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1. Than is used to make comparisons.
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2. Italicizing Titles
Generally, we italicize the titles of things that can stand by themselves. Thus we differentiate between the titles of novels and journals, say, and the titles of poems, short stories, articles, and episodes (for television shows). The titles of these shorter pieces would be surrounded with double quotation marks.
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Transformers, Thundercats, Battle of the Planets, and Voltron sparked a revolution that influenced cartoons to have complex pots and dramatic themes.
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Transformers, Thundercats, Battle of the Planets, and Voltron sparked a revolution that influenced cartoons to have complex pots and dramatic themes.
3. Sentence Fragment
A sentence fragment fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself. It does not contain even one independent clause. There are several reasons why a group of words may seem to act like a sentence but not have the wherewithal to make it as a complete thought.
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Optimus Prime
English: Optimus Prime toy designBad example from the Compare and Contrast Paper:
For example Optimus Prime, the leader of the artificially intelligent Autobots, from Transformers and Voltron, the incredibly high tech space ship, from Voltron.
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Two examples of the use of innovative technology in Japanimation are Optimus Prime, the leader of the artificially intelligent Autobots, from Transformers and Voltron, the incredibly high tech space ship, from Voltron.
4. Split Infinitive Phrase
An infinitive phrase consists of an infinitive -- the root of the verb proceeded by to and any modifiers or complements associated with it. Infinitive phrases can act as adjectives, adverbs, and nouns.
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Corporations force false beliefs on teenagers, the largest recipient of advertisements, to mold them into their own...