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The FANBOYS are these kinds of conjunctions.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
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Besides writing compound sentences, this is another way to join short, choppy sentences.
What is using subordination?
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This is what parallelism in writing means.
What is ensuring that similar parts in a sentence have the same structure and that the parts are balanced?
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This is sentence variety.
What is having different sentence patterns, lengths, and rhythms?
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To discover the spelling, pronunciation, part of speech, or etymology of a word, use this.
What is a dictionary?
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This is the order to follow when using coordinating conjunctions to join two sentences.
What is COMMA in place of the ending punctuation of the first sentence and then the coordinating conjunction?
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Subordinating conjunctions are also called this (according to your text).
What are dependent words?
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As anyone who has written a resume can tell you, parallelism in vital when writing these.
What are lists?
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Rather than starting sentences with a subject, this is one way to make sentences more interesting.
What is starting sentences with adverbs or -ing verbs?
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Words that convey no information or very little information are THIS because they do not create a clear picture for readers.
What are VAGUE and ABSTRACT?
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This punctuation alone can join 2 sentences to create a compound sentence.
What is a semicolon?
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When a subordinating conjunction introduces a clause that ends a sentence, it does not need a comma prededing it unless THIS situation occurs.
What is SHOWING CONTRAST?
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These two words should signal the writer to use parallelism.
What are AND / OR?
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A noun or noun phrase that renames a noun is called this.
What is an appositive?
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This kind of word names something that can be sen, heard, felt, tasted, or smelled.
What is a CONCRETE word?
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To give more informatin about the relationship between 2 sentences you wish to make compound, use this with the semicolon.
What is a conjunctive adverb?
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Subordinating or dependent clauses signal the reader that he/she has encountered THIS type of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
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Certain paired words indicate that the information following them MUST be parallel. Thise words are called THIS.
What are CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS?
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This is a group of words with a subject and verb that describes a noun (use relative pronouns for this).
What is an adjective clause?
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This kind of word names a particular person or quality.
What is a SPECIFIC word?
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Name 5 conjunctive adverbs.
What are ALSO, AS A RESULT, BESIDES, CONSEQUENTLY, FURTHERMORE, HOWEVER, IN ADDITION, IN FACT, INSTEAD, MOREOVER, STILL, THEN, and THEREFORE?
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Although the text ignores relative pronouns, they also signal certain sentence types. These are the 5 relative conjunctions we read about in D2L.
What are WHO, WHOM, WHOSE, THAT, WHICH?
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Besides pairs, lists, and certain paired words, the writer should watch for these specific words when writing comparisons.
What are THAN or AS?
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Writers use commas around information that is unimportant to the meaning of the sentence. This is what that kind of information is called.
What is NON-ESSENTIAL INFORMATION?
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Using too many words - wordiness - does this to a writer's point.
What is WEAKENS the writer's point?
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