Blog 9

First off, do the Oregon Ducks really need another football uniform combination? [Rhetorical Question] Although the Ducks are ranked and sponsored by Nike and have some of the nicest facilities in the country, the pink uniforms on Saturday night seemed to be too much. [Simple sentence with compounded verbs connected with ands] However, I do believe wearing pink was for the good cause of breast cancer awareness. [“However” used in a correctly punctuated sentence] Though the Ducks were supporting breast cancer, they stole the concept from the NFL-and pulled it off with a twenty-four-point win. [Dash to emphasize the last element of a sentence] The twenty-four-point win for the Ducks may seem like a blow out to many, but would it be if you were comparing it to other point margin wins in the past? [Real question and a long sentence of 30+ words followed by a short sentence] To me, not so much.

With all of these ideas in mind, the long trip along with all the money spent was more than worth it when comparing to the alternative of sitting at home. [One sentence paragraph and using than].

Blog 8

This weekend was more than fun for me. Dad’s weekend, two days that usually include the student’s dad in activities, consisted of laying low and enjoying the events that WSU athletics had provided for us [Appositive punctuated with commas]. Although the football game was the highlight of our weekend, my Dad and brothers that attended were staying in our fifth wheel in the parking lot of Walmart. The store Walmart (Redneck’s Paradise according to my roommate) seemed to be the place to be after my brothers and I realized there were close to seventy other campers and RVs [Appositive punctuated with parentheses]. Although my friends and I seem to identify Walmart as the place to go to find some wacky people, it made my family’s weekend full of fun and free entertainment in the parking lot. The parking lot, filled with campers and tailgaters, seemed to get less fun as this Sunday afternoon started to loom on [Past participle]. As the day loomed on, and trailers started to pull out from Walmart, I realized that my dad’s weekend with my family was nearly over. What I did to remove this realization was very fun for my nine-year-old brother, play catch with the football. Even though this was fun and games for most of the time, being the oldest of three younger brothers means that some kind of argument will arise. For example, I had to settle an argument of who can throw the best kind of spiral. The quickest and best throws - the ones that create the nice tight spiral - were not easy for my nine-year-old brother, Mac, who was eager to learn how to throw the football so good [Appositive punctuated with dashes AND adjectives out of order]. Near the end of all the food we ate, the football we watched, and the games we played, it was time for my family to go home. Although most people love the location of small town Pullman, my family dreads that it is nearly a six-hour drive away. Once the fifth wheel was all packed up and we all said our goodbyes, my family was off towards the place that I call home, Vancouver, Washington; home to many of the Westside cougars!  [Appositive punctuated with a colon].