A group of related words must have both of these in order to be a CLAUSE.
What is a SUBJECT and a PREDICATE?
100
A conjunction that introduces a dependent clause (subordinate clause).
What is a SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION?
100
Writers add these to their writing by using synonyms, antonyms, explanations and examples to help you figure out what they meant.
What are CONTEXT CLUES?
100
A type of writing used to explain, describe or inform readers about a specific topic.
What is expository writing.
100
A word that connects two INDEPENDENT CLAUSES together in a sentence.
What is a COORDINATING CONJUNCTION?
200
A group of related words that include a subject and a predicate that MAKE SENSE ON THEIR OWN.
What is an independent clause?
200
A type sentence that includes a subordinating conjunction, dependent clause and an independent clause is a _____________.
What is a COMPLEX SENTENCE?
200
When reading a story and you make an educated guess about something that is not explicitly observed in the story, you are making an _____________.
What is an INFERENCE?
200
The first paragraph in an expository essay is called the ______________.
What is an introduction?
200
A type of sentence that includes a coordinating conjunction and two independent clauses.
What is a COMPOUND SENTENCE?
300
In order to make the following sentence a dependent clause (subordinate clause) I need to add something. What is it?
Luis and Evelin walked to the park.
What is a SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION?
300
One of these words is not a subordinating conjunction, which is it?
although because after until
unless when yet while
What is YET?
300
Which word/s in the following sentence serves as a transition:
Although the book is difficult to read, it is very interesting.
What is ALTHOUGH?
300
A true story about an experience or event in life that is written in first person point of view is called _____________.
What is a Personal Narrative?
300
The acronym FANBOYS is used to remember the COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS. The B in FANBOYS stands for
What is BUT?
400
The following phrase is a _________.
After Tamijai and Frederic went to school yesterday.
What is a DEPENDENT CLAUSE?
400
There is something missing in the following sentence, what is it?
When we went to Costa Rica we met a plant doctor.
What is a comma?
400
Cues that signal relationships between ideas and help readers understand what they are reading more logically are______________.
What are Transitional Words and Phrases?
400
After Pre-Writing and Drafting, the third part of the writing process is ____________.
What is REVISING?
400
Combine these sentences to make a compound sentence.
Beyonce made a new video. Everyone loved it.
What is Beyonce made a new video, and everyone loved it.
500
When you put an independent clause before a dependent clause in a complex sentence, you ____________ need a comma in between the clauses.
What is DO NOT?
500
How can I change this complex sentence into a sentence where the dependent clause comes FIRST?
We went to the movies last night after we went to dinner.
What is After we went to dinner, we went to the movies last night.
500
A word that comes before a noun (or a pronoun) to show the noun's (or the pronoun's) relationship to another word in the sentence.
What is a PREPOSITION?
500
At the beginning of an introduction we use a ________ to get the reader's attention.
What is a hook?
500
In the following sentence something is missing. What?
Ty'Mia bought a new coat and she wore it to the party.