Today, we started with a discussion about one of the questions on the exam about 15 common errors. This one addressed the following sentence:
Every one of the members of the basketball team are there.
We discussed what is meant by restrictive qualifiers and the "to be" verbs.
I then instructed you to write a five minute summary on the short story they were to read for this weekend ("The Painted Door" by Sinclair Ross).
I also wrote the summary and have posted it below (unedited) so you can look at it as a reference to the first paragraph of an essay.
"The Painted Door" Summary
A number of you have yet to finish the reading, so I gave you this remainder to do so. If you were finished, the time should have been used to read your independent novel.
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