Writing structures
Life Sentence
VERBS
Miscel
laneous
o..o..ogt
100
The sentence that tells what the paper is about.
What is the topic sentence.
100
base, present participle, past, past participle.
What are the four principal parts of the verb.
100
Read every possible answer.
How should you answer every multiple choice question.
200
This type of sentence has one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
200
Has a subject and a verb but can't stand alone.
What is a dependent (or subordinate) clause.
200
This word looks like a verb, but it ends in ing and acts like a noun.
What is a gerund?
200
Modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
200
Ask, Predict, Verify
What is a reading strategy for improving comprehension.
300
Comparison and Contrast, Chronological order, problem and solution, description.
What are different types of text structures?
300
A sentence that does not end, does not have a period, and just keeps giving more information.
What is a run-on sentence.
300
have, has had
What are the helping verbs used with the perfect tenses?
300
pre, re, trans, sub
What are prefixes?
300
400
What is the score you have to have pass any OGT test?
400
Benefits to the audience, expertise, facts and figures, and emotional appeal.
What are the four techniques used to write a persuasive paragraph?
400
These are added to a sentence to give more information about the adjective, adverb or verb. It answers the questions, where, how, and why.
What is an adverb clause?
400
1st, 2nd and 3rd person
What are the pronoun groups we use to conjugate the verb?
400
"What does this question want me to do?
What is a talking point question used to help answer extended response questions.
400
Drawing pictures or images to help work out an answer to an extended response.
What is mind mapping?
500
A phrase used to identify or describe a noun in the sentence. Usually comes write after the noun it describes and is separated from the other sentences with a comma.
What is an appositive?
500
Category + topic + support sentences. Helps to tell what the main idea is and how it will be supported in the essay.
What is a thesis statement?
500
This word looks like a verb but acts like an adjective and usually ends with ed or en.
What is a past participle?
500
on, in, around, through, under, over, etc.
What is a preposition?
500
dict, scrib, port, tract
What are roots?