Does this subject agree with it's predicate?
"The dog ran down the street"
What is Yes
100
What is a run-on sentence?
A run-on is a sentence in which two or more independent clauses are joined without appropriate punctuation or conjunction.
100
Is this a sentence fragment?
"The woman went up the stairs"
What is Yes
100
What are context clues?
What are hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word
100
Is this a run-on sentence?
"The boy went up the street to his friend's house"
What is no
200
What change needs to be made to this sentence?
"She got a new purse."
What is change got to has
200
What does this sentence need?
"The girl"
What is The verb
200
"The dreary room was full of negative emotions."
Use context clues to determine what dreary means.
What is gloomy, sad
200
How can you make sure your subject and verb agree?
What is make sure they're in the same tense
300
Which change would make this sentence correct?
"The girl go to the store and got some candy"
a) change go to went
b) change got to has
c) change go to goes
What is A
300
Compare a run on sentences to a sentences fragment.
A run-on has two or more clauses joined together incorrectly while a fragment is an incomplete sentence
300
What does a sentence need in order to be a complete sentence?
What is a subject and a verb
300
"The diva was melodramatic about the problem"
Using context clues, what does melodramatic mean?
What is exaggeration of a problem or situation
300
"The whiffler cleared the way for the king. They carried big weapons." What is a whiffler?
What is someone who walks in front of you through a crowd, waving a chain or an axe in order to clear your path
400
What can you do to correct subject-verb agreement?
What is separate into separate sentences, use a conjunction, or take out part of the incorrection
400
"The boy is going to the store to get a new baseball to go to the baseball game"
What change needs to be made?`
What is insert a conjunction between baseball and to
400
Identify which is a sentence fragment and which is the complete sentence.
a)The boy went for a run.
b)At the library
What is A
400
"The girls bibble iced tea. They annoyed the other customers with their noise"
What does bibble mean?
What is to drink often or to eat and/or drink noisily
400
How can you prevent sentence fragments?
What is letting someone review your work
500
Which sentence is incorrect?
a) The woman has a blue purse
b) The boy be on the swing
c) The man has a rifle
d) The girl plays with her doll
What is B
500
What is something a run-on sentence lacks?
What is punctuation and conjunction (both answers are acceptable)
500
What does a complete sentence consist of?
What is a complete subject and a complete predicate
500
"The teenager is pauciloquent. They are very shy and timid"
What does pauciloquent mean?
What is brief in speech; uttering few words
500
"The insane man thought he would commit zoanthropy. He thought he would change soon."
Using context clues, what is zoanthropy?
What is the delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal