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Name your five dress-ups.
-ly adverb, who-which clause, quality adjecitve, strong verb, www.asia.b clause
Which numbers should usually be spelled out rather than written as numerals?
Numbers that can be written in one or two words
How do you begin a #5 sentence opener?
With a www.asia.b clause.
First sentence in a body paragraph
What is a topic sentence?
When incorporating a www.asiab clause, add a comma if the clause is in this part of the sentence.
What is at the beginning?
If you remove a who-which clause from the sentence, what should remain?
a complete sentence
What must be changed if this is a sentence in a report (academic writing): Ancient men didn't have the sophisticated machines of today.
didn't should be did not
Add a #3 sentence opener to this sentence: She was wearing two different shoes.
Answers will vary.
When writing a three-paragraph story from pictures, how should each paragraph begin?
with a central fact
The first time an adult is referenced, use his or her first and last name. After this, how should he or she be referenced _________________.
by last name only
Fix this sentence:
We attended the game and our team won!
We attended the game, and our team won!
What sentence openers have you learned? How do you label them?
[1] Subject Opener
[2] Prepositional Opener
[3] –ly Adverb Opener
[4] –ing Opener
[5] Clausal Opener
[6] VSS
When you must write without a source text, how can you get ideas for what to write?
Ask yourself brain-helping questions!
Improve this sentence by adding a because clause: Honesty is important...
Answers will vary.
What must a because, who-which, and www.asia clause contain to be complete?
a subject and a verb
When used with quotations, do periods and commas always go inside or outside of end quotation marks?
inside
Some #2 and #5 openers can begin with the same words. Tell the difference between the two.
A #5 opener always has a subject-verb pair. A #2 opener does not have a subject-verb pair.
What are three techniques for creating attention getters?
Question, VSS, quote or fact
What must an introduction paragraph include?
Attention getter, subject, background information, and the topics of the body paragraphs
Name three banned verbs and four banned adjectives.
amazing, say/said, go/went, see/saw/look, big, small, little, good, bad, get/got, happy, sad, quickly
Every time a new character speaks, what must happen?
The text must be indented, and their words must be enclosed with quotation marks.
All of the following examples are not legal #4 openers. Choose one and explain why it is not one.
1) Digging at many sites, artifacts give us clues to the past.
2) Digging at many sites often yields few artifacts.
3) During the excavation archaeologists hoped to unearth clues to the past.
Answers may vary.
1) This is incorrect because artifacts were not digging at many sites.
2) This is a #1 subject opener (digging is gerund, which functions as a noun). There is neither a comma nor a subject doing the –ing word.
3) This is a #2 prepositional opener, archaeologists (the subject) are not doing the during.
1) The word that describes what a paper is about.
2) Each body paragraph has its own __________.
1) Subject
2) Topic
What is the structure of a basic five-paragraph essay?
Introduction, three body paragraphs, conclusion