Parts of Speech: Part 1
Word used in place of a noun like he, she, it, they, etc.
pronoun
What is a word that is used to describe a noun or pronoun?
adjective
What type of clause cannot stand alone?
dependent clause
A ______ is an incomplete thought? (fragment, comma splice, run-on)
fragment
Taking the words and ideas of others and trying to pass them off as your own is _____________.
plagiarism
What shows actions or links ideas?
verb
What joins words, phrases, or clauses?
conjunction
A group of words that have a subject and a verb
clause
What is it called when you have two or more independent clauses fused together with no punctuation? (fragment, comma splice, run-on)
run-on
What type of plagiarism occurs when you take a paper or essay and simply add your name even though you did not write it.
copying
What is a word placed before a noun or pronoun to form a phrase modifying another word in the sentence?
preposition
What is a word used to modify or describe a verb, anadjective, or another adverb?
Adverb
What type of sentence has one independent clause and at least one dependent clause?
complex
Identify the sentence error:
Mary went to the grocery store she bought ingredients for spaghetti.
run-on
What does MLA stand for?
What is a word used to express emotion?
interjection
What part of speech is but in the following sentence:
They tried to arrive on time, but they ended up being late.
conjunction
What type of clause can stand alone because it is a complete sentence?
dependent clause
What is it called when you have two independent clauses that are joined by nothing but a comma?
Independent clause, independent clause.
comma splice
When formatting a paper using MLA, do you double-space it?
Yes
What is is a person, place, thing, or idea?
noun
What part of speech is quickly in the following sentence:
The sun quickly disappeared behind the clouds.
Adverb
What type of sentence has at least two independent clauses?
compound
Identify the sentence error:
The dog barking at the window.
fragment
True or False: Entries that appear on the works cited page are alphabetized by the author's last name. If there is no author, you alphabetize by the first significant word of the titel
True