Ways to Write Sentences
A sentence with one subject and one predicate.
What is a simple sentence?
The most important sentence in an essay.
What is the thesis statement?
An example of the correct way to use a period in this sentence: Jamie went to a concert and lost her phone
What is Jamie went to a concert and lost her phone(.)
MLA stands for...
What is Modern Language Association?
A sentence with one subject and two predicates.
What is a simple sentence?
The purpose of body paragraphs.
What is to explain and support a claim?
The semi-colon super comma is used...
Lead-in plus quotation plus parenthetical citation.
What is a standard in-text citation?
A sentence with a comma and conjunction separating two complete clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
The first and last sentence in body paragraphs have this role.
What are to introduce and summarize the paragraph's claim?
A person, place, thing, or idea (or the subject of a sentence).
What are nouns and pronouns?
The role of a quote in a paragraph.
What is to provide further explanation that supports my claim?
A sentence with fragment or dependent clause connected to a complete clause that may or may not include a comma.
What is a complex sentence?
The first and fifth paragraphs are structured contrarily, but they do the same job.
What are the introduction and conclusion paragraphs?
The two yellow lines in the road but used in a sentence to make equal content.
What is parallel construction?
The quotation goes in the body paragraph.
What is in the middle of the body paragraph?
A sentence with two or more fragments and two or more complete clauses that might be connected using commas or transitional words or phrases.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
The acronym of a five-paragraph essay.
What is H.O.T. for the introduction, P.E.E.L. for the body paragraph, and R.A.C. for the conclusion?
The part of speech with two roles.
What is a verb?
A quotation added to an original sentence.
What is an embedded quotation?