Sentence Structure
An incomplete sentence that is lacking either a subject or verb such as: Floating in the sea with nothing to hold onto.
What is a fragment?
I love my cabin. (It's or Its) location is perfect.
What is its?
Insert commas: I learned about nouns verbs and adjectives.
What is after nouns and optionally after verbs?
The comma before the word, and, in a list
What is the Oxford comma?
Please give one of the books to both the librarian and (I or me).
What is me?
The two necessary parts of a sentence
What are a subject (noun) and a predicate (verb)?
She just (lay, laid) there.
What is lay?
Delete or leave the comma: I attended the retreat, since I love getting together with other writers.
What is delete the comma?
The punctuation used to show possession
What is an apostrophe?
Each of the many men on the committees took (his or their) seat after the introductions.
What is his?
Two clauses (sentences) combined with a comma instead of a period or semi-colon such as: Everyone arrived Thursday, we had dinner.
What is a comma splice?
The weather (effected or affected) my decision to come, and the (effect or affect) was that I had to pay a late fee.
What is affected/effect?
Delete a comma: I really enjoyed the delicious,nutritious lunch, and ate more than I usually do.
What is no comma after lunch?
Punctuation goes (inside or outside) quotation marks (American).
What is inside?
I heard that Crystal and (he or him) went to the party.
What is he?
Two clauses (sentences) combined with a comma and a coordinating conjunction such as: It was great to see old at the retreat friends, and I made some new ones, too.
What is a compound sentence?
For all (intensive purposes or intents and purposes), the class was very useful.
What is intents and purposes?
Insert comma: Obviously her book deserves all the praise it gets because it is engaging and interesting.
What is after obviously?
You can combine two short related sentences with this.
What is a semi-colon?
My friend and (myself or I) liked the class on story structure.
What is I?
Two clauses (sentences) combined without punctuation such as: I read a new book it's about vampire werewolf zombies.
What is a run-on sentence?
This game has (peaked, peeked, piqued) my interest in grammar.
What is piqued?
Use a comma after an introductory prepositional phrase of this many words.
What is 5?
Three kinds of punctuation marks that set apart additional information
What are commas, em dashes, and parentheses?
ANWA increased (their or its) membership when (they/it) invited men to join.
What is its/it?