Usage
Types of Writing
6 Traits of Writing
Verbs
Vocab
100
The woman IN THE CAR in my grandma.
What is a prepositional phrase?
100
Instructions telling how to use your cell phone.
What is expository writing?
100
Tells you to stick to the topic and add lots of details.
What is Idea Development?
100
I'm glad we did not (loose, lose) the directions.
What is lose?
100
In the winter, the price of tomatoes (elicits, appeases, escalates, absolves) while their quality goes down.
What is escalates?
200
We WERE WINNING the game until our star was injured.
What is a verb phrase?
200
An essay convincing people to recycle.
What is persuasive writing?
200
Tells you to correct all grammar, usage, and mechanics errors.
What is conventions?
200
Please find your seat and (set, sit) in it!
What is sit?
200
As a(n) (deterrent, acclaim, innovation, inference) to stealing, the company requires its employees to wear uniforms without pockets.
What is deterrent?
300
HOLDING HER BREATH, the girl swam across the pool.
What is a participle phrase?
300
A story about your best day ever.
What is narrative writing?
300
Tells you to use paragraphs and transition words.
What is organization?
300
Do you mind if I (sit, set) my books on your desk?
What is set?
300
Measles remains a serious (blight, plagiarism, qualm, prerequisite) killing over a million people a year.
What is blight?
400
BECAUSE I FORGOT MY LUNCH MONEY, I starved all afternoon.
What is a subordinate (or dependent) clause?
400
A complaint to a company about a product.
What is business letter?
400
Tells you to use specific nouns and vivid verbs.
What is word choice?
400
Either the mother or the father (hold, holds) the baby.
What is holds.
400
In becoming a priest, Brian certainly (deviated, improvised, simulated, divulged) from his plan to be a stockbroker.
What is deviated?
500
In the morning before the bell, THE TEACHERS get ready for the rush of students.
What is the subject?
500
An essay telling about what your house looks like.
What is descriptive writing?
500
Tells you to use different types and lengths of sentences.
What is sentence fluency?
500
"Oranges" (tell, tells) a story in poetic form.
What is tells?
500
In irregular bursts of energy, dying stars give off (virile, intermittent, congenial, flippant) radio signals.
What is intermittent?
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