Two complete sentences (punctuated as one) with no punctuation between them.
What is a run-on?
100
Marie Antoinette said, “Let them eat cake”!
What is exclamation point goes inside the quotation marks.
100
The little mark that separates letters in an email address like “m‐aggie@tamu.edu.”
What is a hyphen?
100
A part of a sentence used as a full sentence. Yeah, like this.
What is Sentence fragment?
100
Michael Crichton combines scientifical information with enthralling literature in his books.
What is “scientifical” is not a word?
200
Is Bob dead, did something break?
What is a comma splice?
200
Warm and plump, Mary Beth inhaled the long‐awaited hot dog.
What is dangling modifier?
200
The punctuation separating two complete sentences, which is not a period, dash, or colon.
What is a semicolon?
200
The policemen, firemen, and mailmen had gathered to honor fallen heroes.
What is Discriminatory language?
200
Simple, compound, complex, and compound‐complex.
What is types of sentences?
300
One subject, one verb (predicate), and it stands alone.
What is a sentence?
300
My parents bought a house from a man with no inside plumbing.
What is misplaced modifier?
300
It can be used to introduce a long list.
What is a colon?
300
Who did you call last night?
What is Acceptable uses of who; less formal than whom?
300
In spite of its name, it won’t catch spelling errors like “there” for “their.”
What is spell‐check?
400
“Between you and I, this game is hard.”
What is Incorrect pronoun case (objective pronouns—me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them— follow a
preposition); “Between you and me” is the correct form.
400
The dog wants it’s toy.
What is incorrect possessive. “The dog wants its toy” is the right answer.
400
One of three ways to fix a fused sentence
What is a Period, semicolon, or a comma with a coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).
400
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this
faith . . .
What is Parallel structure (rhetorically effective, used for emphasis and drama)?
400
Someone comes to the writing center every hour to get their paper reviewed.
What is Noun‐Pronoun disagreement?
500
One independent clause + one dependent clause
What is a complex sentence?
500
Boy Scouts at the camp can learn cooking, canoeing, swimming, or how to make ropes.
What is the list in not in parallel structure?
500
A punctuation mark often substituted for the colon or comma and is considered less formal.
What is Dash (or Em dash)?
500
To boldly go where no one has gone before.
What is acceptable split infinitive?
500
If we all cooperate together, we will be able to fulfill all of the necessary requirements . . .