The purpose of writing used for a campaign to encourage people to stop smoking.
What is persuasive?
100
The sentence label (letter and number) for the thesis statement.
What is A5?
100
The prepositional phrases in the following sentence:
Mark went to the store at the end of the day.
What is "to the store," "at the end," and "of the day?"
100
"Waiting for the movie to start" is an example of this.
What is a fragment?
200
The step of the writing process that is also called drafting.
What is composing?
200
The purpose of writing used to give information about different types of clouds.
What is informative?
200
The sentence label for the third sentence of the second paragraph.
What is B3?
200
Two types of verbs.
What are action/linking/being/helping verbs?
200
"I wanted to go I couldn't go" is an example of this.
What is a run on?
300
The step of the writing process that involves adding and deleting words, fixing organization, and upgrading vocabulary. It also means "re-seeing."
What is revising?
300
The type of writing used to tell a story about a scary Halloween night.
What is entertaining?
300
A specific description of C1.
What is the "topic sentence of the second Body paragraph C?"
300
The subject in the following sentence:
The craft table in the kitchen was brown and wobbly.
What is table?
300
Two ways to fix a comma splice.
What is separate the sentences with a period, semi-colon, or add a conjunction?
400
The step of the writing process that involves fixing punctuation, capitalization, and other grammatical errors.
What is editing/proofreading?
400
A real life example of persuasive writing.
What is a newspaper article encouraging people to recycle?
(answers will vary)
400
All three topic sentence labels in the Body of an essay.
What are B1, C1, and D1?
400
The verb of the following sentence:
Mary should have taken four classes this semester.
What is "should have taken?"
400
An example of a compound sentence.
What is (answers will vary)?
500
Three techniques for pre-writing.
What are journal writing, clustering, branching (idea mapping, brainstorming)?
500
A real life example of entertaining writing and informative writing.
What is "Twilight" and an encyclopedia article about vampires?
(answers will vary)
500
Two sentences that begin and end the most memorably in an essay/paper.
What is A1 (attention-getter) and E5 (clincher)?
500
The subject and verb in the following sentence:
The rain from the dark clouds chilled and soaked the cheering fans as they watched the football game.
What is rain (subject) and chilled/soaked (verb)?
500
An example of a compound AND complex sentence.
What is "Bob ate a hot dog, and he still felt hungry." (compound)
"Even though Bob ate a hot dog, he still felt hungry."
(complex)?
(answers will vary)