Grammar
What makes a sentence compound?
two independent clauses
An online blog post about current events.
Reliable or Unreliable source?
Unreliable
When the other moms heard about how Charlene had won the baking contest, her email box was flooded with inquiries for her award winning muffin recipe.
What does the word inquiry mean?
What is seek information?
What is it called when a character speaks?
dialogue
What are transition words?
What type of sentence is:
The enormous yellow sunflowers in the field waved at the cars.
Simple
The process of looking up information to establish facts of a topic.
As Tommy walked home after a large fight with his best friend, powerful feelings of remorse bubbled in his stomach.
What does the word remorse mean?
What is regret?
The sentence at the beginning of a paragraph that tells what the paragraph will be about.
What is the topic statement?
Important information is given from the article to strengthen a topic.
What is a citation?
Find the spelling error:
Do I need to seperate you?
Separate
A first hand account of an event...
Reliable or Unreliable source?
Reliable source.
Jeremiah joked around so much that when he told the others about the accident that had occurred, they didn’t believe that he was being earnest.
What does earnest mean?
What is serious?
A short story written with animals that have human like characters. It has a moral in the story
What is a fable?
The final sentence of the introduction. This sentence gives you the topic and opinion of the essay.
What is the thesis?
What does an adjective modify?
Nouns
What is plagiarism?
Unlike Bob, who treated others rudely and kept to himself, Bobby was jovial, friendly, and outgoing.
What is jovial?
cheerful
A tall tale
What is a legend?
Paragraphs in the middle of the essay that provides citations and proof of knowledge on a topic.
What are body paragraphs?
The students in Mrs. Breedlove's class are prepared (for the benchmark). What type of prepositional phrase is in the parenthesis?
Adverb Prepositional Phrase
What is paraphrasing?
Putting a writer's information into your own words.
Lula would have attempted the walk home, had it not been for the immense mountain that stood between her and her destination.
What does the word immense mean?
What is large?
What is the figurative language?
The enormous boat cut through the icy water.
What is a personification?
The paragraph shows the opposite side of than argument while proving that side wrong.
What is the counterclaim?