This part of speech is a word that is used to name something: a person, a place, an object, or an idea.
What is a noun
100
The word(s) used incorrectly in the following sentence: You're new car has been inspected and registered, so it's already to drive.
What is "you're, already"
100
This term refers to who or what a sentence is about.
What is the subject
100
The primary uses of this punctuation mark include introducing a list, long quotation, or explanation.
What is a colon
100
Dependent-word is a type of this error, demonstrated in the following word group: After I began exercising.
What is a fragment
200
Action, linking, and helping are all types of this part of speech.
What is a verb
200
This commonly confused word means "main," but it is also used as the title of a person in charge of a school or as an amount of money borrowed. (*Spell*)
What is principal
200
Infinitives cannot function as the main one of these in a sentence.
What is a verb
200
This punctuation mark can be used to correct a run-on by placing it between two complete thoughts.
What is a semicolon
200
This error occurs when two complete thoughts have been run together without sufficient sign given to mark the break between them.
What is a run-on
300
The sentence "A man in the bus was snoring loudly" includes this prepositional phrase.
What is "in the bus"
300
In this set of commonly confused words, the first is a noun meaning "an opinion," while the second is a verb meaning "to counsel, to give advice." (*Spell*)
What is advice and advise
300
These words comprise the verb in the following sentence, demonstrating that verbs can consist of more than one word: The football game has been canceled.
What is "has been canceled"
300
The following sentence uses this punctuation mark to indicate two or more words acting as a single unit to describe a noun: Be careful as you approach the one-lane bridge.
What is a hyphen
300
The following word group is an example of this type of run-on: Trevor couldn't wait for finals to be over, he was ready to be home and done with classes.
What is comma splice
400
These words are adverbs, such as in the following sentence: The sick man spoke very faintly to his loyal nurse.
What is very faintly
400
These commonly confused words correctly complete the following sentence: The medication did not (affect, effect) me negatively, (accept, except) I did (loose, lose) my ability to smell while taking it. (*Spell*)
What is affect, except, and lose
400
Since the subject of a sentence will never be in a prepositional phrase, this word is the subject of the following sentence: In the past year, three schools in the district have had to close.
What is schools
400
Used to separate items in a series that already contain commas, this punctuation mark would need to be added to the following sentence after "Boston" and "Scotland": Rebecca was excited to see her relatives over the holidays: Uncle Randy, who lived in Boston Aunt Meredith, who came all the way from Scotland and Cousin Leroy, who just didn't get out much.
What is a semicolon
400
This is one method of correcting run-ons, along with a period and capital letter, semicolon, and subordination.
What is a comma and joining word/coordinating conjunction
500
Words such as "after, although, because, before, since, unless, whenever, and while" are included in this type of conjunction.
What is subordinating
500
Commonly confused words are results of this term, which refers to words that have the same sounds but different meanings and spellings.
What is a homonym
500
These words are subject and verb of the following sentence: The ending of that movie should not have been so depressing.
What is "ending, should have been"
500
A dash needs to be added after these words in the following sentence: The cruise was such a terrible experience that I never want to get on a cruise liner or any boat for that matter ever again.
What is "liner, matter"
500
A fragment occurs when a word group lacks one or more of these three sentence components.
What is a subject, verb, and expression of a complete thought