The person, place, thing, or idea that the sentence is ABOUT.
The subject.
100
Choose the correct verb for the following sentence:
"Either the girls or their mom (pay/pays) for their lunch
pays
100
What type of punctuation is missing from the following sentence:
Jerry went to the store to buy several items apples, bananas, peanut butter, and cereal.
A colon after buy.
100
What type of faulty logic is "Join the millions who are retiring online?"
Bandwagon.
200
After you underline the key words in the questions, what step do you take?
Underline clues in the text and number them to match the questions.
200
When you join two complete sentences together, what do you need to add to them?
a comma and a conjunction (FANBOY)
200
Where does the apostrophe go in the sentence?
The girls favorite song was by Miley Cyrus. They love it so much.
girls'
200
What type of punctutation is needed in the sentence?
The girls eat pizza every day they aren't skinny because of it.
semicolon ;
200
What type of faulty logic attempts to persuade their audience by intimidating them, or instilling a feeling of being scared within them?
Appeal to Fear
300
Aside from underlining and numbering the clues, what else should you be doing to the text?
Annotating and circling unfamiliar words.
300
Name the subject and the verb in the following sentence:
"The student was proud of his essay."
Subject: Student
Verb: Was
300
Where does the apostrophe belong in the following sentence:
Alexis best subject is math; she always gets an A on her report card.
Alexis'
300
Write the appositive with the comma(s) where necessary.
Ashley Johnson my best friend always has the best parties.
Ashley Johnson, my best friend, always has the best parties.
300
What type of faulty reasoning attempts to persuade the audience by using celebrities or well-known public figures to promote something?
Testimonial
400
What is the final step in the inference strategy?
Answer the question!
400
Choose the correct PRONOUN for the following sentence:
Each of the girls carries (her/their) books to school.
her
400
When discussing pronoun-antecedent agreement, are companies, organizations, department and schools SINGULAR or PLURAL?
Singular.
400
Write the appositive with the comma(s) where necessary.
We went swimming in Lake Michigan the coldest lake in the city.
We went swimming in Lake Michigan, the coldest lake in the city.
400
What type of faulty reasoning attempts to persuade the audience by making them feel a certain way (happy, mad, sad etc.)?
Appeal to Emotion
500
If this was an aims question which words would you underline as "key words?"
What logical inference can be made about Kate's feelings about animals?
feelings AND animals
500
Choose the correct PRONOUN for the following sentence:
"Neither the cat nor the dog ate (Its/Their) food this morning."
Its
500
Where does the apostrophe go in the following sentence?:
Chris and Kimberly are the best players on the schools soccer team.
school's
500
What is the dependent clause in the compound sentence?
If I stop for coffee, I will be late for school
If I stop for coffee
500
What type of faulty logic is "People should not jaywalk because my cousin did it once and got hit by a car so she can never walk again."