Parts of Speech
These name person, place, thing, activity, or idea.
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nouns?
This purpose is indicated by a question mark.
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the interrogative purpose?
This verb type does not transfer action from the subject to an object.
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An intransitive verb?
She marched across the road.
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a strong verb?
This is the name for the people in a story.
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the characters?
This replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.
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a pronoun?
This sentence structure includes one independent clause.
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a simple structure?
Name the four sentence structures.
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Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex?
She quickly walked across the road.
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an -ly adverb?
The first sentence which tells what the paragraph is about.
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the topic sentence?
These modify verbs, adjectives, or adverbs.
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adverbs?
It's the pattern of this sentence:
Jesus is humble.
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S-Vl-Pa?
This type of conjunction includes for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
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coordinating conjunctions?
She walked across the massive road.
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a quality adjective?
This is the problem, want, or need of the main character in the story.
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the conflict?
These answer the questions:
what kind? how many? which? or whose?
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adjectives?
This purpose always has an "understood" you as the subject.
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the imperative purpose?
This type of noun names more than one person, place, thing, activity, or idea.
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a plural noun?
She walked across the road, which wasn't busy, to get to the other side.
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a who-which clause?
This is the turning point of the story, or the event that leads to the conflict being solved.
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the climax?
These relate a noun or pronoun to another word.
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prepositions?
This structure includes a FANBOY and at least two independent clauses.
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the compound structure?
What questions do adverbs answer?
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how? when? where? why? how often? how much? to what extent? under what condition?
She walked across the road because she was dressed like a chicken.
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a because clause?
The last sentence of a paragraph that reflects or repeats the topic?
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The clincher.