Chapter 3
What is this italicized part an example of?
Ex: From 2000 to 1000 B.C.
What is prepositional phrase?
What type of sentence is this?
ex: There was public excitement over the expedition from the start.
What is an inverted sentence
Which of these words in the sentence is a concrete noun?
Ex: One event during colonial times—the Boston Tea Party—led the colonies to support each other instead of Britain.
what is during
How do you correct this sentence?
Dance is like any sport dance requires strength and coordination.
Like any sport, dance requires strength and coordination
What is the first stage of the writing process
prewriting
What is the adverb clause in this sentence?
Ex: When people love music, they carry it with them.
What is When people love music
What type of sentence is this?
Ex: Give my love and kisses to the children...
What is an imperative sentence?
What type of word is jury
collective noun
Is something wrong with this? If so what is?
Ronald Dahl grew up in Wales. Like many children, Dahl kept a journal he tried to hide it from his siblings.
“Dahl kept a journal, he tried to hide it from his siblings.” is a run on sentence.
The stage in the writing process in which you check for spelling errors, punctuation errors, etc.
editing and proofreading
What type of phrase is this?
ex: a warlike people
What is an appositive phrase?
What type of phrase is this
ex: Two thousand miles from the nearest continent, South America, lies Easter Island, also called Rapa Nui
Compound Subject
Fill in the blank: Whether male or female, each firefighter had ____own job to do on the truck
his or her
What type of figure of speech is this?
A sentence without adjectives is like a pizza without toppings.
simile
the state in which you plan what you’re going to write about and gather information
prewriting
What is this phrase?
ex: bought and carried
what is a compound verb?
What is the compound verb in this sentence?
ex: Shelley had a dream about an odd doctor named Frankenstein and wrote a story about it.
What is ‘had’ and ‘wrote’
What type of pronoun is ‘yourself’
reflexive
The machinery was beeping and (made a click noise, clicking) all night
clicking
The stage in which you rethink some ideas or topics in your writing
revising
What type of sentence is this?
ex: In about 390 B.C., they successfully sacked Rome.
What is a simple sentence?
What type of word is the emphasized word in this sentence?
The population dwindled quickly.
What is simple predicate
What type of noun or pronoun is decision
abstract noun
My brother would (come home tired, be too tired to speak) after working in the hot sun all day.
be too tired to speak.
editing and proofreading are the same thing (t or f)
true