Introductions
These are the parts of an introductory paragraph.
What is the hook, bridge, and thesis statement (claim)?
A complete sentence must always contain these two things.
What is a subject and predicate?
This is the misplaced modifier in this sentence:
Sauced with lumpy gravy, the waitress served Gilbert a plate of gray meatloaf.
What is "sauced with lumpy gravy"?
Vague or Redundant? Because of Winn Dixie was a good book.
This point of view uses the pronouns "I, me, we, us, my, and our?
What is first person?
The thesis statement is always this.
What is an opinion?
This is the difference between a clause and a phrase.
What is the phrase lacks a subject and verb and a clause contains a subject and verb?
This is the misplaced modifier in this sentence: The bus station was located by a river which was made of red brick.
What is "which was made of red brick?"
Vague or Redundant? Since wrestling can cause injuries, people should not be allowed to use it as a sport.
What is Vague?
This is the part of speech that indicates the point of view from which a story is told.
What is a pronoun?
A hook is included in an argument for this purpose.
What is to get or catch the reader's attention?
In the following sentence the bold portion is either a phrase or a clause: Daniel produced more than 10,000 songs this year.
What is a clause?
This is the modifier in this sentence: the contractors needed all kinds of artists to paint the mural badly.
Redundant or Vague? The idea of synthesis is to collaborate together to cone up with a better idea.
What is redundant?
These are the differences between third person limited and third person omniscient?
What is third person limited knows only the thoughts and feelings of one character and cannot tell any information about the future?
A thesis statement must be made specific by eliminative this type of words and phrases.
In the following sentence the bold portion is either a phrase or a clause: After the rain stopped, I went for a walk in my back yard.
What is a clause?
This is the misplaced modifier in this sentence:she was making a sweater for her lover that was warm.
What is "that was warm"?
Wordy, or Redundant?
I think that the Cowboys is the worst team in the NFL.
What is wordy?
This point of view is being used in the following sentence: After I approached the vehicle, I knew that I had to rescue the melting ice cream from the hot car; so I ate it.
What is first person point of view?
This is an error that creates wordiness in a thesis statement. When a thesis statement has the object as the subject, this is the type of voice being used.
What is passive voice?
This is the sentence structure represented in this sentence: Because there were so many complaints, the officer decided to respond to the call about the noisy neighbor, but he was too late.
What is compound-complex?
This is the misplaced modifier in this sentence: the opera singer was upstaged by the mime with the robust voice.
What is "with the robust voice"?
Redundant or Passive Voice?
A unruly school environment is promoted by the lack of a plethora of rules.
What is passive voice?
This is the point of view from which this story is told: Despite the attempts of the mother, the baby would not stop crying, but the father had an idea. Why don't you give him some warm milk and take him for a long drive.
What is third person limited?