Good Writing
Persuasive/Expository
Combining Sentences
Editing
What's Wrong?
100
What pronouns should you avoid in formal writing?
What is I and you.
100
What is the key word in the prompt that tells you that you are going to write an expository essay?
What is explain.
100
Jason was hungry. He went to Taco Bell. Combine to make a compound sentence.
What is Jason was hungry, so he went to Taco Bell.
100
What correction should be made to this sentence? Gertrude Ederle was a great american swimmer.
What is American
100
What is wrong? After the tents are set up by the lake.
What is a sentence fragment
200
This helps a reader move from thought to thought or idea to idea
What is a transition word or phrase
200
What are the type of examples you can use to develop an expository essay?
What is historical, current event, personal, other stuff you have read/seen
200
Rewrite the following sentence so that it is a complex sentence. I went to the concession stand. The baseball game started.
What is Before the game started, I went to the concession stand.
200
What correction should be made to this sentence? It did not take her long to turn casual swiming into a competitive profession.
What is swimming
200
The ball was thrown to Bobby by Sam.
What is it is written in the passive voice.
300
What is one way to "hook" the audience?
What is rhetorical question, interesting fact, quotation, imagine statement, anecdote
300
For persuasive writing, you need to appeal to emotion, which is called...
What is pathos.
300
Rewrite the sentence so that it is compound-complex. I want to go to a movie. I get paid on Friday. None of my friends are off.
What is Since I get paid on Friday, I want to go to a movie, but none of my friends are off.
300
What change, if any, should be made in this sentence? The beekeepers was happy to have all our bees.
What is were
300
Historians believe that the first modern pizza, like many other delicious tomato-based foods, were invented in Naples, Italy.
What is incorrect verb usage. Change were to was.
400
A good thesis statement should (a) be one-sided (b) control ideas and provide structure (c) be broad to allow for development of ideas (d) come at the end of the paper
What is B, control ideas and provide structure
400
When a writer anticipates the other side's position and addresses it, it is called
What is counterargument
400
What is the best way to combine these sentences? My dog has hair hanging over his eyes. He looks just like a dust mop. A) My dog has hair hanging over his eyes, he looks just like a dust mop. B) My dog has hair hanging over his eyes, or he looks just like a dust mop. C) My dog has hair hanging over his eyes, and he looks just like a dustmop.
What is C, "My dog has hair hanging over his eyes, and he looks just like a dustmop."
400
What change should be made? And brought her inside and made her a house dog. How would you make this sentence correct?
What is add a subject...who brought her inside?
400
If you stretch you're imagination, just about any ingredient in the kitchen can be used as an element in a sandwich.
What is incorrect usage of "you're"...should be your
500
All evidence provided in an ANY essay should be
What is specific and not general
500
This appears as the last sentence of any persuasive essay
What is a call to action
500
I have time. I ride on the bike trail at the park. Combine the 2 sentences/phrases. A) If I have time and I ride on the bike trail at the park. B) If I have time I like to ride. On the bike trail at the park. C) If I have time, I like to ride on the bike trail at the park. D) If I have time, and I like to ride on the bike trail at the park.
What is C. "If I have time, I like to rid eon the bike trail at the park."
500
What correction should be made to the following sentence? The boys toys were lost in the fire.
What is boys'
500
Its hard to find other figures in American history books who make thier country proud.
What is incorrect usage of "Its"...should be "it's"
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