Legislative Branch
This body of congress has 100 members (2 from each state), and they serve 6-year terms.
What is the senate?
Grammatical error missing a subject or predicate... kind of like this statement.
What is a fragment?
True or False: Executive Orders give the president unchecked power to anything they want.
What is False. Executive Orders can be reviewed and overturned by the courts.
Also known as "the point of no return."
What is the climax of a story?
There are currently this many Supreme Court Justices.
What is 9?
This is what congress debates and votes on to determine if it will be come a law.
What is a bill?
Some of these errors Go under the radar because they don't have anything to Do with Proper Nouns.
What are capitalization errors?
The president can pardon people for ______ crimes.
What are federal?
When an author gives the reader a clue about what will happen later in the story, they are using ______.
What is foreshadow?
The SCOTUS reviews previous cases, making it an _______ court.
What is "appellate?"
The House of Representatives is the body of congress that sends a proportionate amount of representatives per state based on its population. There are a total of _____ representatives.
What is 435?
If you don't have this, who knows if the statement or question is actually coming to an end
What is end punctuation?
True or False: If congress does not pass a bill, the president can overrule that and get the bill passed.
What is false? The president signs bills that pass congress, and cannot force the passage of a bill.
The part of a story that introduces characters and setting is call ______.
What is the "exposition?"
Supreme Court Justices hold their job for ______ (how long)?
What is for life, or until they decide to retire?
This body of congress has the power to impeach federal officials, including the president.
What is the House of Representatives?
Even though I have multiple clauses put together it doesn't mean I have a well-constructed sentence it may need additional punctuation for it to be grammatically correct.
What is a run-on?
It takes _____ Electoral College votes for a person to win the presidency.
What is 270?
Authors use colors or setting or any number of other things to suggest a sort of hidden meaning. This is known as ______.
What is "symbolism?"
This person is the longest-tenured Justice on the SCOTUS.
Who is Clarence Thomas?
True of False: If the president is impeached, a 3/4 majority vote in the Senate is required to have the president removed.
What is False? A 2/3 majority is required.
Am I a comma splice?
Because of the greater talent level and experience, the 49ers defeated the Miami Dolphins yesterday.
What is no? The opening clause is dependent, so the comma is required there, and no additional conjunction is needed.
True or False: Since the president can appoint federal judges, the president may also fire federal judges.
What is false? Appoint - yes. Fire - no.
An underlying truth or lesson that a book is conveying to its reader is its _____.
What is "theme?"
The current court has a majority of Justices appointed by Republican presidents. There are currently __ Republican-appointed Justices, and ___ Democratic-appointed Justices.
What are 6R and 3D?