What's the point?
Vocabulary
Grammar
Make Lemondade
Sentence Structure
100
main idea
What is the point the author is making about the topic?
100
patrol
What is what officers do in high crime areas?
100
a capital letter
What you begin each sentence and proper nouns with?
100
LaVaughn and Jolly
Who are the two main characters?
100
a complete sentence or independent clause
What is a group of words that has a subject, a verb, and makes a complete thought?
200
major supporting details
What is the information that directly supports the main idea?
200
clenched
What are hands tightly squeezed together?
200
adjective
What is describes a noun?
200
14 and 17
What are the ages of the two main characters?
200
a fragment
What is a phrase or group of words punctuated like a sentence but missing a part?
300
found anywhere in the passage/reading
Where is the main idea located?
300
despise
When you are disgusted by something?
300
a comma
What is used to separate words in a series?
300
a way out of povery
What is LaVaughn going to college?
300
a run-on
What are two independent phrases fused together improperly?
400
implied main idea
What is the author's point that is NOT directly stated?
400
din
What is a loud, confusing noise?
400
indent or indentation
What is the space you use to begin a paragraph?
400
box guys and box girls
What are the names Jolly and the kids called themselves when they were homeless?
400
a compound sentence
What are two independent clauses properly joined together?
500
minor supporting details
What are the details that are usually examples and/or illustrations of the points the author is making?
500
adequate
What is sufficient or enough?
500
nouns, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions, interjections, conjunctions, adjectives
What are the eight parts of speech?
500
She was sexually assaulted and sexually harassed.
What happened to Jolly at her job?
500
a complex sentence
What is a dependent clause and an independent clause combined with a comma?
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