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What are the social titles that are always abbreviated when they appear before a name?
Mrs.
Mr.
Dr.
What are proper nouns?
A specific/particular person, place, or thing.
What is the term of a word that takes the place of a noun?
pronoun
What punctuation ends an interrogative sentence?
Question mark.
What are the three kinds of verbs?
action
linking
helping
What punctuation is placed after a name and BEFORE a scholastic degree?
A comma.
Which is correct?
A. a lesson in algebra
B. a lesson in Algebra
A. a lesson in algebra
What are the four kinds of sentences?
declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory
Coordinating conjunction
What two things must we remember when distinguishing verbs from verbals?
1. a verb has a subject, and 2. a verbal functions as a noun, adjective, or adverb
Which abbreviation comes BEFORE a year.
A.D.
Which is correct?
A. Keebler Cookies
B. Keebler cookies
B. Keebler cookies
What is the difference between a run-on sentence and a sentence fragment?
a run-on sentence is too much information.
a sentence fragment is not enough information.
Use _______ to indication a nonessential element in a sentence.
pair of commas
What are the four principal parts?
present, present participle, past, and past participle
What is the only case that Reverend and Honorable are abbreviated?
When the full name is written.
Which is correct?
A. moved out west
B. moved out West
B. moved out West
What questions help you locate a complement in a sentence?
who, whom, or what after the verb
How do we notate titles of books, magazines, newspapers, plays, works of art, and the names of ships, trains, aircrafts, and spacecrafts.
italics or underlines
What are the six verb tenses?
present tense
past tense
future tense
present perfect tense
past perfect tense
future perfect tense
In non-scientific writing, spell out all numbers of ____ words.
up to two
Where are the capitalization errors below:
'tis education forms the common mind:
just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined
- Alexander Pope
'Tis and Just
What is the difference between a complete subject and a simple subject, and which one do we use in grammar?
A complete subject is the subject and its modifiers, whereas a simple subject is the subject WITHOUT its modifiers. We use the simple subject.
What punctuation do we use to enclose the exact words of a speaker?
Quotation marks
What is the past tense of the verb "lie"?
lay