Parts of Speech
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
A complete sentence must contain these two essential parts.
What are a subject and a predicate?
This punctuation mark is used for direct quotations and speech.
What are quotation marks?
The sentence that presents the main argument or claim of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
Confusing their, there, and they're is an example of this type of error.
What are homophone errors?
Words like quickly, often, and very belong to this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
A sentence that contains one independent clause and no dependent clauses.
This punctuation is used to join two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
The practice of giving credit to sources used in your writing.
What is citation?
What is apostrophe usage?
This part of speech connects a noun to another word and often indicates direction, time, or location.
What is a preposition?
A sentence with two or more independent clauses joined by a conjunction or semicolon.
What is a compound sentence?
These marks appear in pairs and are used to set off nonessential information within a sentence.
What are parentheses?
This style of writing avoids slang, contractions, and overly conversational tone.
What is formal academic style?
When the subject and verb do not match in number, this kind of grammatical error occurs.
What is subject-verb agreement?
The words replace nouns to avoid repetition in writing.
What are pronouns?
A sentence that includes an independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
This punctuation indicates a pause stronger than a comma but weaker than a period.
What is an em dash?
A paragraph's main idea is expressed in this sentence.
What is a topic sentence?
A grammatical and rhetorical device where words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence have the same grammatical structure.
What is parallelism?
Words like although, because, and unless fall into this category.
What are subordinating conjunctions?
The error that occurs when two clauses are combined without punctuation or a conjunction.
What is a run-on sentence (or fused sentence)?
This type of comma placement error occurs when a comma is incorrectly used to join two independent clauses.
This term describes the logical flow and organization of ideas in writing.
What is coherence?
Overusing passive voice can make writing vague. This term refers to the opposite-sentences in which the subject performs the action.
What is active voice?