scrap it up, baby

On Monday I missed class because I was driving home from Western Washington (Saturday was my birthday). However, it looks like we went over some important stuff: subordination and AAAWWUBBIS? I honestly have no idea what AAAWWUBBIS stands for - which brings me to my question of the week: what does AAAWWUBBIS mean? It sounds like the noise a fog horn would make. Oh well! You guys can teach me now. Anyway, on Wednesday Stephanie and Shannon talked about introductory clauses, and they did a fantastic job. I was really impressed with the way they went about showing us how to point out different introductory clauses. After that, we started working on our scrapbooks. I was really kind of frustrated because we didn't get to spend as much time looking for examples as I wanted to, and I feel that a lot of the people at my table are just as confused as I am when it comes to "breaking the rules" and "errors in print." I'm having a super hard time seperating the two. I mean, there are ones that are just blunt, but a lot of them I feel could go either way. This is something that's been driving me crazy. In addition to that, I'm having a hard time coming up with explainations. I know that there is something wrong with the piece that I pick out, but I can never quite figure out what it is, or how I'm supposed to say it. I looked a lot of my questions up in the Nitty-Gritty book, but everything I'm looking for isn't in there! So basically I'm just a huge ball of frustration right now when it's coming to our scrapbooks, haha. As far as not understanding anything this week, well, I think you can see by my ranting what I'm having a hard time with. So any suggestions you guys have or any ideas circling my problems, please let me know!