General Sentence Structure
Name the type of sentence: "She ran to the store."
What is a simple sentence?
Define what is wrong with the following sentence: "We went to the store and bought apples, bananas, and, milk."
There is an extra comma. Remove the comma between "and" and "milk".
Define the error in this MLA quotation:
"You are like, Papa!" ~ Eleven.
What is the tilde? in MLA format we should be introducing each quote and giving it a proper MLA citation.
This is the type of font and the size you should be writing in for an MLA formal essay.
What is Times New Roman and size 12 font?
Define the error in the following sentence: "Hedwig, come back," shows the love that Harry and all the others in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows had for their pets (Rowling 256).
What is the in-text citation? It should appear directly after the quoted material.
Name the type of sentence: "The sun was shining brightly, but a cool breeze was blowing."
What is a compound sentence?
Define a comma splice.
What is a common error where a comma is used to connect two complete sentences?
Define the error: According to William Fulkner, the past is never truly gone. He states, "The past is never dead. It's not even past," (Fulkner 102).
What is the in-text citation? Faulker has already been mentioned, so the citation should read (102).
This is how you should begin your Works Cited page in MLA format.
What is after a page break and with a center-aligned title?
Your MLA citations within your works cited page should be formated as such.
What is in alphabetical order, and with a hanging indent? As well as being one after another, without any spaces in between.
Name the type of sentence: "Although it was a bright and sunny day, we decided to stay indoors because the heat index was dangerously high, and we wanted to finish the book that we started yesterday."
What is a complex sentence
Define if the error in the sentence: "The only book, that I have not read, is on the top shelf."
What are the commas? The sentence should be written without any commas. Correct: "The only book that I have not read is on the top shelf."
Define the error in this quotation: According to one researcher, "The internet is simply the latest stage in the development of human communication technology" (Thompson, pg. 25).
this is how your page should be spaced out.
This is how you should format titles of short stories vs. titles of novels or plays in your MLA formatted essay.
What is Short stories in quotations and italics used for titles of Novels and Plays?
Name the type of sentence: "Because the road was closed, we had to take a detour, so we arrived at the concert thirty minutes late."
What is a compound-complex sentence?
Define the error in the sentence: "the team of dedicated volunteers who spent countless hours preparing the community garden for spring planting, was surprised by the sudden storm."
What is the comma? There should be no comma in the sentence.
What is the 42 or the issue/volume number? The citation should be just the author's last name and page number. So it should read as (Smith 8).
This is how your header should look in MLA format.
What is ... your first name, your teacher's name, the class title, and the date? (The date written in European Style).
What is (Title act.scene.lines)?
Name all the parts of a compound-complex sentence.
Parts: at least two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Define the error in the sentence: "My aunt who lives in Seattle, is a phenomenal baker."
What is a missing comma? there should be a comma between "aunt" and "who".
What is wrong with the quotation marks in the following sentence: Here the critic argues that the author misinterprets the core conflict, "When the protagonist states, 'I am entirely without hope,' she is clearly misunderstood," (Williams 55).
What are the single quotations around "I am entirely without hope?" It should be double quotation marks, not a single one.
Define the errors in this MLA citation:
Smith, John Jacob. " The Future Of Space Travel" . New York, NY: Penguin Press; 2024. Print.
What is the capital O in of, the extra space before the period, the New York, the semi-colon, and the word "Print."?
The O should be lowercase. It should read, New York City, NY. The Semi-colon after "Penguin Press" should be a comma. "Print." should be excluded, as this is MLA 7 format and not MLA 9. Finally, there is an extra space between "travel" and the "."
This is the major rule you must follow when writing your quotations in your MLA-formatted papers.
Hint: We have not mentioned it in any other questions. And it does not have to do with the "~".
What is making sure you introduce your quote and not just throw it into your paragraphs?