Syntax
The person or thing doing something or being described, and usually found at the beginning of the sentence.
What is the subject of the sentence?
There are two main types of these words, and you must have one in every sentence.
What are verbs?
The appropriate punctuation when using a word as a word?
What are quotation marks?
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What are the coordinating conjunctions?
In John's gospel, the disciples did not understand why Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey.
What is tense shift?
In John's gospel, the disciples do not understand why Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey.
A sentence that is missing either a subject or a verb, or that does not express a complete thought.
What is a sentence fragment?
The subject of the sentence will always be this kind of word or phrase?
What is a noun or noun phrase?
In the American style of using quotation marks, periods and commas always go here.
What is inside the quotation marks?
A subject, a verb, and a complete thought.
What are the three key parts of a sentence?
In the first-century AD, Jesus tells the parable of the "Lost Coin."
What is inconsistent historical perspective?
In the first-century AD, Jesus told the parable of the "Lost Coin."
Two complete sentences stuck together without any punctuation.
What is a fused sentence (a run-on sentence)?
Words that join ideas together in ways that show the ideas are equal or that one idea is dependant on another idea.
What are conjunctions?
In this system, semicolons, colons, and question marks go inside quotation marks if they belong to the original quotation, and outside the quotation marks if they belong to the author who is quoting the original material.
What is the American system for quotation marks?
Anywhere a cat can go?
What are spacial prepositions?
Luke's parable, The Prodigal Son, is one of the best known stories in the Bible.
What is incorrect use of italics to title a shorter work?
Luke's parable, "The Prodigal Son," is one of the best known stories in the Bible.
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What is a comma splice?
Words that will make one sentence dependent on another.
What are subordinating conjunctions?
This system uses single quotation marks on the outside and double quotation marks on the inside.
What is the British system?
What are transitive verbs?
You must “never” bring peanuts or peanut butter to an elementary school.
What is the incorrect use of quotation marks for emphasis?
You must never bring peanuts or peanut butter to an elementary school.
Pronouns agree with their antecedents in number, person, and gender.
What is pronoun-antecedent agreement?
Transition words that indicate a relation in meaning between two complete sentences, and must be followed by a comma.
What are conjunctive adverbs?
The appropriate way to indicate foreign terms.
What is italics?
The Hebrew word mashalis often translated using the Greek word parabolé.
Change the tense of the sentence.
What is a trick to find the verb in the sentence?
In the parable Jesus told, the Pharisee brings himself close to God, near the altar, and prays by themselves. He tells of all the good things he did, and that he has done even more than the law requires. On the other hand, the tax collector stands far away and could not look up to heaven while he prays. Desperate, he cried out for mercy. When he tells his story, he uses contrasting pictures: One of a man who believed we have it all, and one of a man who believed we should be ashamed of ourselves.
In the parable Jesus tells, the Pharisee brings himself close to God, near the altar, and prays by himself. He tells God of all the good things he has done, and that he has done even more than the law requires. On the other hand, the tax collector stands far away and cannot lookup to heaven while he prays. Desperate, he cries out for mercy. When he tells his story, Jesus uses contrasting pictures: One of a man who believes he has it all, and one of a man who is ashamed of himself.