Pronouns
This type of pronoun, such as "mine" or "theirs," indicates ownership.
Possessive
Identify the participle in the following sentence:
"The police found the stolen car in the alley."
Stolen
When answering a question about a text, you should always do this to show where your information came from.
Cite it.
This crime happens when two or more independent clauses are put together without proper punctuation.
This is the dictionary definition of a word, rather than the "feeling" or "vibe" associated with it.
Denotation
Use this type of pronoun when it is the one performing the action in a sentence
Subject Pronoun
In the sentence "The cracked mirror hung on the wall next to the shelf," what noun does the participle describe?
Mirror
These marks must be placed around any words taken directly from the text.
Quotation Marks
Pronouns must match their antecedents in gender, number, and ______________.
Person
This is the perspective from which a story is told, such as first-person or third-person.
Point of View
This is the error that occurs when a pronoun does not clearly refer to one specific noun.
Vague Pronoun
What is the participle phrase in the following sentence?
Running toward the finish line, the athlete felt a burst of energy.
Running toward the finish line
This is a conclusion (or educated guess) reached by combining what you already know with evidence from the text.
Inference
Proper Noun
This is the central message or "moral" the author wants the reader to take away from a story.
Theme
"This," "that," "these," and "those" belong to this pronoun category because they point out specific things.
Demonstrative Pronouns
True or False? In the sentence "Walking to school, the rain started to fall," the participle phrase is a "dangling modifier" because the rain isn't actually walking.
True
These are the words or phrases around a difficult word that you use to help you figure out its meaning.
Context Clues
This is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.
Dependent (or Subordinate) Clause
Rewrite this sentence and change it to active voice: "The cake was eaten by the dog."
The dog ate the cake.
Pronouns like "everyone" and "somebody", because of how many people they refer to, always have to be paired with what type of verb.
Singular
What type of participle is the word "tired" in the phrase "the tired hikers"?
Past participle
When an author uses facts, statistics, or expert quotes, they are trying to provide evidence for their _________.
Claim
The most common non-action verbs, including "am," "is," "are," "was," and "were" are these types of verbs.
Linking/"Be" Verbs/Forms of "Be"
In this voice, the subject of the sentence is the one performing the action (e.g., "The chef cooked the meal")
Active Voice