If you confuse words, this is something you should do for yourself ensure correct use.
What is develop a personal list?
100
This will NOT ensure perfect spelling on all your computer-generated papers.
What is a SPELL CHECKER?
100
When separating items in a list, what is the order of using commas?
What is using a comma after each item in the series, including the last item in the series, which usually has AND before it?
100
Apostrophes have two uses. Name them.
What are indicating ownership and indicating contractions?
100
These punctuation marks always appear in pairs.
What are quotation marks?
200
Fill in the blanks: The coin machine wil __________ any coins _______ foreign ones.
What is ACCEPT - EXCEPT?
200
Your textbook tells you and your instructor has told you several times to use THIS technique when you edit your papers to make certain you have no mistakes.
What is reading your paper backward, one word at a time.
200
Adjectives that independently modify the same noun are separated by commas. These adjectives are called this.
What are coordinate adjectives?
200
Tell me the contraction for WOULD HAVE.
What is WOULD'VE?
200
This is a rule of capitalization for direct quotes.
What is CAPITALIZE THE FIRST WORD?
300
Fill in the blanks: ___________ going to arrive ________ late, but they will bring all _____________ tools.
What is THEY'RE - THERE - THEIR?
300
Your text lists this many spelling rules for you to learn in order to become a better speller.
What is SIX? PAGES 552-554
300
Words, phrases, and clauses that start sentences ALWAYS get commas. This is what these words, phrases, and clauses are called.
What are INTRODUCTORY ELEMENTS?
300
To show ownership, add this to a singular noun.
What is 'S?
300
This is what to do if you have a quotation within another quotation.
What is put single quotation marks around the quotation within a quotation, so readers understand who said what.
400
We have ________ much confusion in our department, so ___________ supervisors have been asked _________ perform the same job.
What is TOO - TWO - TO?
400
If you usually misspell certain words, you could consult this type of list.
What is a COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS list?
400
Commas also set off words that come directly before or after the noun or pronoun and renames the noun or pronoun. these words are called this.
What are APPOSITIVES?
400
Never use an apostrophe with this kind of pronoun.
What is a personal pronoun?
400
This is where quotation marks go in INDIRECT quotes.
What is NOWHERE?
500
Fill in the blanks: Everyone thinks ___________ going to get a perfect score on __________ final exam.
What is YOU'RE - YOUR?
500
Recite the followin line: "I before E, except after C..."
What is "Or when sounded like A as in NEIGHBOR or WEIGH"?
500
Words that act as an "aside" or interrupt the flow of a sentence but DO NOT change the meaning of the sentence are called THIS.
What are interrupters?
500
Fill in the blanks: ITS shows ______________; it's means _______________.
What is OWNERSHIP / IT IS?
500
These are the kinds of titles that get quotation marks.
What are short works such as magazine/newspaper articles, chapter titles in books, essays, songs, or poems?