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100

_____ always begin with a capital letter and end in either a full stop, exclamation or question mark.

Sentence

100

a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this ).

pro·noun

100

Organizing your thoughts and brainstorm ideas

Prewriting

100

bread and melted cheese  put together is 

Cheese toast

100

What has four eyes but can’t see?

Mississippi

200

A _____ is a series of sentences that are organized and coherent, and are all related to a single topic. Almost every piece of writing you do that is longer than a few sentences should be organized into ________ 

Paragraph

200

a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things ( common noun ), or to name a particular one of these ( proper noun ).

Noun

200

How many steps are in the writing process?

5

200

What answer can you never answer yes to?


Are you asleep yet?

200

Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?


A map

300

the activity or skill of marking coherent words on paper and composing text.

Writing

300

a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

Verb

300

What are the five steps of writing?

Prewriting, Rough Draft, Revise, Edit, Final Copy

300

What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

Silence

300

What word is spelled wrong in the dictionary?

WRONG

400

writing, typically fiction or poetry, which displays imagination or invention (often contrasted with academic or journalistic writing).

Creative Writing

400

a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.

Adjective

400

To add, change, and delete sentences.

Revise

400

I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

Seven

400

: What happens once in a lifetime, twice in a moment, but never in one hundred years?



The letter "M"

500

literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.

Poetry

500

a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there ).

Adverb

500

To edit capitals, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.

Edit

500

What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?


The future

500

What becomes wetter the more it dries?

A towel

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