commas separate these two sentences with a coordinating conjunction
What is a compound sentence?
100
coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but,
or, yet, so.
What are the FANBOYS?
100
A sentence with one subject and one predicate.
What is a simple sentence?
100
The repeating of consonants or consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
200
physically beautiful
What is pulchritudinous?
200
The teacher ate apples, bananas, and cherries.
What is separating nouns in a series?
200
a word made by the shortening of two
words into one, eliminating some letters in the process.
What is a contraction?
200
A sentence composed of two complete sentences (related ideas only) joined together with a comma and a coordinating conjunction (and, or, nor, for, so, but, yet) or a semicolon.
What is a compound sentence?
200
extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
300
to put forth
What is dispel?
300
You know, parents, it is important to
write correctly.
What is a direct address?
300
your versus you're
What are homophones?
300
A sentence that has one of more independent clauses and a subordinate clause.
What is a complex sentence?
300
comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
400
a five line poem
What is a cinquain?
400
My cat, Skeeter, likes to sit on my lap as I write.
What is an unnecessary appositive?
400
demonstrative adjectives “a,” “an,” and “the.”
What is a noun marker or an article?
400
This expresses powerful emotion or strong feeling or an interjection.
What is the exclamation mark?
400
Where future events in a story, or perhaps the outcome, are suggested by the author before they happen
What is foreshadowing?
500
to stare angrily
What is glower?
500
“If you don’t get off my foot,” she said, “I’ll step on
yours.”
What is using quotation marks to set off what is
being said out loud.
500
is used to separate parts of a sentence or in lists where the use of a lot of commas makes meaning difficult.