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Expository Extras!
FANBOYS
Editing
Revising
Compound/
Complex Sentences
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What is the purpose of an expository essay?
What is to explain a topic?
100
This conjunction means opposite
What is but?
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What answer choice can you eliminate 95% of the time?
What is D, make no change.
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What resource can you use to help with editing(spelling words correctly)?
What is a dictionary?
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Diego and Cecilia both take notes in class; they passed their test with flying colors.
What is compound ;
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How should you start each topic sentence?
With a transition word.
200
This conjunction means equal or both.
What is and?
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What change, if any, should be made to this sentence: Your brain is responsible for controlling the muscles that you move intentional. a. Add a comma before for b. Change controlling to controling c. Change intentional to intentionally d. This sentence should not be changed.
What is C. Change intentional to intentionally
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The word because does not appropriately connect the two clauses in the following sentence: The young boy led his schoolmates in songs because rescuers worked to free them from the wreckage. Which word should replace because? a. if b. while c. although d. where
What is b. while?
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Because Diego and Cecilia both take notes in class, they passed their test with flying colors.
What is complex? because
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What can you refer to as an example in an expository essay?
What is H.E.L.P.?
300
This conjunction gives you a choice.
What is or?
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What change, if any, should be made to this sentence: Your brain helps you breath, keeps your heart beating, and directs your stomach to digest food. a. Change breath to breathe b. Change beating to beeting c. Change directs to directing d. This sentence should not be changed.
What is A. Change breath to breathe
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Which sentence in this paragraph should be deleted? How could a child be so brave? Why had a little boy risked his own life to save his fellow students? Where was the courageous boy's mother? When reporters questioned the young boy, he answered, "I was the hall monitor. It was my job to look after my classmates."
What is "Where was the courageous boy's mother"?
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What is the cause? What is the effect? Because Diego and Cecilia both take notes in class, they passed their test with flying colors.
Cause: Diego and Cecilia both take notes in class Effect: they passed their test with flying colors.
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How should you conclude your expository essay?
What is revisit the thesis, summarize your main idea?
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This conjunction is used as a result.
What is so?
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What change, if any, needs to be made to this sentence? With all its intricacies, the human brain is a sensative and delicate organ. a. Change intricacies to intracacies b. Change sensative to sensitive c. Change delicate to delacate d. No changes are needed.
What is B. Change sensative to sensitive
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Which sentence could be added to the end of this paragraph to strengthen the introduction to this paper? During the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics, most people weren't watching the athletes. Instead they were watching the small boy who was walking next to the famous Chinese basketball player. The boy's entrance brought enthusiastic cheers. That's because nine-year-old Lin Hao was more than just a kid. a. He was a great kid. b. He was in school. c. He was a national hero. d. He was exceptionally cute.
What is C. He was a national hero.
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The girls in my class went to the park and swam in the pool while the boys all rode bikes and chased after the girls.
What is complex, while.
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What is a controlling idea?
What is your thesis...what is paper is all about...your "thick question" being answered.
500
This conjunction means the same as the word "because".
What is for?
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What change, if any, should be made to this sentence: It's main functions are to control your balance and to enable your muscles to work together. a. Change It's to Its b. Change are to is c. Change balance to balence d. No change needs to be made in this sentence.
What is A. Change It's to Its
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(1) Just a few months earlier, Hao had been at school on a typical day. (2) Without warning, the ground beneath him began to tremble. (3) Hao's school was at the very heart of an earthquake. (4) Windows shattered, and shelves toppled over. (5) Finally the whole building collapsed. (6) Hao somehow managed to climb out of the rubble and save himself. (7) He risked his life to pull two of his classmates to safety. The author would like to add the following sentence to this paragraph. Then, despite his own injuries, Hao went back into the ruins. Where is the BEST place to insert this sentence? a. After sentence 1 b. After sentence 2 c. After sentence 4 d. After sentence 6
What is d. After sentence 6
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I need you all to pass your benchmark test, and you need to pass your STAAR test as well.
What is compound? , and