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Parts of Speech
Clauses
Fragments and Run-Ons
Apostrophes
Punctuating Dialogue
100
These words express strong feelings or sudden emotions.
What are interjections?
100
Any description of someone or something performing an action.
What is a clause?
100
The TWO things a fragment might be missing.
What are a subject and a predicate?
100
When you join two or more words with an apostrophe to make a shorter word, it's called a ____________.
What is a contraction?
100
Whenever a new character speaks, you need a new _______.
What is a paragraph?
200
These words express action or being.
What are verbs?
200
The two things a clause must contain.
What are a subject and predicate?
200
To form a complete sentence, a dependent clause needs to be linked with a(n) _________ clause.
What is independent?
200
In a contraction, the apostrophe goes _____________.
What is where the missing letters are?
200
If you start a sentence with a speech tag, you need a _______ before the first quotation mark.
What is a comma?
300
These words modify nouns.
What are adjectives?
300
The name for a sentence that contains just one clause.
What is a simple sentence?
300
If a sentence starts with a _________ conjunction and doesn't contain a comma, it's probably a fragment.
What is subordinating?
300
With most singular possessive nouns, the apostrophe goes ______ the "s."
What is before?
300
___________ the first letter of a quotation, even if it's in the middle of a sentence.
What is capitalize?
400
These words connect words, phrases, and sentences.
What are conjunctions?
400
The name for a type of sentence that joins one or more dependent clauses to an independent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
400
One way to fix a run-on is by adding a __________ after a comma.
What is a conjunction?
400
With most plural possessive nouns, the apostrophe goes _______ the "s."
What is after?
400
You can end a quotation with a period if the speech tag comes ________ the quotation.
What is before?
500
These words show the relationship between nouns and pronouns and other parts of the sentence.
What are prepositions?
500
Two clauses of this type can be joined by a semicolon or a comma + FANBOYS to make a compound sentence.
What is an independent clause?
500
Commas are not strong enough to hold together two independent clauses, but _________ and _________ are.
What are semicolons and periods?
500
Words like his, hers, yours, and ours are know as _________ __________.
What are possessive pronouns?
500
"How do you get an alien baby to sleep?" Connie asked. "I don't know," Mrs. Gaul said. "You _______," Connie joked.
What is rocket?