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Putting Pen to Paper
100
A noun is one of these four things.
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
100
Proper nouns always begin with this.
What is a capital letter?
100
A sentence must express a complete thought and have what other two types of words?
What is a noun and a verb?
100
This is an adjective that means, "intended to explain or describe something." The paragraphs you wrote this school year were this kind of paragraph.
What is expository?
100
When you are given a topic to write about, you should do this first.
What is brainstorm?
200
These are nouns you can touch.
What are concrete nouns?
200
These are nouns that name a group.
What are collective nouns?
200
This expresses an incomplete thought OR is missing a subject OR is missing a verb.
What is a fragment?
200
A paragraph is a series of sentences about one ___________.
What is topic?
200
You do this when you start a new paragraph.
What is indent?
300
These are nouns that do not have mass and you cannot touch. They are often feelings or emotions.
What are abstract nouns?
300
These are words that come right before a noun and signal, "A noun is coming!"
What are articles?
300
This is a sentence that is two or more sentences run together without proper punctuation.
What is a run-on?
300
An expository paragraph should begin with this kind of sentence.
What is a topic sentence?
300
In Writing Foundations class, the following words were considered "banned _________________." good, bad, nice, pretty, big, little & very
What are adjectives?
400
These nouns name a person, place, or thing in general.
What are common nouns?
400
These are the three articles.
What are a, an, & the?
400
This group of words: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, & so are used with a comma to join sentences together.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
400
An expository sentence should end with this type of sentence.
What is a concluding sentence?
400
To improve your writing, first choose better nouns and _____________ verbs.
What is vivid?
500
These nouns name a specific person, place, thing or idea.
What are proper nouns?
500
If you find you are using boring, overused nouns in your writing, this is what you should do first.
What is use a thesaurus? OR What is choose a better noun?
500
This is what you can do to the length of your sentences to make your writing more interesting.
What is vary sentence length?
500
An expository paragraph should have these sentences in between the topic and the concluding sentences.
What are supporting ideas or details?
500
These words are used to link sentences and ideas.
What are transition words?