Parts of Speech
Structures, purposes, & patterns
Charts
Name that IEW Dress-up
Creative and Formal writing
200

These name person, place, thing, activity, or idea.

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nouns?

200

This purpose is indicated by a question mark.

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the interrogative purpose?

200

This verb type does not transfer action from the subject to an object.

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An intransitive verb?

200

She marched across the road.

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a strong verb?

200

This is the name for the people in a story.

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the characters?

400

This replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.

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a pronoun?

400

This sentence structure includes one independent clause.

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a simple structure?

400

Name the four sentence structures.

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Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex?

400

She quickly walked across the road.

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an -ly adverb?

400

The first sentence which tells what the paragraph is about. 

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the topic sentence?

600

These modify verbs, adjectives, or adverbs.

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adverbs?

600

It's the pattern of this sentence:

Jesus is humble.

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S-Vl-Pa?

600

This type of conjunction includes for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.

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coordinating conjunctions?

600

She walked across the massive road.

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a quality adjective?

600

This is the problem, want, or need of the main character in the story.

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the conflict?

800

These answer the questions: 

what kind? how many? which? or whose?

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adjectives?

800

This purpose always has an "understood" you as the subject.

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the imperative purpose?

800

This type of noun names more than one person, place, thing, activity, or idea.

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a plural noun?

800

She walked across the road, which wasn't busy, to get to the other side.

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a who-which clause?

800

This is the turning point of the story, or the event that leads to the conflict being solved.

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the climax?

1000

These relate a noun or pronoun to another word.

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prepositions?

1000

This structure includes a FANBOY and at least two independent clauses.

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the compound structure?

1000

What questions do adverbs answer?

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how? when? where? why? how often? how much? to what extent? under what condition?

1000

She walked across the road because she was dressed like a chicken.

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a because clause?

1000

The last sentence of a paragraph that reflects or repeats the topic?

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The clincher.