Sentence types
The boy walked along while the puppy chased squirrels has a subordinating conjunction in the middle so it is this type of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
Since the root photo means light, photograph means
What is writing with light?
This type of word is typically anything a squirrel can be to a tree.
What is a preposition?
This contains the beginning, middle, and end of a story and is broken up into five parts.
What is plot?
This can be determined for certain sections of expository writings, or for entire pieces, and it has supporting details to go with it.
What is the main idea?
Do you like the smell of fresh cut grass is a question that is now referred to as this type of sentence.
What is an interrogative?
The words biography and biology contain the same root that has this meaning
What is bio means life?
If you rename a noun within the same sentence you have used one of these.
What is an appositive?
This is something that cannot contain character names or story details.
What is theme?
This type of language uses words that help you see, smell, taste, hear, and touch what is happening.
What is sensory language?
Put your homework away is a simple kind of this sentence.
What is an imperative?
A sea creature with eight legs and a shape that has eight sides share this root.
What is octo?
These are used when you write a compound sentence. And, but, and or are the common three.
This term is used to describe things that are written in the order that they happened.
What is chronological order?
This type of figurate language is used to give human characteristics to something that is non-human.
What is personification?
Carl wanted a snack, and he bought a Snickers from the store is this type of sentence.
What is a compound sentence?
This national government building shares a root with a five sided figure
These are nouns that are associated with feelings and that you cannot see.
What are abstract nouns?
This describes characters like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer who change throughout the story.
What is dynamic?
What is an idiom?
Sue and Lila were eating lunch in the cafeteria is a simple sentence that contains this.
What is a compound subject?
This root is found in a device that holds a camera and a person who walks.
What is pod or ped?
These are used to take the place of nouns.
What are pronouns?
These are needed to help readers with unfamiliar words. Sometimes they are found within the same sentence or in surrounding sentences.
What are context clues?
This type of language makes writing better and more clear.
What is intense language?