Grammar
What is the pronoun in the following sentence?
Tabitha passed the ball to her friend.
Her
When writing your response to a short answer question, the first thing that you should do is what?(Hint: it's what the first letter in RACE stands for)
Restate
This is found at the back of a book and provides an alphabetical list of words and their definitions
What is a synonym? Give me an example!
Two words that have the same meaning are called synonyms.
Example: happy and glad
A true/real/non-fiction story. It gives the reader facts and information.
Name the three types of punctuation marks that you might find at the end of a sentence.
Period, exclamation point, question mark.
If the author is trying to convince someone to do something or to see a situation from their point of view, we can say that their purpose is to do what?
Persuade
What do we call the title of a section of a passage that tells what that section will be about?
Heading
What is a proper noun?
Word(s) that name a specific person, place or thing. They must be capitalized.
Examples: Friday, Meredith, Arby's
What are quotation marks used for?
They show when someone is talking.
"Hello, how are you?" asked James.
Correct the following sentence:
were going to the movies with there cousins on saturday
We're going to the movies with their cousins on Saturday.
When you are writing, all of your key details or evidence should support your _______________.
The ________________ is what the entire piece of writing is focused on or mostly about.
Main idea.
I will also accept: central idea or thesis statement
Photos may include a piece of text under them that offers a description of what is happening in the picture. What is this called?
Caption
Compare and contrast similes and metaphors.
They both compare two things but a simile uses the words "like" and "as" and a metaphor does NOT.
What is an autobiography?
The story of a person's life written by that person.
These punctuation marks are used to show possession or to replace letters when combining two words to make a contraction
Apostrophe
Example: Chelsea's water bottle won't open.
Why do we cite when writing a short answer response?
To prove that our answer is correct and provide examples.
(Accept similar responses)
To find vocabulary words more easily in our textbook, they are ____________ and _________.
Highlighted and bolded.
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of multiple words found close together is called what? Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
Find the adjective in the following sentence.
The fluffy cat was sleeping.
Fluffy
When capitalizing titles of books and movies, we don't capitalize the short words. What do we call short words such as a, an, and the?
Articles
When I am writing an essay with multiple paragraphs, I should do this to show when a new paragraph starts.
Hint: to do this on a chromebook, you press tab.
Indent
In the front of a book, you might find one of these that lists the chapters or sections of the book and tells you what page each section begins on to help the reader locate things more easily.
Table of contents
We begin a letter with a __________ Ex. Dear John, We end a letter with a ______________ Ex. Love, Amy
Greeting, salutation
What style of poetry originated in Japan and has 17 total syllables, with 5 in the first line, 7 in the second line, and 5 in the final line.
Haiku