Composition
Nouns
Verbs
Verbals
Definitions
100
A summary should be no longer than how much of the length of the original?
What is one-third.
100
The person, place, thing, or idea that the sentence is centered on (the topic).
What is the subject?
100
The three types of verbs.
What is action, linking, and helping?
100
The three types of verbals.
What are participles, gerunds, and infinitives?
100
A group of words.
What is a phrase?
200
Every sentence is related to the topic sentence.
What is unity?
200
Noun in the predicate that follows a linking verb and renames the subject.
What is a predicate nominative?
200
Verb tense that is preceded by have, has, or had.
What is perfect tense?
200
Verbal that functions as a noun and ends in -ing.
What is a gerund?
200
A group of words that contains a subject and verb but cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
300
Think, Plan, Write, Edit, Rewrite
What is the writing process?
300
Noun in the predicate that follows an action verb and answers the questions whom or what.
What is a direct object?
300
Having two verbs in one sentence.
What is a compound verb?
300
Verbal that functions as an adjective and ends in -d, -ed, -t, -en, -ing.
What is a participle?
300
A group of words that contains a subject and a verb that may or may not stand on its own as a sentence.
What is a clause?
400
This and the Library of Congress System are the two main systems of library classification.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
400
Preceeds a Direct Object and Answers the questions: to whom, for whom, to what, and for what.
What is an indirect object?
400
Tense using words such as do, does, or did to emphasize a point or action.
What is emphatic tense?
400
Verbal that functions as an adjective, adverb, or noun and always follows the word "to."
What is an infinitive?
400
In diagrams, the type of line that comes before a direct object.
What is a straight line?
500
Types of Outlines
What are Topic and Sentence?
500
Follows a noun and identifies or renames the noun.
What is an appositive?
500
Tense/Form using ing and meaning to continue an action that has already started.
What is progressive form?
500
Where the verbal phrase (gerund, participle, or infinitive phrase) ends.
What is the verb or a punctuation mark?
500
Must contain a preposition and the object of the preposition.
What is a prepositional phrase?
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