Come to an Agreement
Familiar Words
Paragraph Patterns
Grammar Rules
Make it Plural
100
A pronoun must agree in person and number with this.
What is its antecedent?
100
This is useful during the writing process: whenever you have trouble finding a topic, you can use specific techniques to generate ideas.
What is exploring or prewriting?
100
If you write this type of paragraph, you might tell as story about something that happened.
What is a narrative paragraph?
100
A paragraph should have this, which means that all of its sentences must relate directly to its topic sentence.
What is unity?
100
It's the spelling of the plural for the word "baby."
What is b-a-b-i-e-s?
200
The pronoun that best fits in the sentence below. "The committee will report _________ findings by Thursday."
What is its?
200
This is what you are writing about. When your instructor gives you one of these, you can narrow it to suit your interests.
What is a topic?
200
When you write this type of paragraph, you prove your point using specific examples.
What is an illustration paragraph?
200
It's the final step of the five key steps in the revising and editing stages.
What is to edit for technical errors?
200
It's the spelling of the plural for the word "deer."
What is d-e-e-r?
300
It is the sentence below with an error. 1-We have a problem: ten twenty-dollar bills is missing. 2-Two hundred dollars is a lot of money!
What is the first sentence?
300
This is your intended reader. For many college assignments, this person is also your instructor.
What is audience?
300
When you write this type of paragraph, you describe a place or person using vivid details and images.
What is a description paragraph?
300
In a sentence that expresses a command, such as "Please close that window," the subject is this.
What is an "understood" you.
300
It's the spelling for the plural of the word "alumnus."
What is a-l-u-m-n-i ?
400
It is the sentence below that is CORRECT. 1-A couple of people was late for the wedding. 2-Despite the tardiness of their friends, the now newly married couple is happy.
What is sentence #2?
400
This sentence brings the paragraph to a satisfactory close.
What is the concluding sentence?
400
When you write this type of paragraph, you explain how to do something or how something works.
What is a process paragraph?
400
It is the preposition for the blank in the sentence below. "Instead of going out to dinner tonight, let's just stay _______ home."
What is "at?"
400
It's the spelling for the singular version of "media."
What is m-e-d-i-u-m ?
500
It is the form of the "be" verb that is grammatically correct for the following sentence. "Little is happening because neither of my friends ____ here."
What is "is?"
500
This is an essential part of the topic sentence because it makes a point about the topic. it expresses the writer's opinion, attitude, or feeling.
What is the controlling idea?
500
This is the organizational pattern for a process paragraph.
What is time order?
500
Words such as "each," "everybody," "everything," "nobody," and "no one," are considered this.
What is singular?
500
It's the plural for mother-in-law.
What is mothers-in-law.
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