Punctuation and Sentences
Six commas need inserted into the following sentence. Insert them.
"Say Matt what time is it over there and why does China of all places have a different time zone?"
"Say, Matt, what time is it over there, and why does China, of all places, have a different time zone?"
Etymology is a technique used to help determine the this of a word.
What is origin?
The opening line of an essay, or sometimes the last line of the opening paragraph sums up the contents of the paper and is called this.
What is a thesis or thesis statement?
In MLA in-text citations, this follows the author's name (if the source was found online).
What is paragraph number (par.)?
The first rule of research is:
What is "Consult many sources"
When Something is Written Using Capitals Like This, it is Called This.
What is Title Case?
In the SSCD model, "C" stands for context and "D" stands for dictionary. What, in order, do the two S's stand for?
What are see and say?
In general, each paragraph of an essay should begin with one of these and end with one of these.
What are topic sentence and transition sentence?
In APA citations, this number is used to identify an article with a specific code, abbreviated as DOI.
What is a Digital Object Identifier?
The second rule of research is:
What is "Consult many sources"
The Colon (:) is used only after this, to denote an upcoming list of some sort.
What is an independent clause?
Knowledge of the language of origin of a word can help you determine how to pronounce it. For example, in this language, the letter "T" at the end of a word is silent.
What is French? (Chevrolet, escargot, accoutrement)
While there is no standard or "correct" number given, it is generally accepted that each paragraph of an essay be this many sentences in length.
What is five?
If you find a short story in an anthology you want to use as a source, the anthology is written into the citation. It is correctly called this.
What is a container?
Wikipedia is acceptable as a source (although never cited) if it is used to derive this type of information
What is Common Knowledge?
A sentence comprised of three independent clauses is what type of sentence?
What is a compound sentence?
The words abacus, cherub, macabre, and pharaoh, among many others, have this language as their origin.
What is Hebrew?
Whenever you have trouble starting your essay, or you find that there is too much material to cover, or that you are being extremely general, its a good idea to do this.
What is narrow your thesis or be more specific?
Give two examples of contributors, to whom you would also need to give attribution in a citation.
What are illustrator, translator, editor, compiler, researcher, photographer, etc.?
When conducting research, this search engine may provide much better results than a basic Google search.
What is Google Scholar?
Classify the following sentence:
"Six times I've told you, and six times you've failed to listen to me, David - irritating, that's what you are."
What is compound-complex?
Conjugate the following verb from this infinitive: (simple past, past participle, present participle, future tense, future perfect): TO BITE.
Simple past: Bit
Past Participle: Bitten
Present Participle: Biting
Future Tense: Will Bite
Future Perfect: Will Have Been Bitten
Not ending a sentence with a preposition, avoiding slang terminology, and avoiding common problems like double negatives are all examples of this.
What is elevating your language/diction?
What are "Modern Language Association" and "American Psychological Association?"
The more you read, the easier your paper is to write. In general, this number of pages you read will translate to one written page.
What is ten?