Parts of Speech
A part of speech that describes a noun or pronoun
Adjective
What is the best way to improve your reading skills?
Continue Reading
What should you do if you are reading and come across a word you don't know the meaning of?
Look it up
Where can you go for help with assignments when you are struggling in any of your classes?
The Learning Center
A sentence that is missing either a subject or verb, or does not express a complete thought.
Fragment
What part of speech is italicized in the following sentence?
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed a law that made it easier for African Americans to vote in U.S. elections.
Noun
True/False
It is important to take notes while reading a paragraph/paper?
True
Where can you look for the definition of a word?
Dictionary
What is the email address you should email if you are in need of something (ex. food, financial help, etc.)?
need@roanestate.edu
What is a semicolon used for?
To combine two independent clauses
A part of speech that describes a verb, adjective, or adverb
Adverb
A good way to find mistakes in a paragraph, even though you might sound silly doing it.
Reading it out loud
Where can you look for synonyms of a word?
Thesaurus
Where should you go for help locating sources (books or internet)?
The Library
Punctuation used to show a separation of ideas or elements within the structure of a sentence; additionally, in numbers, dates and letter writing after the salutation and closing
Comma
A part of speech that describes the distance/placement/proximity of one word to another word in a sentence
Preposition
A phrase on the accuplacer, meaning "based on the words around it"
What is a good way to improve vocabulary?
Read and look up the words you don't know
What should you do if you are unsure of an assignment or how to complete it?
Ask your professor
Ask someone in the Learning Center
Squared off notations used for technical explanations or to calrify meaning. If you remove the information in them, the sentence will still make sense
Brackets
What part of speech is italicized in the following sentence?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 put an end to voter discrimination.
Adjective
What is the first sentence of a paragraph? What does it tell you?
Topic Sentence
The main idea of the paragraph
Name one of the words that you learned yesterday and state the definition
Answer will differ for each student
The President of Roane State
Dr. Chris Whaley
Punctuation used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case or the plurals of lowercase letters
Apostrophe