These often tell where things are happening. They add a little setting to a sentence, and provide the reader with additional information. You more often than not find these in a phrase which includes it and a noun or pronoun.
What is a preposition?
100
A paragraph must have these things to be considered a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence, supporting details, elaboration, and a conclusion?
100
This tool is used expressly to develop hearing images. They are spelled like the sound they make.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Without this part of speech we would never know the following about nouns: color, size, shape, feeling.
What is an adjective?
200
Without this a paragraph would lack substance. It would read like a list, and points made would go undeveloped.
What is elaboration?
200
This is a tool that makes your writing sound snappy. It does not necessarily add additional information for the reader, it just makes it sound clever. Sounding snappy is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
300
More often than not, this part of speech ends in ly. They answer the following questions about verbs: how, what, when, and why?
What is an adverb?
300
Everything else in the paragraph supports this. It is the umbrella top under which the other elements will fall. In a narrative, it will tell who, what, when and where.
What is the topic sentence?
300
"The wind, a real bully, kicked over the garbage can." This is and example of this writing tool.
What is a metaphor?
400
This part of speech helps us to eliminate choppiness in writing. It allows us to combine short sentences into compound and complex sentences, and allows us to double up subjects, predicates, and direct objects.
What is a conjunction?
400
These introduce points to support the topic, but do not necessarily provide specifics?
What are the supporting details?
400
These two literary devices (tools) are used to compare things for the purpose of creating an image for the reader. One uses like or as or er or est suffixes to make the comparison. The other does not.
What are simile and metaphor?
500
The English language consists of these parts of speech.
What is noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection?
500
Transitions from one idea to the next are found here. Examples: first, later, to begin, finally.