Progressive Verb tenses
Modal Auxiliaries
Sentence Fragments
Run-on Sentences
Prepositions
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What is a Progressive Verb tense?
progressive verb tense forms often implies a process
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What is a Modal Auxiliaries
What is a Modal Auxiliaries?A verb characteristically used with other verbs to express mood or tense.
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What is a sentence fragment?
What is a sentence fragment?a sentence fragment is an incomplete part of a sentence that is written as if it were a complete sentence.
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What is a run-on sentence?
Is a sentence that consist of 2 or more sentences written as though they were a single sentence.
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What is a preposition?
It links a noun to another word/ is a word that shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other words in a sentence.
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True or False: Is skiing an example of a past tense progressive verb tense in the following sentence?/ Michael and Lulu are SKIING far too fast toward the cliff.
False
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What is another name more commonly used for modal auxiliaries?
Helping Verbs
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True or False: Ghost towns usually around deserted mines and oil fields./ is a sentence fragment.
True
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True or False, this is a run on sentence. Most ghost towns are in ruins, some have been restored to their regular conditions, and are in the state of New Mexico, these are in the Southwest Corner.
True
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What is an example of a preposition?
to, at, after, or, but, beneath, beyond, by, down, during, from, near, over, past, through, though, toward, until, up, with, without.
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How many different types of progressive verb tenses are there, and name then?
Three, past, present, and future
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What are some examples of a modal auxiliaries?
be, am, is, are, was, were, been, being, do, does, and did
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A sentence fragment is usually missing a few things that a complete sentence has, what are they?
A sentence fragment is usually missing a subject, predicate, or both
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How can a run-on sentence be prevented if you want to combine a few thoughts in one sentence?
You can prevent a run-on sentence by using commas and conjunctions to separate ideas in a sentence.
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What is the preposition in the following sentence? The robot is beside the spacecraft?
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