Conjunction Junction
These are all of the coordinating conjunctions.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
A coordinating conjunction separates these.
What are two independent clauses?
A paragraph must have at least this many sentences.
What is three?
A long quote has at least this many words.
What is forty?
The Texas county where the floods took place.
What is Hunt County?
These are five of the most commonly used subordinating conjunctions.
Sample answer: while, since, because, if, although
A subordinating conjunction separates these.
What are an independent clause and a dependent clause?
A writer may use this many consecutive words from an outside source before they must use quotation marks.
What is three?
When you quote something without including quotation marks, it is called this.
What is plagiarism?
The website I use when the news has been too depressing.
What is the Good News Network?
A subordinating conjunction makes an ____ clause become _____.
What is independent and dependent?
*Must answer in the correct order!
Quotation marks indicate this.
What is that the words enclosed were taken verbatim from another source?
This is the maximum number of words you can have in a short quote form.
What is forty?
This is how often it is acceptable to include a short quote.
What is once per paragraph?
The topic of the most active Reddit debate we have had in this class.
What is a marriage proposal?
A coordinating conjunction is used in this type of sentence.
What is a compound sentence?
A semi-colon is used to do this.
What is to join two complete sentences with closely related messages.
Bonus points if you mentioned the answer above AND to separate items in a list that require a comma for another purpose.
A research paragraph should have at least this many sentences that require citations.
What is two?
This is how often is it acceptable to include a long quote.
What is once per five pages of original text?
This is the annual speech that is the best example of news bias.
What is the State of the Union Address?
When a sentence contains a coordinating conjunction and a subordinating conjunction, it is called this.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
A citation is used to show this.
This is the rule for when you should write numbers in word form. You must include the exception to the rule to get this right.
What is to write numbers under one hundred unless the number is in a date?
*Bonus points if you answered both of these parts and mentioned how to write a number over 1 million.
These are the two occasions when it is proper to quote.
What is:
1) When the language is the point
and
2) When it would lose something if you paraphrased it
This is how many dogs your professor has.
What is five?