Types of Sentences
Essay Development
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Essay Examples
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What are the basic elements to every sentence?
Subject and Predicate
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What is a thesis?
The main idea of a piece of writing to which all other ideas and details relate.
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What are the 5 senses?
Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, and Touch
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What is the Box Man about?
Solitude
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What is an example?
An example represents a general group or an abstract concept or quality.
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What are the four sentence types?
Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex
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How many methods of development are there?
10 -Narration -Description -Example -Division or Analysis -Classification -Process Analysis -Comparison & Contrast -Definition -Cause & Effect Analysis -Argument & Persuasion
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Free writing is when someone writes for usually ___ to ___ minutes without stopping.
10 to 15 minutes
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What is the Chase about?
A little girl and her friends being chased around Pittsburgh by a man.
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How many generalization examples were mentioned in our PowerPoint?
5
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What is the sentence type of the following sentence? "Tom and Mary play tennis."
Simple Sentence
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Where is the thesis normally found, in the introduction or conclusion paragraph?
Introductory paragraph
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What is tone?
The writers attitude toward his or her subject and audience.
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Where does the Box Man take place?
New York
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True or False: When only using one example, you must treat it briefly.
False
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What is the sentence type of the following sentence? "He stands at the bottom of the cliff while the climber moves up the rock."
Complex Sentence
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What is the conclusion paragraph for
To tie together the elements of the essay and provides a final impression for readers to take away with them.
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What kind of person is the man in the Box Man short story? A. Rich B. Homeless C. Out-going D. Ambitious
Homeless
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What does the homeless man in the Box Man, collect boxes?
To create the scenery of a home in front of a doorway.
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True or False: A clear thesis is crucial.
True
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What does "FANBOYS" stand for?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
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How long should one brainstorm?
10-15 minutes
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Asking another person to read you draft and comment is part of: A. Clarity B. Editing C. Revising D. Drafting
Revising
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What car do the kids hit with the snowball?
A black Buick
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How many examples are in the following paragraph? Because it avoids or shifts responsibility, doublespeak is particularly effective in explaining or at least glossing over accidents. An air force colonel in charge of safety wrote in a letter that rocket boosters weighing more than 300,000 pounds “have an explosive force upon surface impact that is sufficient to exceed the accepted overpressure threshold of physiological damage for exposed personnel.” In English: if a 300,000 pound booster rocket falls on you, you probably won’t survive. In 1985 three American soldiers were killed and sixteen were injured when the first stage of a Pershing II missile they were unloading suddenly ignited. There was no explosion, said Major Michael Griffen, but rather “an unplanned rapid ignition of solid fuel.”
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