Vocabulary
Parts of Speech
Research Writing
Grammar
Miscellaneous
100
to cheat or swindle; to thwart
What is bilk?
100
A person, place, thing, concept, or action
What is a noun?
100
Name, teacher's name, class/course, and date.
What is a heading?
100
The who or what a sentence is about
What is a subject?
100
MLA stands for
What is Modern Language Association?
200
manner of walking
What is gait?
200
A word that indicates actions, states of mind, occurrences, and states of being.
What is a verb?
200
Claiming credit for someone else's intellectual work no matter whether it's to make money or get a better grade.
What is plagiarism?
200
The main verb, or action, in a sentence
What is a predicate?
200
Plural of phenomenon
What is phenomena?
300
slyness and cunning in dealing with others
What is guile?
300
Words that modify nouns and pronouns.
What is an adjective?
300
Restating the author's argument in your own words.
What is a paraphrase?
300
________ phrases modify nouns and are often set off by a pair of commas. Andy, my old linguistics teacher, became one of my best friends.
What is an appositive [phrase]?
300
An -ing form of a verb used as a noun, such as running, skiing, or laughing.
What is a gerund?
400
something or someone existing outside of its proper time
What is anachronism?
400
Words that indicate the relationship between words or a group of words.
What is a conjunction?
400
Writing sentences with direct quotes and parentheses, the end punctuation goes...
What is after the parentheses?
400
An incomplete sentence that jams together two or more sentences, failing to separate them with appropriate punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
400
The noun (or pronoun) that a pronoun refers to.
What is an antecedent?
500
a minor weakness in character
What is foible?
500
A, an, and the.
What is an article?
500
The sentence that announces your topic and indicates what points you want to make about that topic.
What is a thesis statement?
500
Mike walked to his car when he got out of class, but he had to go back for his briefcase. Type of sentence?
What is a compound-complex [sentence]?
500
Affect is a ____. Effect is a ____.
What is verb? What is a noun?
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