Punctuation
This punctuation mark can be used in a list, to set apart nonessential clauses, after an introductory phrase, or before conjunctions to join two independent clauses.
What is a comma?
This is a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
This clause is missing a subject or a predicate.
What is a fragment?
We wanted to find out all about the way they prepared, the way they trained, and it is also knowing the way they observed.
(A) No Change
(B) and the way they observed.
What is "B"?
This style of writing puts the subject at the beginning of the sentence, followed by an action, and then the object that receives the action.
Subject + Action + Object
What is active voice?
This punctuation mark can be used to combine two independent clauses or to separate items in a list when the items already contain commas.
What is a semicolon?
This is a word used to stand for the name of a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a pronoun?
This clause has a subject and a predicate and stands alone.
What is an independent clause?
Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book and she was sixty-five years old then.
(A) and she was sixty-five years old then
(B) when she was sixty-five
(C) at age sixty-five years old
(D) upon the reaching of sixty-five years
(E) at the time when she was sixty-five
What is (B)?
These paragraphs must be in an SAT essay.
What are an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion?
This punctuation mark can be used to introduce information, commonly a list, definition or explanation.
What is a colon?
This describes a person, place, thing or idea.
What is an adjective?
This clause does not express a complete idea.
What is a phrase?
Sheila had just entered her classroom and that was when she was told that her project was not entered into the science fair.
(A) and that was when she was told
(B) and then she learned
(C) when it was learned by her
(D) when she learned
What is "(D) when she learned"?
The introduction consists of these three parts.
What are a connection to the quotation/prompt, a thesis statement, and the three examples you will use in your essay?
This punctuation mark indicates an abrupt break in thought.
What is a dash? (—)
- Example: I had a great teacher in fourth grade—what was her name?
- Example: I had a great time—it was my best day ever—when we went to the beach.
This describes a noun, adjective or adverb.
What is an adverb?
This clause has a subject and a predicate but relies on another clause.
What is a dependent clause?
4.Before you can go out, you must clean the room, mop the floor, and dusting the house.
(A) Before you can go out, you must clean the room, mop the floor, and dusting the house.
(B) Before you can go out, you must clean the room, mop the floor, and to dust the house.
(C) Before you can go out, you must clean the room, mop the floor, and dusting.
(D) Before you can go out, you must clean the room, mop the floor, and do dusting.
(E) Before you can go out, you must clean the room, mop the floor, and dust the house.
What is (E)?
This style of writing is used to show interest in the person or object that experiences an action rather than the person or object that performs the action. In other words, the most important thing or person becomes the subject of the sentence.
What is passive voice?
This punctuation mark looks like a dash but is used to separate words.
What is a hyphen? (-)
This connects two clauses.
What is a conjunction?
Identify the independent clause in this sentence.
The professor had many questions but no one could answer.
What is "The professor had many questions"?
An independent clause is a group of words that contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought. An independent clause is a sentence
The girls were talking to each other in the hallway for quite some time before class started. However, they were late getting to class because of their lack of time management.
(A) NO CHANGE
(B) Yet
(C) Consequently
(D) Meanwhile
What is "(C) consequently"?
Instead of skipping answers on the SAT, what should you do?
What is guess?