1/23/2016

An express train hurtled by. His hat was grabbed by a gust of air and about to escape, he quickly snatched it and put it back onto his head again.

*In this sentence here would be considered a run on sentence. This is because the part written in green and the part written in blue are both independent clauses, which mean they can both be a full sentece on their own. There are two ways you can fix this:

1) Place a period between the two so they become their own seperate sentences. It would then look like this: 

His hat was grabbed by a gust of air and about to escape. He quickly snatched it and put it back onto his head again. 

2) You can place a comma and conjunction between the two independent clauses to connect them and make one sentence. Some conjunctions include: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, as well as so. Once you do that, your sentence should look like this:

His hat was grabbed by a gust of air and about to escape, but he quickly snatched it and put it back onto his head again.

(( You would use "but" for this sentence because his action, snatching the hat, was in contrast to the hat orignally being grabbed by the wind. You could also use "so" because snatching his hat was his reaction to it being snatched by the wind.))

               I hope this was helpful. If you have an questions feel free to message me!                    

Repair of my down jacket

It snowed a lot in Tokyo on Monday. The next day, when I was riding a bicycle on the snowy road, my bicycle slipped and I fell off my bicycle. I was injured and the right wrist part of my favorite down jacket tore. When I took it to a repair shop, the repair cost was same as a new jacket, so I decided to repair it myself. The result of repair was better than I expected.

*Make sure to place "the" before nouns.

  Examples: The dog ran.

                      The girl sang.

*Since conjunctions, like "so", are used to join two independent sentences together, they cannot start a sentence. Instead, place a comma before a conjunction. Then, the sentences can connect properly.

Other conjunctions include: and, but, for, nor, or, as well as yet.

Examples: The dog ran, but the cat ran faster.

                    The girl sang, and the crowd cheered for her.

  If you have any questions, just message me!