Modifiers
Identify the type of modifier (misplaced, dangling, or squinting) used in this sentence or phrase: I almost spent all of my money.
What is a squinting modifier?
Identify the verb that is used in the wrong tense:
This morning I made breakfast, I cried, and I was smoking a cigarette.
What is smoking?
Name 2 of the 3 requirements for a sentence to be considered complete.
What are, it has a sentence, a predicate, and it expresses a complete thought.
A run on sentence has at least two complete thoughts but lacks the necessary what between each of the thoughts?
What is punctuation?
True or false, transitional words and phrases are used only to compare unlike nouns.
What is false.
Identify the type of modifier (misplaced, dangling, or squinting) used in the sentence or phrase:
The dark surface of the street-sign was almost missed as the unicorn flew over the mountain.
What is a dangling modifier?
Re-word this sentence to make more sense:
Smoking this rock can result in pain, death, and a case of the sniffles.
What is, smoking this rock can result in a case of the sniffles, pain, and death?
True or False, there are acceptable times to use sentence fragments.
What is true? (Short story or novel, when you are quoting someone, in a bulleted or numbered list, or to make a quick point so long as it does not confuse the reader)
What type of splice is another form of run-on sentence as found in your grammar book?
What is a comma splice?
_____ writers rely on the use of transitional words and phrases.
What is good?
_______ modifiers are words or phrases that you put in the wrong place.
What are misplaced modifiers.
True or false, using parallelism means that you write most of the similar parts of a sentence in the same way.
False, you write all of the similar parts of a sentence in the same way.
What is missing to make this a complete sentence:
Rover ran.
What is nothing?
A _____ sentence occurs when two or more sentences are fused together without punctuation?
What is a fused sentence?
Name at least 1 of the classifying connectors.
Addition/Sequence, concession, contrast, examples, clarification, emphasis, place or direction, purpose/ cause and effect, qualification, result, similarity, summary or conclusion, time