In this part of the writing process, you develop ideas by writing whatever comes to mind on a specific topic for up to 15 minutes.
What is freewriting?
100
This is the subject of the following sentence:
In my defense, my brother is the one who ate all the quiche.
What is my brother?
100
A fragment is an incomplete sentence because it can be missing what two things?
What is a subject or a verb?
100
This sentence provides the main point of your paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
100
If I have a group of three or more items or ideas, what punctuation do I use to separate them?
What is a comma?
200
In this part of the writing process, you read over your draft and make changes to make your piece better.
What is Revision?
200
Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence.
Yesterday, we stopped by the store to pick up some roses for our mothers because we love them.
What is stopped, pick up, love.
200
This is the term for two sentences that run together with no punctuation.
What is a run on sentence?
200
Correct this sentence (if it needs it):
Me and my friends always go shopping on Saturdays.
What is "My friends and I always go shopping on Saturdays."
200
These two words are the shortest words in the English language?
What is "I" and "a"?
300
When you look over your writing to correct errors, you are doing what?
What is editing or proofreading?
300
Name two helping verbs
Examples: can, might, shall, should, must
300
These are words we use to combine sentences.
What are conjunctions?
300
Rewrite the sentence to avoid redundancy.
The little child Rafael is a preschool student.
What is "Rafael is a preschool student."
300
Correct this sentence using appropriate punctuation:
I left early for Brazil in fact I'm not coming back.
What is: I left for Brazil; in fact, I'm not coming back.
400
You should always make sure you know who you are writing to. This group is called your
What is audience?
400
This is the part of sentence that doesn't have the subject in it.
What is the predicate.
400
We can use these words to take the place of nouns
What are pronouns?
400
This paragraph usually states the purpose or reason for your essay and catches your reader’s interest.
What is an opening or introductory paragraph?
400
These are the prepositional phrases in the following sentence:
I went to the store on Almaden Expressway to buy some groceries for my mom.
What is to the store, on Almaden Expressway, and for my mom?
500
In this writing strategy, you start with one paragraph and pull something out of it to write another paragraph. You can do this several times.
What is looping?
500
This is the subject of Abraham Lincoln's famous sentence,
"four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation."
What is "our fathers".
500
One way to clean up a run on sentence is to end the first phrase with a period and then capitalize the next phrase. What are the two other ways to correct run on sentences?
What is separate the phrases with a semicolon or separate them with a comma and a conjunction?
500
Correct this sentence(if it needs it):
Cam eats as much as him.
What is "Cam eats as much as he."
500
These are the eight parts of speech.
What is noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, adverb, interjection, and pronoun