Verbals
This grammatical form is the "-ing" version of a verb that functions as a noun.
What is a gerund?
This verb mood is used for making statements of fact
What is the indicative mood?
What is citation?
In this voice, the subject of the sentence performs the action.
What is active voice?
Ms. Madson has this type of animal in her classroom.
What is a cockroach?
"Swimming in the lake" is an example of this grammatical form, which can act as the subject of a sentence.
What is a gerund?
This verb mood is used to express wishes, suggestions, or hypothetical situations.
What is the subjunctive mood?
When you are writing to defend a claim, you are doing this kind of writing.
What is argument?
This voice is used when the subject of the sentence receives the action.
What is passive voice?
Mr. Spencer has this hanging on his walls.
What are heavy metal band posters?
This sentence, "The book, written by the author, was popular," uses this verb form as an adjective to describe the noun.
What is a participle?
This verb mood is used to ask questions, often starting with a question word like "how," "what," or "why."
What is the interrogative mood?
When you are using information from the text, but using your own words, it is called this.
What is a paraphrase?
In the sentence "The dog chased the ball," the verb "chased" is in this voice.
What is active voice?
Mrs. Mortimer teaches Literature, Lit Lab, and this other class.
This verb form is used after certain verbs like "want" or "hope," and is usually preceded by "to."
What is an infinitive?
This verb mood is used to express a command, request, or instruction.
What is the imperative mood?
When you use a single sentence to state what your explanatory essay will be about, it is called this.
What is a thesis?
In the sentence "The cake was eaten by the children," the verb "was eaten" is in this voice.
What is passive voice?
Mrs. Thrasher went to this high school in West Ada.
What is Centennial?
This form of the verb functions as an adjective, often ending in "-ing" or "-ed."
What is a participle?
This verb mood expresses a situation that is conditional upon something else, often involving "would" or "could."
What is the conditional mood?
This type of writing is used to tell a real or imaginary story to entertain an audience.
What is narrative?
This voice is often preferred in scientific writing to focus on the action or result rather than the person performing it.
What is passive voice?
What is cheerleading?