SERIES WITHOUT A CONJUNCTION- page 23

PATTERN 4a A SERIES WITH A VARIATION- pages 25-27

Due 3/23

PATTERN 5 A SERIES OF BALANCED PAIRS- pages 29-30

PATTER 6 AN INTRODUCTORY SERIES OF APPOSITIVES- pages 33-34

PATTERN 7 AN INTERNAL SERIES OF APPOSITIVES OR MODIFIERS-pages 36-37

PATTERN 7a A VARIATION: A SINGLE APPOSITIVE OR A PAIR- pages 39-40

PATTERN 8 DEPENDENT CLAUSES IN A PAIR OR IN A SERIES- pages 42-44

Due 3/30

PATTERN 9 REPETITION OF A KEY TERM-pages 49-50

PATTERN 9a A VARIATION: SAME WORD REPEATED IN PARALLEL STRUCTURE-pages 52-53

PATTERN 10 EMPHATIC APPOSITIVE AT END, AFTER A COLON-pages 55-57

Pattern 10a A VARIATION: APPOSITIVE (single or pair or series) AFTER A DASH-pages 59-61

Pattern 11 INTERRUPTING MODIFIER BETWEEN S AND V-pages 64-66

Due 4/13

PATTERN 11a A FULL SENTENCE (statement or question or exclamation) AS INTERRUPTING MODIFIER-pages 68-70

PATTERN 12 INTRODUCTORY OR CONCLUDING PARTICIPLES-pages 73-75

PATTERN 13 A SINGLE MODIFIER OUT OF PLACE FOR EMPHASIS-pages 77-79

PATTERN 14 PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE BEFORE S AND V-pages 81-82

PATTERN 15 OBJECT OR COMPLEMENT BEFORE S AND V-page 84

Due 4/20

PATTERN 15a COMPLETE INVERSION OF NORMAL PATTERN-pages 86-87

PATTERN 16 PAIRED CONSTRUCTIONS-pages 90-92

PATTERN 16a A PAIRED CONSTRUCTION FOR CONTRASTO ONLY-pages 94-95

PATTERN 17 DEPENDENT CLAUSE (in a “sentence slot”) AS SUBJECT OR OBJECT OR COMPLEMENT-pages 98-99

PATTERN 18 ABSOLUTE CONSTRUCTION (noun plus participle) ANYWHERE IN SENTENCE-pages 101-102

Due 4/27

PATTERN 19 THE SHORT, SIMPLE SENTNCE FOR RELIEF OR DRAMATIC EFFECT-page 106-107

PATTERN 20 THE DELIBERATE FRAGMENT-page 110