Parts of Speech
Comma rules
Sentence structure
Punctuation
Potpourri
100
someone, thing, place or idea
What is a noun?
100
The following comma error: The cake looked delicious, it tasted good.
What is a comma splice.
100
This is the verb in the following sentence: The cat folded its paws under its chest.
What is "folded"?
100
This is the mark of punctuation that should go where the x is: My mother cosigned for a loan x now I have my own car.
What is a semicolon?
100
This is the error in the following sentence: Swinging from tree to tree, we watched the monkeys in the zoo.
What is a "misplaced modifier"?
200
These add information to nouns and pronouns.
What are adjectives?
200
The comma goes after this introductory expression in the following sentence: Once I have finished my homework I will call you.
What is "Once I have finished my homework"?
200
This is the second preposition phrase in this sentence: Our field trip to the desert begins at 6:00 in the morning on Friday.
What is "at 6:00"?
200
This is the mark of punctuation that should go where the x is: The truck comes in the following colors x red, black, blue, and silver.
What is a colon?
200
What you would put in place of "which" in the following sentence: The dog barked at the cat which climbed the tree.
What is "that"?
300
These words replace nouns to avoid repeating them (like I, she, it, they).
What are pronouns.
300
Delete the comma after this word: I was walking, to the car, and my sister, my brother, and my mom were following me.
What is "walking"?
300
This is an incomplete sentence structure missing a subject or a verb or both.
What is a fragment?
300
This is the mark of punctuation that should go where the x is: We have exciting news x we're moving!
What is a dash?
300
This is the "road map" sentence of your paper.
What is the thesis statement?
400
"quickly" and "brand" in the following sentence: Terri quickly installed the brand new computers.
What are adverbs.
400
Commas go around this phrase in the following sentence: Hamlet Shakespeare's famous play has been made into movies many times.
What is "Shakespeare's famous play"?
400
This is the error in the following sentence: I just read an article about prehistoric rodents I was surprised by their size.
What is a "run-on"?
400
This is what you put around the title of essays, poems, and songs.
What are quotation marks?
400
This is the correct way to list things in the following sentence: I like to hike, to ski, and go sailing.
What is "I like to hike, to ski, and to sail."
500
"in" and "at" in the following sentence: The computers arrived in the writing lab at noon.
What are prepositions.
500
A correction of the following sentence: We started up the car; only to discover we were out of gas.
What is "We started up the car, only to discover we were out of gas."
500
This is a correct way to revise the faulty pronoun reference in this sentence: The students tried to use the computers, but they were too slow, so they decided to go home.
What is "The students tried to use the computers, but the computers were too slow, so they decided to go home.
500
A period goes after this in the following sentence: According to research, chocolate contributes to a positive attitude (Smith 47)
What is "(Smith 47)"?
500
This is the correct choice in the following sentence: The strong coffee has a powerful (affect/effect) on me.
What is "effect"?
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