History Hunters
What are roses?
to expand upon something to great detail:
What is elaborate?
A conversation between two or more characters in a story shown inside quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
When you are excited you add a _ to the end of your sentence:
What is exclamation mark/! ?
Words that have the same meaning:
What is synonym?
Who founded pennsylvania?
Who is William Penn?
the main piece of information about something:
What is gist?
The base part of a word that carries the core meaning, before any prefixes or suffixes are added.
What is a root word
The perspective which uses I,me,my:
What is first person?
Is there, their, or they're correct in the sentence "Look over _____ at the flowers!"
What is there/the first option?
What house did Dinah live/work at?
What is Stenton house?
describes what we are trying to figure out?
What is focus question?
Hints hidden within a sentence or paragraph that help a reader define an unfamiliar word.
What are context clues
What is a synonym for rebuild?
What is to reconstruct/reassemble/restore
A word that sounds the same but has different spelling, for example two,to, and too:
What is homophone?
What did Charles Wilson Peale always include in his art work as a signature
What is a paint pallet?
an account about a person written by that person:
What is autobiography?
OUCH!, Wow!, and Hey! are all ______.
Rewriting an authors ideas in entirely different words.
What is paraphrasing?
What do you do at the start of a sentence or the start of a propernoun:
What is capitalizing the first letter?
This historic Germantown house is famous for being a stop on the Underground Railroad and the home of Quakers.
What is the Johnson house?
a part of a sentence that describes the action of the subject:
What is predicate characteristics?
TRIPLE: A group of words that contains a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence because it leaves a thought unfinished.
What is a dependent clause?
This specific type of pronoun is used to show ownership.
What is a possessive pronoun?
What is the grammatical error "Today I went shopping at the mall with my friends, also I love Camelback waterpark.":
What is a run-on sentence?