Final Exam exemption?

This is a reminder: I will not be in class on September 29th, but I strongly encourage you to come to the classroom and work together to use the class period as a study session. I will deliver worksheets to the classroom that you can use for review purposes.  If you have any questions about the answers, you can email them to me.

We will have a quiz over passive voice and nominalizations on Monday.

FINAL EXAM EXEMPTIONS
If you got a grade of 90 or better on both of the first two quizzes (not the make-ups) and you match up with a student who got a grade of below 70 on either of the first two quizzes, and both of you get a score of 80 or better on the midterm, the student who got a grade of 90 or better on the first two quizzes, can choose to use their quiz average for the final exam score and not take the final exam.

The midterm will be on Monday, October 9th.

If you intend to match up, you must notify me by today--September 29th!

As of 8:00 a.m. on 9/29, only one pair of students has notified me of their intention to match up.

I hope more of you contact me after today's class!
SB

Many forms of Be

Most Common Forms:
Is, Are, Is being, Was, Were, Been (have been), Be (will be)

Present
1st person ("I") singular: am
2nd person singular ("you"), 1st & 3rd person plural ("we" & "they"): are
3rd person singular ("he," "she," "it"): is

Past
1st, 3rd person singular: was
2nd person singular, 1st and 3rd person plural: were

Present participle: being
Past participle: been

Present Perfect:
have been, has been

Past Perfect:
had been

Present progressive:
am being, are being, is being

Past progressive:
was being, were being

Conditional:
would be

Future:
will be

Presentation Dates

Remember:  you are required to rehearse your presentation with me at least one week before you are scheduled to make your in-class presentation.  It is your responsibility to set up a rehearsal time.  The way to do this is to email me a list of days and times that you are available.  The sooner you do this, the better. Generally speaking, I am most available on Tuesdays and Thursdays and MWF after 3:15.

Make sure that your presentation is fully ready at the time of our rehearsal.  If you are under-prepared at the time of our rehearsal, it will negatively affect your grade on this assignment.

A written analysis of your assigned text will be due exactly one week after the date of your in-class presentation.

A fuller description of the assignment requirements will be posted on this website at a later time.

Friday, November 3:  Booher's Rules (Karina and Taylor P.)
Monday, November 6:  Understanding English Grammar (Jared, Ashley, and Dana)
Wednesday, November 8:  The Glamour of Grammar (Amber, Chelsee)
Friday, November 10:  Sin & Syntax (Kelci, Sidney, Sierra, Melissa)
Monday, November 13:  Righting the Mother Tongue (Lauren), Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog (Madison), and Doing Grammar (Taylor)
Wednesday, November 15: The Practical Grammar Handbook for College Writers (Shyanna), Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Maci)
Friday, November 17:  It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences (Ray), Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace (Jill)
Monday, November 20:  The War Against Grammar (Austin); The Best Punctuation Book, Period (Cole) and Painless Grammar (Michael)

The Passive Voice Can Come in Many Tenses

Present Progressive:

You are getting served.

Present:

You get served every morning.

Future:

You will get served tomorrow.

Future progressive:

You will be getting served tomorrow.

Past progressive:

You were getting served.

Present perfect:

You have gotten served.

Past perfect:

You had gotten served before then.

Present perfect progressive:

You have been getting served every day for the past week.

Past perfect progressive:

You had been getting served every day until I showed up.

Conditional

You would get served.

Conditional progressive

You would be getting served.

Perfect conditional

You would have gotten served.

Perfect progressive conditional

You would have been getting served.