Make it Grammatical
Together a subject and a verb form a complete thought, but it's also known as this.
What is a sentence?
It's a kind of letter used to designate a person's name, the name of a specific place, or the title of a book or movie.
What is a capital letter?
They typically separates two complete thoughts with just a little mark.
What is a period or a semi-colon?
Your thesis statement is the idea that the universe will continue to expand and contract for billions of years. There is a name for taking on such a huge topic.
A paragraph is composed of these and they make a complete idea.
What is a sentence?
The correct way of capitalizing the phrase, declaration of independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This punctuation mark brackets off ideas or phrases in a sentence, but you need to use two of them to get it right.
What is a parenthesis? ( )
In addition to a strong thesis statement, your essay needs to include these critical elements.
What are the supporting points and a conclusion?
A sentence is often structured with the subject first then the verb. That's called the active voice. But these sentences are built with the verb first, then the subject.
What is the passive voice?
Capitalize "Donald Trump, president," if the word president comes before Trump's name in the phrase.
President Donald Trump.
This is called a run-on sentence, "It was getting late so I drove too fast the policeman gave me a ticket." There is a punctuation mark and a simple word that can correct the error.
What is a comma and the word and?
The logical problem used to describe this sentence, "Donuts are round because they're shaped like a circle."
What is redundancy?
"Them drive to school" isn't a grammatical sentence. It's lacking something.
What is agreement between subject and verb?
In the sentence, "I drove west to get to the West Coast," the reason West Coast coast is capitalized.
Because it refers to a specific region.
If you added this punctuation mark you'd be showing a sudden change of thought or adding something funny. It rhymes with "flash."
What is a dash?
"I reached up to catch a foul ball at the game--but missed and fell over a row of seats!"
Good writers do this constantly because no essay is perfect in the first draft.
What is revising and editing?
"He drove his car off the cliff. Although he wasn't drinking," is an example of a major grammatical error.
What is a sentence fragment?
When the word "Capitol" is spelled with an "O" instead of an "A" it's referring to something specific.
What is the building where the U.S. Congress meets?
Consider these incorrect phrases: wind blown, hip hop and five year old. There is a punction mark that will fix all the problems.
What is a hyphen?
Taking other people's ideas and calling them your own. It's the academic equivalent of theft.
What is plagiarism?