Parts of Speech
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
The two parts of a complete sentence.
What are subject and predicate?
The sentence below is missing this punctuation mark.
I took my dog on a walk before dinner
What is a period?
What is informative writing?
This punctuation mark is used after a greeting in a business letter, when writing the time, and to introduce a list.
What is a colon?
A word that joins together words, phrases, or clauses of equal importance.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
A sentence type that connects two independent clauses with a comma and a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
The sentence below is missing this.
I love pizza and I love burgers.
What is a comma (after pizza)?
A word or phrase used at the beginning of a sentence to move from one idea to the next.
What is a transition word or phrase?
This acronym is a strategy that is used to answer short-answer questions.
What is A.C.E - Answer, Cite evidence, Explain evidence?
A word located at the beginning of a dependent clause.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
A type of clause that makes sense on its own. A complete thought.
What is an independent clause?
The sentence below is missing this punctuation mark.
June likes fruit however, she does not like grapes.
What is a semicolon (after fruit)?
In the introductory paragraph of argumentative writing, the author writes background information and this statement.
What is an opinion statement or claim?
A conversation between two or more characters in a story is the definition of this word.
What is dialogue?
A word that describes or modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
A type of clause that does not make sense on its own; only part of a complete thought.
What is a dependent clause?
The sentence below is missing these punctuation marks.
Danny said, We need to get to our next class.
What are quotation marks ("We... next class.")?
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution are the parts of this in narrative writing.
What is a plot?
Taking credit for or copying another person's work.
What is plagiarism?
A word that replaces a noun in the sentence to avoid repeating the person, place, or thing.
What is a pronoun?
A sentence type that contains both an independent clause and a dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
In the sentence below, this punctuation mark is in the wrong place.
The crossing guard yelled, "Stop"!
What is the exclamation point?
The prompt below should be answered using this genre of writing.
"Prompt: Read the first two chapters, then write chapter three to continue the story."
What is narrative writing?
The specific person, place, or thing that pronouns refer to in a sentence.
Example - The word cafeteria in this sentence: "The cafeteria has its floors cleaned every day."
What is an antecedent?