Grammar 101
What kind of problem does this group of words have?
Kelli finally found the food she had been craving for months. A Reuben sandwich.
What is a fragment?
The font type, font size, margin space of an essay.
What is Times New Roman, 12 pt, and 1 inch margins?
This is what you should title the collection of citations at the end of your paper.
What is Works Cited?
This type of essay informs the reader about a specific subject
What is a informative essay
Is a short collection of paragraphs that present facts, opinions, and ideas of a topic.
What is an essay?
What kind of problem does this group of words have?
Delilah found her missing watch, she had spent the whole day looking for it.
What is a comma splice?
President Obama declared, "I would love to visit Miami!" This is an example of using a ___________ in your essay.
What is a quotation?
This is how your reference list/works cited page should be organized.
What is alphabetically by the citations' first word?
What is a hook?
The first part of the essay that gives the reader an idea of what the essay is going to be about.
What is an introduction?
What kind of problem does this group of words have? Gerald plays the piano. As though he’s angry at the keys.
What is a fragment?
A word or phrase used to show the reader a change in direction from one idea to another
What is a transition?
*** Double Jeopardy ***
What is the full author name and book title of the fiction book we read in class this year?
En21: Melal: Robert Barclay A Novel of the Pacific
EN23: J. Brian Clarke: Alphanauts
*** DOUBLE JEOPARDY *** What two main things you do before you write an essay.
Create a framework and do research
It is the last sentence of the introduction that tells you the main idea of the essay.
What is a thesis statement?
Which word should be deleted to correct this sentence structure problem?
Because the truck will not start since Kevin worked on it after his stepbrother tried to teach him how to repair vehicles.
What is "because"?
When Carl was younger.
What is a sentence fragment?
What is writing weekly goals, challenges, and wins.
What tells the reader about the subtopics
What is a thesis statement?
Is the development of the topic, the paragraphs that go between the introduction and the conclusion.
What is the body?
One of these commas should be replaced with a colon. What word is before the comma that should be replaced?
Over the weekend, Devon read three of Poe's stories, "Ligeia," "The Masque of Red Death," and "The Black Cat."
What is "stories"?
The name of Professor Rustick's daughter
What is Isabella?
For MLA, this is what should be included in an in-text parenthetical citation.
What is the author's/authors' last name(s) and the page number(s)? (Smith 43) (Smith and Jones 52-57)
A sentence used to try to make the reader interested in the essay-pull them in.
What is a hook?
Facts or sources that support your written argument
What is evidence?