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Review: Perfect Tenses, Connectors and Punctuation

Apply recognize perfect tense, identify a conjunction family, identify a word’s sentence job, explain a comma’s job using supplied texts and original responses.

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Unit review questions
1. Time: complete by a future deadline. Connector: and. Highlight: under the board. Comma: Before dawn, we left. Which verb phrase fits the supplied time relationship?
Need a hint?
  • Perfect describes a time relationship, not flawless work.
  • Had is past even when the main participle looks familiar.
2. Time: complete by a future deadline. Connector: and. Highlight: under the board. Comma: Before dawn, we left. Which connector form is supplied?
Need a hint?
  • Either must pair with or in this construction.
  • However is not punctuated exactly like and.
3. Time: complete by a future deadline. Connector: and. Highlight: under the board. Comma: Before dawn, we left. Which job does the highlighted expression perform?
Need a hint?
  • Check function in context.
  • A familiar word may have another job in another sentence.
4. Time: complete by a future deadline. Connector: and. Highlight: under the board. Comma: Before dawn, we left. What does the supplied comma separate?
Need a hint?
  • Jo, please wait directly addresses Jo.
  • Not every spoken pause needs a comma.

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Use the skills in a new task

Make a short complete response demonstrating the four skills in this unit. Write: By yesterday’s bell, Jo had finished the poster. Rewrite for completion before tomorrow’s bell using will have finished. Add a sentence using either/or and one direct-address sentence with a comma. Explain each helper and comma. Longer writing targets in optional extensions can be completed in a later session.

Work on paper or in your own document. Explain the choices you made.

  • Read the stated reference time, select the matching helper and preserve the participle finished.
  • Locate the connector or pair and identify its function before combining sentences.
  • Read the highlighted word in its sentence and identify what it connects, modifies or expresses.
  • Locate what appears on either side of the highlighted comma. Name the structural reason rather than saying pause only.
Compare with a model response

By yesterday’s bell, Jo had finished the poster. By tomorrow’s bell, Jo will have finished the poster. Had and will have establish completion relative to past and future points. Either Jo or Lea will present. Jo, please bring the poster. The first comma follows an introductory phrase; the last sets off direct address. The paired either/or connects choices.

A different response can also meet the criteria. Compare the evidence and reasoning, rather than copying the wording.