Can I Quote You?
These sit behind every instance of direct quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
What are parenthetical references or in-text citations?
"The fish exhibited a 100 percent mortality rate." is an example of this type of error.
What is gobbedlygook? Confusing language.
This punctuation mark is used at the end of statements, mild commands, and indirect questions.
What is a period or full stop?
This type of essay aims to convince the reader of the truth and validity of your position.
What are persuasive or argumentative essays?
In How the Grinch Stole Christmas, this biological shortcoming makes the Grinch so mean.
What is his heart was two sizes too small?
The "quotation sandwich" refers to these three steps in quoting: introducing it, the quotation, and __________________.
What is explain or interpret the quotation?
"Clothes and shoes scattered around the room." is an example of this type of sentence fault.
What is a sentence fragment?
This punctuation mark is used when introducing a list or a quotation.
What is a colon?
This type of faulty sentence is missing either a subject or a verb.
What is a sentence fragment?
This is Scrooge's first name.
What is Ebeneezer?
This is when you incorporate a small section of another's writer's work directly into your work word for word.
What is quoting?
This information is widely known, can be easily found in an encyclopedia, or can be found in numerous places.
What is common knowledge?
This punctuation mark can be used to connect two or more words into a single concept as well as for numbers 21 through 99.
What is a hyphen?
This type of faulty sentence continues beyond the point where it should have stopped.
What is a run-on sentence?
This is where the stockings were hung in the poem, "Twas the Night Before Christmas."
Deliberately copying someone else's work without giving any credit.
What is plagiarism?
"Putting on my pajamas, a mouse ran across the floor." is an example of this type of modifier error.
What is a dangling modifier?
This punctuation mark can be used to connect two related sentences and to avoid confusion in a complicated list.
What is a semicolon?
These sentences introduce the topic in the paragraph.
What are topic sentences?
This is what Grandma went to get in the song "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer."
What is her medication?
This information is widely known, can be easily found in an encyclopedia, or can be found in numerous places.
What is common knowledge?
"Licking each other fondly, the children admired the kittens." is an example of this type of modifier error.
What is a misplaced modifier?
This refers to the comma before the coordinating conjunction (and or but) in a series.
This is essentially a run-on sentence in which the two main clauses are connected with only a comma.
What is a comma splice?
This is the name of the little girl in "The Nutcracker."
What is Clara?