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Unit 7: Qualifying Claims, Syntax, and Conventions

Style: Reading

Explain how a writer's clauses, sentence order, punctuation, and italics show how ideas relate, which idea a sentence ranks highest, and what attitude the writer takes.

Topic 7.7 · 16 min read

This lesson comes with the AP English Language and Composition plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Clauses: the part that asserts and the parts that serve
  2. 02Coordination balances; subordination ranks
  3. 03Where the main clause goes
  4. 04Punctuation and design as meaning
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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