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Developing
The Research Essay
Effective Sentences
Prepositions
Parts of Speech
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This expresses the main idea in an essay.
What is a thesis statement? (17)
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This is done when looking for information to help a person better understand a subject.
What is research? (258)
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Both of these are needed to create a sentence.
What is a subject and a verb? (340)
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These are four concepts prepositions show.
What are time, place, direction, and manner? (420)
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These words take the place of nouns.
What are pronouns? (427)
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This part of a thesis statement expresses the writer's opinion, attitude, or feeling about a topic.
What is a controlling idea?(17)
200
You can go to this facility to search online holdings and periodicals.
What is a library? (259)
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This is an incomplete sentence.
What is a fragment? (340)
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They are types of words linked by prepositions.
What are nouns, pronouns, and phrases? (313)
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These words describe nouns and pronouns.
What are adjectives? (442)
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The main idea of a paragraph is found here at the start of the paragraph.
What is a topic sentence? (23)
300
Search engines are used to retrieve thousands of documents from this place.
What is the internet? (260)
300
This occurs when two or more complete sentences are joined incorrectly.
What is a run-on?
300
The object of a prepositional phrase can never be this in a sentence.
What is the subject? (314)
300
These words add information to adjectives and verbs.
What are adverbs? (444)
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This is used to organize ideas before writing the first draft of an essay.
What is an essay plan? (35)
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It's what you should do to determine if online sources are legitimate.
What is evaluating?
400
He, she, and it are examples of this person.
What is third-person singular form? (375)
400
The object of a preposition is this type of word.
What is a noun? (314)
400
These can be linking or helping, among other things.
What are verbs?
500
Some types of this are web, freewriting, brainstorming, and outlining.
What is prewriting? (10)
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This is a separate page listing the sources that were consulted.
What is a Works Cited list?
500
This indicates when an actin occurred.
What is verb tense? (387)
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Of the words IN, ON, IT, and FOR, this one is not a preposition.
What is IT?
500
This can be a group of words containing a subject and verb, or Santa's last name.
What is a clause? (320)