What is something you give up in order to have something else.
100
What is a sentence that commands and what puncutation do you use?
What is an imperative sentence, period.
100
What is the difference between comparing and contrasting?
Comparing is telling how things are the same, contrasting is telling how they are different.
100
What is a similie?
A sentence comparing two things using like or as
100
What puncutation seperates items in a list or thoughts in a sentence?
What is a comma
200
What are the two defintions for the word Quarter?
What is a fourth or 25 percet of something also, a coin worth 25 cents.
200
What is a sentences that tells (states)? What puncutation does it use?
What is a declarative sentence, period.
200
What is a character trait and list one of Anne Marie's character traits...
A character trait explains how a person acts. Annemarie was very loving,brave, kind and loyal.
200
What is a metaphor?
When the author compares something using the word IS. My life is a dream.
200
List the sentences you have in a paragraph.
What is topic sentence, supporting sentences and closing sentence.
300
What is a root word? Give an example
What is the main building block of a word from which it gets it's meaning. Many examples like "Nation" in National. Bio in Biology, etc.
300
What sentences asks? What does punctuation does it need?
What is interogative and ?
300
What is the main idea and what are supporting details?
The main idea tells what the story is mostly about. Supporting details give more information about the main idea.
300
Name the four main parts of speech and give an example of each from this sentence.
The angry cat walked quickly through the street.
What are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs. N-cat Adj-angry V-walked Adv-quickly
300
What is the difference between writing in first person and third person?
First person, a character in the story is telling you directly. Third person, someone not in the story is telling you the story.
400
The fisherman went to the Baitshop to buy bait for his fishing trip. They would have little luck catching the catfish without good bait. Use the context clues to determine the meaning of bait.
What is something used as food to lure/catch fish.
400
When your sentence has a lot of feeling and meaning you use what type of punctuaction?
What is exclamation point.
400
Even money has a price tag. The price that you pay for money is called interest. When you borrow money from a bank, the bank charges you interest. You must pay back the money you borrowed plus the interest. Maybe you pay an extra 5 percent. Maybe you pay an extra 15 percent. That is how a bank makes money. It charges interest.
What is the main idea of this paragraph?
What is interest
400
How many syllables are in the word: Encyclopedia
What is 6
400
What is the difference between a fact and an opinion, state one of each.
A fact can be proven and opinion is someone's beliefs. George Washington was the first president. He was a great president.
500
What does the word Genre mean? Name 5 different types of genre we have discussed this year.
What is a type of writing. Play, poem, short story, memoir, essay (also feature article, biography, etc)
500
What is a sentence that has two seperate ideas compounded together? Why would you use it?
What is a compound sentence and to make your writing more concise.
500
Mary went to the super market before the Easter Egg Hunt. She bought five dozen eggs, egg dye and white crayons. She bought Bunny stickers for her little sister. She loves Easter so much and has such a good time with her family.
What is Mary going to do with the eggs?
What is dye them for the Easter Hunt.
500
What is the difference between a dictionary and a thesaurus?
Use both to look up the word happy.
Dictionary gives defintions, Thesaurus gives synonyms and antonyms.
500
What is an antonym and what is a synonym. Give an example of each.
Antonym means opposite meaning and Synonym means same meaning. Delicious and scrumptious are synonyms. Delicious and Disgusting are antonyms.