Grammar Bites
Editing and Revising
Mr. R's Business
Troublesome question types
All about the ECR
100

What are the 4 different sentence types we have learned about so far?

Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound Complex

100

Its important to practice book moves in Chess, but you must also stay flexible to other strategies.

Change Its to It's

100

Which instrument(s) is Mr. R learning to play?

Drums and Bass Guitar

100

This type of question has 5 answer choices instead of the regular 4.

Multi Select
100

How are introductions and conclusions similar?

They both have to have a thesis statement.

200

List 5 different ways to use a comma

Commas in a series, FANBOYS, to separate adjectives, appositive phrases, after THAMO words, after intro phrases, Direct Addresses, Dates.

200

Don't try to overthink things like this; because, you'll start to overlook simple ideas and get it wrong.

Answers will vary.

200

Which is the NEWEST shark in Mr. R's collection?

Goblin Shark (crocheted)

200

This type of question usually ask you for a specific word

Fill in the blank

200

What are the two categories that ECR's are scored under?

Grammar / Development of Ideas

300

You can't use a pronoun before setting up the noun that it replaces. What is this called?

Pronoun Antecedent

300

My Hero Academia, a Japanese Manga series, had one of the most horrible dog water endings of any Japanese Manga I had the unfortunate misfortune to read. (Edit for wordiness and redundancy)

Answers will vary.

300

What is Mr. R's cat's name?

Sylvie

Bonus - What is Mr. R's dog's name?

300

This is the only multiple choice question that requires you to have text evidence.

Part A / Part B question

300

Grammar 2/2 | Development of Ideas 0/3

Why is this not a possible score?

If you score a 0 on development grammar doesn't count.

400

Write an sentence with relative pronoun and an adjective phrase.

answers will vary

400

Combine into a sentence with an appositive phrase.

Eren Yeager lives in Paradis.

Eren is a titan shifter.

Eren started the rumbling. 

Answers will vary

400

During "Dress like a student day", what character was on Mr. R's Hoodie?

Naruto

400

You should use the Checks and Exes strategy to deal with these types of questions. These questions are usually about two different texts.

The Crossover question / Paired Passage questions

Bonus

*What do these questions look like? Write a question*

400

Name 2 different body paragraph structures.

TEXT / MEAL / RACES / REEL

500

What are the THAMO words ,and how do you use them??

Therefore, However, Also, Meanwhile, Otherwise

You use them after a semicolon with a comma.

; therefore, 

500

Jolyne and her father, Jotaro have both been through some truly bizarre adventures, although they each had there friends and family with them to help them out in the toughest most stressful situations.

Add a comma after "Jotaro", remove the comma after although, add the comma between "toughest" and "most stressful".

500

Name 3 of the Artist's on Mr. R's top 5 for Spotify Wrapped.

$uicide Boy$, Tyler the Creator, Kendrick Lamar, Denzel Curry, Lamb of God

500

What type of questions are usually assessed with the GRID question type? What makes them so difficult to get points from them?

Summary questions or Agree/Not Agree questions

The ENTIRE grid needs to be correct.

500

The Girl Scouts are a pillar of girls empowerment because of how they were able to be on the same level as the boy scouts. Girls now had the opportunities for fun and service only previously available to boys. This was a bid for gender equality that distinguished the Girl Scouts from its competitors who stressed differences between girls and boys... This shows us that the girls and boys were able to participate in the same things further letting them get on equal playing field.

Score is 2/3 the information is good the development can be improved mostly with better flowing sentences. The text evidence is just added in without any quotation or transition.