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CH 1
Getting Started
CH 2
Parts of Speech
CH 3
Finding the Subject & Verb
CH 4
Making the Subject & Verb Agree
CH 5
Common Errors Involving Verbs
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Types of papers you will write in college
What are "reports, essays, and term papers"? (Page 1)
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The eight parts of speech.
What are nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections? (Page 12)
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The three kinds of verbs that suggest activity, time relationships, and connections.
What are action verbs, linking verbs, and helping verbs? (Pages 44-50)
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Agreement in number.
What is meant by "a singular subject takes a singular verb and a plural subject takes a plural verb"? (Page 70)
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Verbs that form the past and past participle by adding -d or -ed.
What are regular verbs? (Page 92)
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"Once you leave college, you will find a growing link between a worker's writing skills" and what? (which is why you take this class)
What are "a worker's writing skills and his/her earning power"? (Page 1)
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A common noun
What names a non-specific person, place, thing, or idea? (Page 13)
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This is a verb form with the word "to."
What is an infinitive? (Page 48-49)
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Adding this makes a noun plural . . . but . . . makes a present tense verb singular.
What is "adding an -s or -es to [a] noun . . . , but adding -s or -es to a verb in the present tense makes the verb singular"? (Page 71)
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The past tense of rise.
What is rose?
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Avoiding errors constitutes good writing and so do three other considerations.
What is interesting, coherent, and correct writing? (Page 3)
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These take the place of nouns.
What are pronouns? (Page 14)
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"Athletes and celebrities are frequently seen on television." The subject _____________________ is (are) a noun(s).
What are athletes and celebrities? (Page 52)
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Indefinite pronouns
What pronouns do "not refer to a specific thing or person"?
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Proper verb tenses help orient the reader in ___________.
What is time? (Page 98)
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The kinds of things that make interesting openings to good paragraphs.
What are personal anecdotes, questions, quotes, "what if?" scenes or situations, and surprising statements? (Pages 8-9)
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These (specify) modify nouns/pronouns and these (specify) modify verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
What are adjectives (nouns/pronouns) and adverbs (verbs, adj, adv)?
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The preferred verb form that Marge harped on all semester.
What is an active verb?
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"Subjects connected by AND or by BOTH . . . AND require a _________ verb."
What is a plural verb? (Page 73)
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The errors writers make when they do not use the tense of verbs consistently.
What are shifts in time? (Page 104)
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Things that make good closings to paragraphs...
What are facts, quotations, rhetorical questions, asking the reader to do something, or predictions? (Page 10)
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These are connecting words that exist to show relationships between other words.
What are prepositions? (Page 24)
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NOTE THE CAPITALIZED WORDS and name their parts of speech: "Thousands OF TOURISTS FROM COUNTRIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD visit Chesapeake Bay IN MARYLAND."
What are prepositional phrases? (Page 56)
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These five are ALWAYS plural indefinite pronouns.
What are BOTH, SEVERAL, OTHERS, FEW, MANY? (Page 76)
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When writing a paragraph based on the __________________, writers have to give signals to the readers to indicate the progression of their ideas, using words like "consequently, thus, therefore, as a result, in the end, finally, and most important "
What is order of importance? (Page 118)