It has a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought.
What is a complete sentence?
100
Name three transition words.
What is however, and, because, moreover etc, etc?
100
A stative verb.
What is a verb that describes a state and not usually used ina progressive tense (knoe, hate, seem)?
100
Modal verbs to give advice.
What are should and ought to (can, could, would are also possible)?
100
Steps in the writing process.
What is brainstorming, outlining, rough draft, revising, editing/proofreading, final draft?
200
The pairing of similar elements-words, phrases, or clauses- to give equal weight to each pair.
What is coordination?
200
Name the FANBOYS.
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so?
200
The tense used when something has begun and ended at a particular time in the past.
What is simple past?
200
It follows a preposition (think about verb+preposition combinations)?
What is a noun or gerund?
200
A group of sentences that develops one main idea.
What is a paragraph?
300
Two or more independent clauses that run together with ONLY a comma.
What is a comma splice?
300
Name the three ways to manage coordination of two independant clauses.
What is comma + fanboy, semi-colon+coordinating conjunction+ comma, semicolon separating two independent clauses?
300
Three ways to express simple future.
What is will, going to and present progressive?
300
Me, you, her, him, it, us, you, them
What are object pronouns?
300
The definition of 'topic sentence' as well as the two parts of a TP.
What is the sentence that states the main idea of the paragraph and contains the 'topic' and the 'controlling idea'?
400
The method used to combine sentences whose ideas are not equally important.
What is subordination?
400
How can you correct a sentence fragment
What is develop it into a complete sentence, or join the fragment to another sentence?
400
The tense used to sequence the past of the past without using time indicators like 'before', 'after' etc.
What is past perfect?
400
The difference between: I used to + verb and I am used to + gerund.
What is 'something you did habitually in the past that you no longer do' vs. 'something that was strange before, but that you have become accustomed to now'?
400
One thing a concluding sentence or a concluding paragraph should never do.
What is give new information?
500
Use this when the subordinating conjunction clause begins the sentence.
What is a comma?
500
The balance in a sentence containing a list.
What is parallelism?
500
Four Verbs you can use with both present perfect and present perfect continuous. I have + pp OR I have been + verbing
What is live, work, study and teach?
500
A tense used to show the importance of the action rather that who did the action.
What is passive voice?
500
Name five different writing stategies tried in this class.
What is narration, description, process, compare/contrast, cause and effect, argumentation?