Academic Writing Style
Adjectives
Comparisons
Person & Voice
Punctuation
100

This refers to the level of formality in writing.

What is register?

100

Adjectives modify this part of speech.

What are nouns?

100

The form when comparing two things.

What is comparative?

100

The three persons used in writing.

What are first, second, and third?

100

The usual use of a semicolon.

What is connect two related independent clauses in one sentence?

200

The tests avoid this when it comes to repetition.

What is redundancy?

200

An adjective that forms a single unit with a noun.

What is a cumulative adjective?

200

The form when comparing three or more things.

What is superlative?

200

The voice used in the test passages.

What is active voice?

200

When a semicolon is used in a serial list.

What is when the list-units contain a comma?

300

This is a pattern followed in lists of things.

What is parallel structur?

300

Adjectives the independently modify a noun.

What are coordinate adjectives?

300

The words used with the comparative form.

What are -er words and more/less than?

300

The voice in which the subject performs the action.

What is the active voice?

300

A dash can be used instead of these types of punctuation.

What are a comma and a colon?

400

The author's opinion toward the subject revealed mainly through adjectives.

What is tone?

400

The punctuation that divides two coordinate adjectives.

What is a comma?

400

The words used with the superlative form.

What are -est words and most/least?
400

The voice in which the grammatical object performs the action.

What is the passive voice?

400

When a comma separates two independent clauses in one sentence.

What is a comma splice?

500

The three modes of writing found in test passages.

What are narrative, informative, and argumentative.

500

The person that only shows up in the narrative passages.

What is the first person?

500
The punctuation used to reveal an example or explanation of what came before it.

What is a colon?