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Grammar Presentation Grading Criteria
A presentation on one grammatical error of your choice. You may use your grammar handbook and grammar websites (do a Google search on your error) for explanations and examples of your error. Evaluated on four criteria, worth 25% each:
(1) time limit (5 to 8 minutes for ONE error, eight to sixteen minutes for TWO errors)
(2) use of visual aid (do NOT write on board),
(3) content (explain clearly by:
(a) defining the error/explain correct grammatical procedure
(b) giving (at least three) examples of error and sub-errors in sentences and
(c) correcting each of the erroneous sentences, and finally
(4) presentation: entertaining and humorous (involve audience - quiz, prizes, visual, etc.)
Grammar Presentation Topics Sign-up
Sign up for one of the following common grammar errors. See your Troyka grammar handbook for information on it:
Sentence Structure Errors
Run-Ons; Comma Splices
Fragments
Mixed Sentences: Faulty Predication
Mixed Sentences: Mixed Constructions
Parallelism
Misplaced Modifiers and Dangling Modifiers
Subject Verb Agreement Errors
S-V Agreement: 3rd singular verb with "s"
S-V Agreement: Words between Subject and Verb
S-V Agreement: "and" and "or" in multiple item subjects
S-V Agreement: Collective nouns, Amounts, Linking verbs, Titles
Verb Shifts: Tense
Pronoun Errors
Pronoun Shifts: Number (Singular "Their")
Agreement: "Who," "which," and "that"
Pronoun-Antecedent agreement: Indefinite pronouns, vague pronouns
Pronoun case: "who" or "whom?"
Pronoun case after "than" or "as," after "-ing"
Punctuation Errors
Semi-Colons, Colons, and Commas
Quotation Marks and Apostrophes
Dashes, Parentheses, Ellipses
Style Errors
Style: Conciseness, wordiness, repetition
Exact words
Cliches
Showing relationship: Subordination, coordination
Here is your grammar presentation evaluation sheet; print this out and present to professor at the time of your presentation:
Grammar Presentation Evaluation Sheet
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