Grammar
A group of words that contains a subject and a verb but does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
This sentence contains the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs.
What is the topic sentence?
It is the most common phoneme in the English language.
What is the schwa?
Tense in English that connects a past event or action to the present, describing unspecified past times, actions that continue into the present, repeated actions within an ongoing period, or completed actions with present results.
What is the Present Perfect?
The specific group of people the speaker intends to reach and persuade.
What is the audience?
It refers to the emphasis placed on a specific syllable within a word or a specific word within a sentence.
What is stress?
A group of two or more words that acts like a single noun within a sentence, containing a head noun (the main noun) and at least one modifier.
What is a noun phrase?
In this type of essay, the writer takes a stand for or against a controversial topic.
What is an argumentative essay?
It is the smooth connection between the sound at the end of one word and the sound at the beginning of the next word when we speak.
What is linking?
The core word in a sentence that expresses the action or state of being of the subject.
What is the main verb?
This method persuades by tapping into the audience's feelings, encouraging them to side with the speaker or take a specific action.
What is pathos?
It describes how the speech organs (tongue, lips, teeth, palate) manipulate the flow of air to produce different consonant sounds.
What is manner of articulation?
A dependent clause that modifies a noun or pronoun, providing additional information about it.
What is an adjectival clause?
This common fallacy attacks the person making the argument instead of the argument itself.
What is Ad Hominem / personal attack?
It is one of the specific, slightly different ways that a phoneme is actually pronounced in different contexts.
What is an allophone?