Contractions
A punctuation mark that looks like a floating comma
What is an apostrophe?
Proper nouns and initials should always begin with this
What is a capital letter?
A word part that consists of one vowel sound
What is a syllable?
A written way to communicate large amounts of information
What is an essay?
This should be effective since it is the first thing your audience will see
What is the title?
was + not
What is wasn't?
These 2 calendar components should always begin with a capital letter (there are 12 of one and 7 of the other)
What are the months of the year and days of the week?
Number of syllables in the word fortnight
What is 2?
General term for what an essay is about
What is topic or theme?
When editing an essay, you should make sure it is from the same point of this
What is view?
The 2 words that make up the contraction could've
What are could and have?
When writing a sentence, this word should always begin with a capital letter.
What is the first?
A word part added to the beginning of a word that changes its meaning
What is a prefix?
The first step in writing an essay in which you just write down all of your ideas
What is brainstorm?
You should check for the correct tense of these
What are verbs?
This contraction means it is (correct spelling required)
What is it's?
The abbreviation for Doctor (as a personal title, like Doctor Smith)
What is Dr. ?
Meaning of the prefix pre-
What is before?
The second step of writing an essay in which you organize all of your notes
What is outline?
Make sure you are using descriptive _________
What are adjectives
These 2 words are often mistaken for the contraction they're (spelling required)
What are their and there?
This one letter personal pronoun should always be capitalized
What is I?
The suffix added to the end of a word to make it plural (more than one)
What is -s ?
The standard number of paragraphs for an essay
What is 5?
The 3 points of view
What are 1st person, 2nd person, and 3rd person