Parts of Speech
think, reveal, hide, leave
A sentence must have these two "parts" in order to be complete.
What is a subject and a verb?
Elie Wiesel is transported from his home to this concentration camp.
What is Auschwitz?
When you include information from a source (that is not your original thought), you must ________ it!
What is CITE?
What is the capitol of California?
What is Sacramento?
Mr. Sears, Mitchell's Ice-Cream, Shaker Heights Middle School . . .
(be specific)
What are Proper Nouns?
Refers to unnecessary repetition in a sentence.
What is redundancy?
Amari meets this woman at Cape Coast Castle and remains close to her until the auction at Charles Town.
Who is Afi?
Mrs. Lambert despises it when students use these types of words in formal writing:
"lots, stuff, things, kids, etc."
What is slang?
Who is the current governor of Ohio?
Who is Mike DeWine?
is, are, becomes, looks, seems
What is a linking verb?
The Boston Celtics were beaten by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Change this passive voice sentence to an active voice sentence.
What is "The Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Boston Celtics."
What is the Derbyshire Plantation's main crop?
What is rice?
This is the most important sentence of a 5 paragraph essay and includes a topic, a claim, and two or three broad reasons to support the claim.
What is a thesis?
What is the zip code of Shaker Heights Middle School?
What is 44122?
both/and, either/or, neither/nor, not only/ but also
What are correlative conjunctions?
I love fishing, skiing and rock-climbing.
Because the pattern of words all "line up" (all the words are gerunds), this sentence is in correct ____ _____.
What is parallel structure?
This character tries to warn the Jews of Sighet about the horrors of what happened to the foreign Jews he was with on the deportation trains. Many people ignored him and thought he was crazy.
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
In a persuasive (or argumentative) essay, THESE TWO additional elements must be included in addition to the introduction/thesis, body paragraphs (x,y reasons), and concluding paragraph.
What is a counterargument and rebuttal?
This reality TV star is the youngest on Forbes' list of America's wealthiest self-made women.
Who is Kylie Jenner?
Answers the questions: Where? When? How? To what extent?
What is an adverb?
Take your seat!
What is the subject of the above sentence?
What is "You?" (Implied)
In Night, Juliek played a mournful melody on his violin by this composer the night before he dies.
Who is Beethoven?
In our school district, we use MLA format for formal writing. What does the acronym MLA stand for?
What is Modern Language Association?
The best selling album of all time.
What is THRILLER