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What two common punctuation marks respectively indicate an interrogative sentence and an exclamatory sentence?
What is a question mark and an exclamation mark?
This member of the Writing Center has a pet dog who we all know the name of.
Who is Jaci?
These two essential parts of a sentence must agree in number, i.e. plural or singular.
What are Subject and Verb?
What is the equator?
What is wrong with this sentence?
"The beautifully flowers are blooming."
Adjective-Adverb Confusion: "Beautifully" is an adverb and can only modify verbs. The sentence could read "The beautiful flowers..." or "...are blooming beautifully."
This troublesome punctuation mark has many uses, like separating items in a list and setting off introductory phrases, but often gets over used.
What is a comma?
Beautiful locks and loughs. Bri met this multi-platinum artist in an international airport.
Who is Hozier?
Even though they share beginning letters and sounds, these two parts of speech respectively describe nouns and verbs, and are very different.
What are Adjectives and Adverbs?
"An object at rest stays at rest" is part of this English physicist's laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
What is wrong with this sentence?
"Doctor, I needs help with my case of the flu."
Subject-Verb Agreement: "Doctor, I need help..."
This punctuation mark joins two related independent clauses, and is often thrown into essays by students to look fancy.
What is a semicolon.
Beep beep! You may have spotted this tutor driving in her yellow Nissan Juke prior to this summer.
Who is Maria?
This common grammar mistake occurs when you use a comma to separate two independent clauses.
What is a Comma Splice?
Where you lead, I will follow. Carole King sings the theme song to this popular early 2000s television series.
What is Gilmore Girls?
What is wrong with this sentence?
"What was you're answer?"
Improper Use of "You're": "You're" is a contraction for "You are," while "your" is a possessive pronoun. The sentence should read "What was your answer?"
This punctuation mark and accompanying letter would be used to indicate possession, as in for proper nouns like the names James and Phyllis.
What is " 's "
Akin to his interest in medieval literature, this old school hobby of Clay's might make him very useful in a village during the Middle Ages.
What is blacksmithing?
Confusing as they may seem, this classification of verbs are all spelled the same, even though they have opposite meanings, as in "cleaved unto" and "cleaved in half" or "sanction" as a punishment and "sanction" as permission.
What are Contranyms?
This holy site is the smallest country in the world by area.
What is Vatican City?
What is wrong with this sentence?
"Clay singed in the homecoming pageant."
Irregular Verbs: "sing" is an irregular verb, and therefore would have the past tense "sang."
This controversial punctuation mark might be used by some to separate the penultimate item in a list from its conjunction.
What is the Oxford, or Serial, Comma?
This member of the Writing Center was the Fast Trac Car Wash Employee of the Month in April of 2018.
Who is Tucker?
These are idiomatic phrases consisting of a verb and another element, typically an adverb, a preposition, or both, that often changes the meaning of the verb, as in "cheer up" or "come on."
What are Phrasal Verbs?
This bone, whose name is hilariously close to a common office supply, is the smallest bone in the body.
What is the Stapes Bone (it's in your ear)?
What is wrong with this sentence, even though it is an unofficial rule?
"Clifford is a German, red, big, dog."
Adjective Order: While an unofficial rule, adjectives that do not follow an unspoken order (determiner, opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose) feel awkward.
"...big, red, German dog."