A food used as a visual to help remember the parts of an essay.
What is a cheeseburger?
100
The comma goes (before or after) the FANBOY.
What is before.
100
A set of words that are not a complete sentence
What is a fragment
100
All sentences must have a ______ and a predicate.
What is subject?
100
Yesterday, the class ____________ ( write) an essay as a team.
What is wrote
200
The anchor of the introduction paragraph that strongly explains what the essay is about
What is a thesis statement?
200
The fan boy that fits into this sentence is:
I love pizza, ____ tacos are my favorite.
What is but.
200
Abbreviations used when we use cell phones and text to communicate are not allowed in essays. That is called.
What is text talk/text speak
200
Name one possible solution to solve this run on:
Allison and Barb ran for class president and they tied and had to have a run off race.
What is create new shorter sentences
OR
Remove excess ands and rewrite with commas in a series
200
The sisters and brothers _____ ( help) their mom yesterday.
What is helped, as and makes a plural subject
300
The paragraphs between the introduction and conclusion
What is the body
300
Comma splices are when two independent clauses are connected with only a comma. A comma needs one of THESE to be strong enough to make it connect. ( this has a funny name to help us remember)
What is FANBOY ( for, and, nor, but, or, yet)
300
When you speak about yourself, you should always capitalize this.
What is I
300
I joined a gym. To exercise. Get a Tan. Get fit.
What is I joined a gym to exercise, get a tan, and get fit.
300
Holly or the boys will _____ (buy) the food for the party.
What is buy ( agrees with the subject closes to the verb)
400
a minimum number of five of these in an essay or 1-3-1 for short
What is a paragraph?
400
Provide a correct way to solve this comma splice:
Judy broke her ankle, she was in pain.
What is
Judy broke her ankle, so/and she was in pain.
Judy broke her ankle; she was in pain.
Variations to rewrite it as one or two sentences.
400
I went ______________ (their, there, they're) to see the best concert that I have ever seen. (They're, Their, There)____________ the best band EVER!
What is there / They're
400
the following paragraph has an error. Where is it and what does it need?----------
Gustov is a big lover of horses. Each year he goes to a huge exhibition. He watches the demonstrations, looks at exhibits, and meets with friends. Goes to see the Clydesdales. They are horses of unusual size.
What is 'Goes to see the Clydesdales" and needs a
subject ( he)
400
Yesterday, he runs a big race and jumps all of the hurdles in the relay.
What is
Yesterday he ran a big race and jumped all of the hurdles in the relay.
500
these two vital paragraphs hold the essay together
What is the introduction and conclusion
500
Two of the three easy ways to solve a comma splice.
What are comma and FANBOY, semicolon, edit and/or use periods.
500
When two words are shortened and added together with an apostrophe.
What is a contraction, which we should never use in an essay!
500
Cory loves food he has his own blog about restaurants and chefs.
This sentence is a _________?
What is run on
500
Progressive in past progressive, present progressive, and present perfect progressive means ____ and we need a ___ verb to make it work.
What is an action continues over time ( progress) and we need a helping verb