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Parts of Speech
Types of Sentences
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Paragraph Development
The Writing Process
100
Noun
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
100
Two independent clauses
What is a compound sentence?
100
One day, he walked _____ a store _____ his home.
What are 'from' and 'to'?
100
The first sentence that tells the reader the controlling idea
What is a topic sentence?
100
Prewriting techniques
What are brainstorming, freewriting, outlining, and listing?
200
Verb
What is an action or state of being?
200
The grammatical term for FANBOYS
What are coordinating conjunctions?
200
Everyone should bring ______ book to class.
What is 'his or her'?
200
These two types of paragraph development are usually organized chronologically
What are narrative and process?
200
Looking for content and unity
What is revising?
300
Pronoun
What replaces a noun?
300
One or more dependent clauses and one independent clause
What is a complex sentence?
300
Jim (teach) _________ for fifteen years. (a current and ongoing action)
What is 'has been teaching'? ('Taught' means he is no longer teaching)
300
The last sentence of a paragraph
What is the concluding sentence?
300
Prewriting technique of writing for several minutes with no concern for grammar or content
What is freewriting?
400
Adverb
What describes or modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb?
400
The type of conjunctions at the beginning of a dependent clause
What are subordinating conjunctions?
400
I live _____ 123 Sesame Street ______ Dallas.
What are 'at' and 'in'?
400
The general idea in a descriptive paragraph
What is the dominant impression?
400
You will have several of these in the writing process
What are drafts?
500
Preposition
What shows the relationship between a noun and another part of the sentence?
500
All clauses have these two parts of speech
What are a noun (subject) and a verb?
500
Let's just keep this between you and _____.
What is 'me'?
500
The two types of organization for compare and contrast paragraphs
What are topic-by-topic (subject-by-subject) and point-by-point?
500
Always the final step of the writing process that must be done before you turn in your paper
What is editing?