Sentence Types
These are the words of FANBOYS.
What are For, And, NOR, But, Or, Yet, So?
This is where you should look when you need to know how to spell a word.
What is a dictionary?
The attention-grabbing sentence of an essay.
What is the hook?
The main idea of a story.
What is theme?
This is used to support the main idea of an article.
What is text evidence?
This sentence is composed of a subject and a predicate.
What is a simple sentence?
These rules determine if a word should be lower or upper case.
What are the Capitalization rules?
This is the paragraph that introduces the thesis and hook.
What is an introduction paragraph?
This is the main problem in the story.
What is conflict?
This is what you use to quote a source.
What are quotation marks?
This sentence is comprised of two complete sentences with a fanboy.
What is a compound sentence?
These are words or phrases that can connect paragraphs or sections of a text.
What are transition words?
This paragraph is where you restate the thesis and summarize all key points.
What is the conclusion paragraph?
This is the author's reason for or intent in writing. (persuade, entertain, inform)
What is the author's purpose?
This can be used to shorten a quote.
What are ellipses?
This sentence is comprised of independent and dependent clauses using an AWUBIS word.
This is when you need the tense of the subject to match the verb.
What is a Subject-Verb Agreement?
The controlling idea of an essay.
What is the Thesis?
This is when you make an educated prediction based on what you read.
What is an inference?
This is where the page numbers go.
What is outside of the quotation marks?
These are the words in AAAWWUBBIS.
What is As/Although/After, While/When, Unless, Because/Before, If, Since?
This punctuation should be used when conjoining two main clauses.
What is a semi-colon?
This is the controlling idea of a paragraph.
What is the Topic Sentence?
This is when you have to associate the meaning of a word based on the surrounding words.
What is Connotation?
This is what you should do when quoting a quote.
What is putting quotation marks around the quote and then replacing the original quotation marks with a single mark?