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Spelling Rules
Complete and Incomplete Sentences
Subjects and Predicates
Types of Verbs
Punctuation
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This word is always capitalized.

What is I?

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Maria runs quickly.
What is a complete sentence?
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Every subject has one.
What is a noun?
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The verb and its tense in this sentence: We are learning grammar today.
What is ARE LEARNING, an example of the progressive tense. It is used to show continuing action.
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Where commas belong in this sentence: When I think of you my heart sings.
What is after HEART? When I think of you, my heart sings.
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The rule that makes a plural out of a word ending in consonant-y (as in tardy).

What is change the Y to Iand add ES?

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When I am alone in the shower.
What is an incomplete sentence?
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Every predicate has one.
What is a verb?
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The verb and its type in the following sentence: I have studied very hard for the STAAR test.
What is HAVE STUDIED, an example of the perfect tense? It shows something that happened in the past but affects the present.
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The missing punctuation in this sentence. Maricela's favorite color is green but I prefer blue.
What is put a comma after the word green? Maricela's favorite color is green, but I prefer blue. Note that the comma is attached to the word that comes before!
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The rule explaining which comes first, the i or the e.

What is I before E, except after C, or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh?

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MaryBeth who is the best person on the team and should have won the race.
What is an incomplete sentence?
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The subject of the following sentence: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
What is FOX?
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The verb and its type in the following sentence: Mary was disappointed by her grade in Advanced Economics.
What is WAS DISAPPOINTED, an example of the passive voice. It's used to show passivity and helplessness.
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Two ways to combine two independent clauses (aka, complete sentences) such as My husband plays golf. I'd rather read.
What is COMMA + FANBOY or a SEMICOLON? My husband plays golf, but I'd rather read. My husband plays golf; I'd rather read. NOTE: the FANBOYS are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
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The rule explaining how to make a plural from a word that ends in a vowel+y, as in essay.

What is leave the y alone and add s, as in essays.

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If you love me let me know.
What is a complete sentence?
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The verb in the following sentence: Jasmine and Joseph jumped up and joined the dance (the jitter-bug, of course).
What is JUMPED AND JOINED?
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The very and its type in the following sentence: At 10:00 p.m., I will have been studying for four hours.
What is WILL HAVE BEEN STUDYING, an example of the future perfect progressive tense.
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Where commas belong in this sentence: Doctor Edgar Laird a professor of English at Texas State University taught me how to punctuate.
What is after LAIRD and UNIVERSITY? Doctor Edgar Laird, a professor of English at Texas State University, taught me how to punctuate. NOTE: the punctuation is ALWAYS attached to the word that comes before.
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What do apostrophes replace in contractions


Letters

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Because you can't control yourself I have no choice but to ground you.

What is a complete sentence?

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The subject and the verb in the following inverted sentence: There are two toddlers taking their first steps.

What is TODDLERS (subject) and ARE TAKING (verb)? The word THERE acts as a placeholder. Remove it, and the sentence becomes: Two toddlers are taking their first steps.

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The verbs and their types in the following sentence: I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Wiener.

What are WISH, and WERE, 

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Correct way to punctuate this sentence: No matter how hard I worked and I worked very hard indeed I still couldn't pass that test.

 No matter how hard I worked, and I worked very hard indeed, I still couldn't pass that test.