USAGE
STYLE
MECHANICS
TERMS
MISCELLANEOUS
100
noun that renames a preceding noun
What is appositive?
100
paramedic method
What is a technique used to make writing more concise?
100
punctuation used with coordinating conjuction
What is a comma?
100
collective noun
What is a word that refers to a group of people?
100
the nuts and bolts of grammar
What is mechanics?
200
number of verb used when referring to a group acting as one (cohesively)
What is a singular verb?
200
The _________of writing accomplishes a specific goal.
What is the primary objective?
200
punctuation used with a nonrestrictive clause
What is a comma?
200
direct address
What is speaking directly to someone (group) by name?
200
seven coordinating conjunctions
What are and, but, or, for, nor, yet so?
300
Subject and verbs must agree in gender, person, and ____________________.
What is number?
300
the subject of the sentence is the doer of the action
What is active voice?
300
two types of punctuation that can join independent clauses
What are the period and the semicolon?
300
has a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone
What is a dependent clause?
300
two indepndent clauses joined with a comma
What is a comma splice?
400
the chief purpose of military writing
What is to provide or to request information?
400
the subject of the sentence is acted upon
What is passive voice?
400
precedes a conjunctive adverb
What is a semicolon?
400
repeating the same information in different ways
What is redundancy?
400
seems to modify something that has been left out of the sentence
What is a dangling modifier?
500
three types of parallelism
What are coordinate, correlative, and comparative?
500
the impression created in writing
What is the tone?
500
punctuation used to show omission of letters or words
What is apostrophe?
500
antecedent
What is the noun or noun phrase that a personal pronoun refers back to?
500
the verbal that is used only as a noun
What is a gerund?
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