This tells who or what a sentence is about and is always a noun.
What is the subject?
100
This sentence states the main idea of a paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
100
If you want your subject and verb to agree, you would use a plural verb with this type of subject.
What is plural?
100
In the sentence "We watched president Obama give a speech on television last night.", this word needs to be capitalized.
What is President?
100
According to your textbook, this is the number of paragraphs needed for the ideal essay; not to short and not too long.
What is five?
200
This type of sentence is formed when you combine two or more independent clauses using a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
200
These type of statements contain details that support the main idea.
What are supporting details?
200
A collective noun, such as "committee", is a word that refers to a group of people or things. When deciding between singular or plural, it is always this.
What is singular?
200
Use this type of punctuation in a sentence that lists items in a series.
What is a comma?
200
On a piece of scratch paper, you can do this to try to organize your thoughts before you start to write your essay.
What is brainstorming?
300
The sentence "Amber went to the movies with her friends afterwards they went out to dinner they had a great time." is a group of incorrectly joined clauses, making this type of sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
300
This is when you would want to start a new paragraph.
What is when the main idea changes?
300
You can change a regular verb from present tense to past tense by adding -ed, but you can't with this type of verb.
What is irregular?
300
I can add this to the end of "John" to show that something belongs to him.
What is an apostrophe and "s" ('s).
300
These are the three parts of an essay.
What are the introduction, body, and conclusion?
400
Changing these words will make the sentence "I hunted, searched, and was begging for an apartment." have correct parallel structure.
What is "was begging" to "begged"?
400
This type of paragraph is found at the end of an essay and restates the information that is in the introduction.
What is the conclusion?
400
You can change the verb "graduate" to this by making it a past tense verb.
What is graduated?
400
This is a word formed from two words that are combined and shortened by leaving out letters.
What is a contraction?
400
This is a type of brainstorming that organizes thoughts into bubbles.
What is a mind map, or an idea map?
500
The seven coordinating conjunctions.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
500
Use these types of words or phrases when you want signal the relationship from one idea to the next. For example: in other words, in the first place, or for example.
What are transitions?
500
I can use this type of word in place of a noun, because no one wants to hear me say "I went to Sally's house and picked Sally up so I could go to the party with Sally."
What is a pronoun?
500
These are words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings, and should be used very carefully. For example, "would" and "wood" are these.
What are homonyms?
500
You should always do this after you are finished writing your essay.