Thursday, March 5, 2009

The Colon: Zarmina, Linda, Molly, Sherry

Put your examples here. Each student makes one comment before next Wednesday's class.
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6 comments:

LINDA LIU said...

Here are the two examples of using colon from Brad’s essay:
1, the most important subject : English
2,My bridge partner said it this way: “English is the most important subject in school.”
The first colon is used to introduce lists, the second one is used before a long quotation. My examples are in the following:
1,Brad challenged our students in this way: “Are you ready for hard work?”( before a quotation)
2,I can learn a lot from English 11 course: grammar, ideas, style.(introduce lists)

March 8, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Brad said...

Hi Linda,

I'd forgotten I'd done that! In your second example, you might add a comma before "style" but it works ok as it is.

March 8, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Zarmina said...

Example taken from the Yahoo News.
In this sample, the colon is used to introduce lists.

When will this wretched economy bottom out? The recession is already in its 15th month, making it longer than all but two downturns since World War II. For now, everything seems to be getting worse: The Dow is in free fall, jobs are vanishing every day, and one in eight American homeowners is in foreclosure or behind on payments.

Here is my example.

My brothers speak different languages: Dari, Pashto, English, Urdu and Panjabi

March 9, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Brad said...

It would be fun to rewrite the sentence of Zarmina's from Yahoo in a more similar manner.

Here's my version:

Right now, every English student is struggling with acquiring new and complex skills: The assignments are challenging, homework is assigned nearly every day, and one in ten students has serious difficulties with written grammar.

March 9, 2009 at 12:41 PM
molly said...

Example taken from “Awake” magazine.


According to Richard Ryan, a professor of psychology in United States, the more people seek satisfaction in material things, the less they find it there. The Bible writer Solomon puts it this way: “The man who loves money can never have enough, and the man who is in love with great wealth enjoys no return from it”


This is my example.

The situation might be compared this way: the itch produced by a mosquito bite-the more you scratch it, the more it itches, until it becomes an open sore.

March 9, 2009 at 6:14 PM
sherry said...

This example takes from news paper “The Record”:

Three feasible options came out of the workshops: build a middle school at Lord Kelvin, then either replace Kelvin on the high school site at the corner of Eighth Street and Eighth Avenue or expand capacity at the surrounding elementary schools, or build a middle school on the John Robson Elementary site and replace Robson at Saint Mary’s.

This is my example:

The story’s setting: raining and dark weather was like the wife’s mood: sadness and loneliness.

March 11, 2009 at 9:16 AM

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