What is having the subject and verb match - agree - in number?
100
This is using verbs to express different times (past, present, future, etc).
What is verb tense?
100
When a pronoun matches the noun or pronoun it replaces in number and gender, writers achieve this.
What is pronoun agreement?
100
These describe nouns and pronouns while these other words describe adjectives, adverbs, or verbs.
What are adjectives and what are adverbs?
100
What do we call words or groups of words that describe other words in a sentence?
What are modifiers?
200
This is how you can tell the verbs are regular verbs.
What is adding -d or -ed to the past tense?
200
This is the past tense of begin.
What is began?
200
These name a group that acts as a single unit.
What are collective nouns?
200
When using adjectives and adverbs in comparisons, this type of pronoun follows the word THAN.
What is a subjective pronoun?
200
What do we call a word that describes the wrong word or words in a sentence?
What is a misplaced modifier?
300
This is how you can tell the verbs are irregular verbs.
What are verbs that follow no rules for forming their past tense?
300
This is the past tense of cost.
What is cost?
300
This is ambiguous pronoun reference.
What is using a pronoun that could refer to more than one noun?
300
This is how adjectives and adverbs form comparisons.
What is comparing two people, places, or things (often using the word THAN) by ending the words with -er, ier, or adding MORE in front of the word?
300
What are words or groups of words that have nothing to modify in the sentence?
What are dangling modifiers?
400
When one of these comes between the subject and the verb, writers may have subject/verb agreement errors.
What is a prepositional phrase
OR
a dependent clause?
400
When all the action in the sentence or paragraph happens in the same tense, the writer has achieved this.
What is verb consistency (consistency of verb tense).
400
1) This occurs when a pronoun does not refer clearly to any particular person, place, or thing,
and
2) this occurs when the pronoun repeats a reference to a noun rather than replacing the noun.
What is vague pronoun reference?
AND
What is repetitious pronoun reference?
400
This is how adjectives and adjectives form superlatives.
What is comparing 3 or more people, places, and things using -est, -iest, or most?
400
Correct this sentence: Now I nearly write everyday.
What is NOW I WRITE NEARLY EVERYDAY?
500
When sentences begin with either of these two words, you must turn the sentence around to find the subjects and verbs.
What are HERE or THERE?
500
These are the three kinds of verbs writers use.
What are action verbs, linking verbs, and helping verbs?
500
These are the three types of pronouns used according to thier use in sentences.
What are subject pronouns, object pronouns, and possessive pronouns?
500
This is the superlative form of bad.
What is worst?
500
Correct this sentence: Darlene started the car using jumper cables.
What is DARLENE USED JUMPER CABLES TO START THE CAR?