Clauses
This type of clause contains a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought, so it can stand alone as a sentence.
What is independent clause?
This punctuation mark is used to separate three or more words, phrases, or clauses written in a list.
What is a comma?
The word or phrase that a pronoun replaces or refers to is called this.
What is antecedent?
Pronouns must agree with their antecedent in number and this.
What is person?
This type of error happens when a reader cannot tell which specific noun a pronoun is replacing.
What is a vague pronoun?
In the following sentence, this is the dependent clause: "After we eat lunch, we will go to the park.
What is "After we eat lunch"?
This is the correct way to write the following sentence: "I need to clean my room do my homework and walk the dog."
What is "I need to clean my room, do my homework, and walk the dog"?
n the sentence "The dog wagged its tail," the word "dog" acts as the antecedent for this pronoun.
What is its?
This sentence contains a pronoun shift: "When the clock strikes midnight, you will make a loud noise."
What is "When the clock strikes midnight, it will make a loud noise"?
In the sentence "When the vase fell on the glass table, it broke," the pronoun "it" is vague because it is unclear if it refers to the table or this object.
What is the vase?
In the following sentence, this is the independent clause: "You can ride your electric scooter after you finish your homework."
What is "You can ride your electric scooter"?
This is the correct way to write the following sentence: "We can visit Washington DC Richmond Williamsburg and Virginia Beach on our summer vacation."
What is "We can visit Washington DC, Richmond, Williamsburg, and Virginia Beach on our summer vacation"?
If you are writing about "The boys and girls," you would use this plural pronoun to replace the subject.
What is "they"?
In the sentence "If a student wants good grades, you have to study," the error is caused by shifting from the third person ("student") to this second-person pronoun.
What is "you"?
"They say that it is going to snow tomorrow."
In this sentence, the vague pronoun is this word, because we don't know who is actually speaking.
What is "they"?
This is the correct way to fix the following sentence fragment: "Because he studied hard for the test."
What is attaching it to an independent clause (ex: "He passed the class because he studied hard for the test.")?
This is the correct way to write the following sentence: "January is my favorite month because you can go skiing in the mountains drink hot chocolate in a cabin watch the snow fall out the window and sometimes get a two hour delay at school."
What is "January is my favorite month because you can go skiing in the mountains, drink hot chocolate in a cabin, watch the snow fall out the window, and sometimes get a two hour delay at school" ?
Indefinite pronouns like everyone, somebody, and each are this (singular or plural).
What is singular?
"When a person exercises, they feel better."
In strict formal grammar, this sentence contains a shift in number because "person" is singular, but "they" is this.
What is "plural"?
"The mother told her daughter that she needed to cook dinner."
The pronoun "she" is vague because it could refer to the daughter or this person.
Who is the mother?
When a dependent clause comes before an independent clause, you must use this punctuation mark to separate them.
What is a comma?
You generally do not use commas if a list contains this many items.
What is two?
This sentence contains an error in pronoun-antecedent agreement: "If a student wants to get good grades, they have to study hard."
What is "If a student wants to get good grades, he or she has to study hard.
"The team lost their game."
This is considered a pronoun shift error because the collective noun "team" is singular, but "their" is plural. The correct pronoun to use instead of "their" is this.
What is "its"?
To fix the vague pronoun in the sentence "Seth met Jim at the park, and he was late," you should replace the word "he" with this.
What is a specific name (or Seth / Jim)?