Grammar
The form of a verb that shows when some action takes place, took place, or will take place.
What is "tense".
An omission within quoted material needs this mark.
What is an "ellipses"?
This style of writing is most often used by journalists and other news & media writers.
What is AP (Associated Press) style?
Pair this wine with fish, chicken, or pork.
What is "white", "Chardonnay", or "pinot grigio"?
A word that expresses emotion.
What is an "interjection"?
A punctuation mark used chiefly to direct attention to the matter that follows.
What is a "colon"?
This style of writing is most often used in the humanities.
What is Chicago (sometimes written Chicago/Turabian)?
This elegant wine is both earthy and sweet; Julia Child used it in her famous boeuf bourguignon recipe.
What is Burgundy?
A verbal compound of the "-ing" form of a verb; used as a noun.
What is a "gerund"?
Terms based on the initial letters of the words in the expanded expression and read as single words--Danaher couldn't exist without these.
What are "acronyms"?
This style of writing is most commonly used in computing and information technology fields.
What is ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)?
This sparkling and floral wine could take your Prosciutto and Melon skewers to a whole new level.
What is Prosecco?
A word that modifies or describes a verb, an adjective, or another one of these.
What is an "adverb"?
Also called a "virgule", this punctuation mark is used mainly to symbolize the phrase divided by or per in mathematical expressions.
What is a "slash"?
This style of writing is most commonly used in medical writing.
What is AMA (American Medical Association)?
This wine goes well with cheesy dishes--the color could remind you of a beautiful garden.
What is rose?
A grammatical error that occurs when a sentence contains a modifier but no word for that modifier to describe.
What is a "dangling modifier"?
A pair of punctuation marks used in writing and printing to enclose matter or in mathematics and logic as signs of aggregation.
What are "brackets"?
You're not crazy if you remember this style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences.
What is APA (American Psychological Association)?
While reading Balzac's "The Human Comedy" and enjoying barbeque, you might enjoy this fruity and smokey wine.
What is Malbec?