Monday, 10/5/15: Acquiesce to the Overwhelming Examples

* Open

• Do this grammar review of spliced (two independent clauses joined with a comma but no coordinator) and fused sentences (a.k.a. run-on; two complete ideas with no comma at all)
• Exercise 3 
• Splice Error: I like to eat all kinds of food, I often use food in my grammar examples.
• Fuse Error: I like to eat all kinds of food I often use food in my grammar examples.   
• Correct: I like to eat all kinds of food; I often use food in my grammar examples.
• Correct: I like to eat all kinds of food, so I often use food in my grammar examples. 
• Incorrect: I like to eat all kinds of food, yet I often use food in my grammar examples. 

Vocabulary: 

• Acquiesce (verb)
• to assent (not ascent), submit, comply silently or without protest
• Latin acquiescere "to become quiet, remain at rest," thus "be satisfied with,"
• from ad- "to" + quiescere "to become quiet"

Examples:

In Film:  Example in Dialogue from The Curse of the Black Pearl (please copy the key line):

Elizabeth: Captain Barbossa, I am here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal.
Barbossa: There are a lot of long words in there, Miss; we’re naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?
Elizabeth: I want you to leave and never come back.
Barbossa: I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request.
Pirates: Ooooooh…
Barbossa: Means “no."
 
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In Poetry: Sea Girls by A. E. Stallings

              for Jason

“Not gulls, girls.” You frown, and you insist—
Between two languages, you work at words
(R’s and L’s, it’s hard to get them right.)
We watch the heavens’ flotsam:  garbage-white
Above the island dump (just out of sight),
Dirty, common, greedy—only birds.
OK, I acquiesce, too tired to banter.

Somehow they’re not the same, though. See, they rise
As though we glimpsed them through a torn disguise—
Spellbound maidens, wild in flight, forsaken—
Some metamorphosis that Ovid missed,
With their pale breasts, their almost human cries.
So maybe it is I who am mistaken;
But you have changed them. You are the enchanter.

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Now please compose your own sentence with an opening prepositional phrase. 

* Review the week

* Journal Review 

* RD College Essay

HW: 1/2 RD College Essay; Outside Reading