A word that is one of the main parts of a sentence and expresses an action, an occurrence, or a state of being...
What is a verb?
100
Words that take the place of nouns...
What are pronouns?
100
Answers one of these three questions:
What kind is it?
How many are there?
Which one is it?
What is an adjective?
100
Contains at least two independent clauses without any connecting punctuation...
What is a run-on/fused sentence?
200
Is missing a subject or verb or both, and does not express a complete thought...
What is a dependent clause/fragment?
200
REMOVE an s from the singular form...
What is a plural verb?
The dogs chase the cat.
200
Refers to the person or people being spoken or written about...
"he," "she," and "it" for singular; "they" for plural
What is the third person point of view?
200
Words, phrases, or clauses that provide description in sentences...
What are modifiers?
200
Contains at least two independent clauses and only a comma...
What is a comma splice?
300
Contains 2 or more independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction...
(Sentence, COORDINATING CONJUNCTION sentence)
What is a compound sentence?
300
Plural nouns should be matched with plural verbs.
Singular nouns should be matched with singular verbs.
What is subject-verb agreement?
300
Subjective, objective, or possessive...
What are the pronoun cases?
300
To fix the error, place the modifier next to the appropriate word...
What is a misplaced modifier?
300
A list of 2 or 3 (or more) related details in a sentence require a similar structure.
If the first item is a noun, the following items must be nouns.
If the first item is a verb, the following items must be verbs.
What is parallelism?
400
Contains 1 independent clause and at least 1 dependent clause...
What is a complex sentence?
400
Use this tense when writing essays about your own ideas,
factual topics, or the action in a specific movie, play, or book...
Fixing this requires more than rearranging the words in the sentence. You will often need to add something new so that the modifier finally has a target word to describe.
What is a dangling modifier?
400
Used with a conjunctive adverb to connect two sentences close in meaning...
What is a semi-colon?
500
Contains 2 or more independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction and at least 1 dependent clause...
What is a compound-complex sentence?
500
Do not shift tenses between sentences or paragraphs unless there is a time change that must be shown.
What is verb tense consistency?
500
A pronoun must agree with this...
What is its antecedent/the word (noun) before the pronoun that it is replacing?
500
What literary term is this?
No reptiles have fur.
All snakes are reptiles.
No snakes have fur
What is Syllogism
500
To write the main ideas in your own words without looking at the original text...