Parts of Speech
Takes the place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
A type of clause that is introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
What is an adverb clause?
A sentence type that contains two or more independent clauses and no dependent clauses.
What is a compound sentence structure?
A date designation that comes ahead of the year number.
What is A.D?
The first step in the writing process.
What is planning?
Word that modifies a noun or a pronoun
What is an adjective?
A group of words that contains both a subject, a verb, and a complete thought; can stand alone
What is an independent clause?
A type of sentence that contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
These numbers must be written out if they are under one hundred.
The most important step in the writing process.
What is rewriting?
Word or word group that joins words, phrases, and clauses
What is a conjunction?
A clause that is introduced by a signal word that may have a grammatical function within its clause.
What is a noun clause?
A type of sentence that contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence type?
Abbreviations that should be used with a full name [ie: Thomas Jefferson]
What is Reverend (Rev), Honorable (Hon), Junior (Jr), and Senior (Sr)?
The sentence that states the main idea of a paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
Word that shows how a noun or pronoun is related to some other word in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
A word that joins an adjective clause to another clause, serves a grammatical function within the adjective clause, and refers to an antecedent in another clause.
What is a relative?
The house is still owned by our family that Grandfather built.
What is a misplaced modifier?
In nonscientific writing, these two numbers are exceptions to the rule of spelling out all numbers of one or two words.
What is year numbers and numbers referring to a book?
The sentence that is used at the end of a paragraph to restate the main ideas.
What is a summarizing sentence?
A noun or adjective that is sometimes needed in addition to the direct object.
What is an objective complement?
A phrase with a noun or pronoun modified by a participle or participial phrase; has no grammatical function in the sentence.
What is a nominative absolute?
Flying over the city, the skyscrapers could be clearly seen.
What is a dangling modifier?
It is now general practice to omit this punctuation mark from abbreviations of organizations.
What are periods?
The four ways to develop an idea in a paragraph.
What are examples, incidents, reasons, and comparison/contrast?