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This is an essay which offers facts/evidence that supports a topic and educates an audience
What is an Informational Essay?
100
statements that can be proved true
What are facts?
100
a word, phrase, or clause that does not form a full sentence
What is a fragment?
100
describes a verb
What is an adverb?
100
a word that takes the place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
200
person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
200
describes a noun
What is an adjective?
200
words used to join words, phrases, or clauses - And, but, for, or, nor, so, and yet
What are conjunctions?
200
a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
What is a comma?
200
a, an, the
What are articles?
300
expresses action or state of being
What is a verb?
300
the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
What is an apostrophe?
300
justify ideas or actions, expand motives, and answer the "why" question
What are reasons?
300
pieces of information that support or tell more about the main idea
What are details?
300
Words that have similar or the same meaning
What is a synonym?
400
used to express thing involved in action, possesor, or spatial relations: with, in, or into, for, before, without, over, under
What are prepositions?
400
direct one's attention on something
What is focus?
400
samples or instances that support or illustrate a general claim
What are examples?
400
an essay that presents arguements and tries to convince readers to adopt a certain point of view
What is a persuasive essay?
400
locate specific information in the text
What is to identify?
500
restate important ideas and details from a paragraph or multiple paragraphs in your own words in a much shorter space
What is summarize?
500
made up of two or more sentences that are incorrectly run together as a single sentence
What is a Run-on Sentence?
500
restate the text or passage in other words to simplify or make clearer
What is paraphrase?
500
draw a logical conclusion using information or evidence (when the information is not directly stated!)
What is infer?
500
state the differences between two or more ideas or passages
What is to contrast?
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