This is a clause that cannot be a sentence on its own.
What is a Dependent Clause?
100
This grammar rule states that anytime you list items, ideas, or thoughts in a sentence, each item on that list must be similar in structure, verb tense, and word form.
What is parallelism?
100
This is the most important part of your paper. It should be a direct response to the essential question. It contains a subject and verb, and it is the main point that the entire paper is trying to prove. It contains several key terms, and those key terms should be used to inspire topic sentences.
What is the thesis statement?
100
This rhetorical pattern is meant to tell a detailed story about a short period of time. It should focus on small, vivid details (like feelings, emotions, sights, smells, etc.) and it can include a small amount of dialogue.
What is a narrative paragraph.
100
This is the sentence from the prompt that should inspire your thesis statement. It tells you what your subject and claim will be. If you don't respond carefully to all parts of this question when writing your thesis, your paper may be off-topic. This sentence can sometimes be a statement, not a question, and it can sometimes be more than one sentence long. Writers must look for this every time they receive a prompt!
What is an essential question?
200
This is a clause that can stand on its own. In other words, it is a complete sentence.
What is an Independent Clause?
200
This is the error of joining two Independent Clauses together with only a comma. It can never be done!
What is a comma splice?
200
This is the last paragraph of your paper. Its main purpose is to give the audience a sense of why the paper they just read actually matters. It can make a call to action, speculate about the future, or connect the paper to a current issue or topic, but it cannot contain any new claims or analysis!
What is a conclusion?
200
This rhetorical pattern states just the main points or most important details of something (such as a period in history, a book, a movie, a speech, a piece of research, etc).
What is a summary paragraph?
200
These are the three steps in the writing process.
What is pre-writing, writing/drafting, and revision.
300
If you put a comma before these words, they can be used to join up two complete sentences (Independent Clauses).
What is a Coordinating Conjunction or FANBOYS? (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)
300
Period, semicolon, exclamation point, question mark, and comma plus one of the FANBOYS.
What are five ways to join up two Independent Clauses (or complete sentences) correctly?
300
This is the place that all of the background information about your subject should go. It should include a hook at the beginning, and the last line should be your thesis statement.
What is the introduction paragraph?
300
This rhetorical pattern focuses on answering lots of W questions about a topic, idea, or thing in order to carefully examine it. it is the building block for most other types of paragraphs; almost every paragraph will contain some of this.
What is analysis?
300
This is the process of active reading, and it involves looking up vocabulary words and writing them in your book; using post-its to mark important ideas; highlighting in different colors in order to remember important people, quotes, and ideas; writing down reactions to the text; and glossing paragraphs in the margins in order to remember what those paragraphs were about.
What is annotation?
400
These are two types of sentence combining.
The first involves combining two complete sentences (ICs) by transforming the first sentence into a dependent clause and putting a comma between the two clauses.
The second involves adding one of the FANBOYS with a comma before it to split up two complete sentences (ICs)
What are subordination and coordination?
400
This part of speech (word form) describes, modifies, or adds details about a verb. It often tells when, where, why, or under what conditions something happens or happened.
What is an adverb?
400
This is the first sentence of each paragraph. This sentence should have a subject (the thing or idea you will be discussing), and a claim (which can be an argument, an opinion, or a statement about why you will be presenting the information you are about to discuss). All of the information throughout the paragraph needs to support the key terms from this sentence.
What is a topic sentence?
400
This rhetorical pattern requires the writer to create a very strong, persuasive topic sentence that attempts to change the reader's mind about something. Within the paragraph, the writer will present examples, evidence, and analysis to support the persuasive topic sentence.
What is an argument paragraph?
400
These are three things that you should read and examine every time you get a new book. You should read these things before you actually begin the book; this is important because it allows you to figure out what the book will be about, and to try to determine what the book's thesis will be. You can also learn more about any bias the book might have.
What are the front and back covers, the table of contents, and the introduction or preface?
500
This is a clause that comes at the beginning of a sentence, and acts as a transition into that sentence. It must always be separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma.
What is an Introductory Clause or an Independent Marker?
500
This is the core of the English sentence. Every sentence must have these two things.
In order to ensure that your sentences are clear, you should take some time to check each sentence to ensure that these two things are clear, that one is clearly "doing" the other, and that they both agree in plurality.
What are the subject and the verb?
500
These are the two things you need to include in your paper every time you mention someone else's ideas or quote someone else. One of these things goes in your paper (at the end of the sentence with the outside information), and the other goes on the very last page of your paper.
What are the Works Cited Page and in-text citations?
500
This rhetorical pattern requires the writer to carefully analyze the similarities and differences between two things. When writing this paragraph, the writer will need to create a topic sentence that clearly indicates what two things will be compared, and why they will be compared.
What is a compare and contrast paragraph?
500
This is something you should do before you turn every paper in. It can feel awkward sometimes, but it is one of the best ways to catch your own errors. As you do it, you should hold a pencil in your hand and circle any places where your words sound off. You can come back to those once you are finished.