Question | Answer |
chronological order, true facts, part or all of life, written by another person | biography criteria |
has two sentences combined with and, or, but with a comma | compound sentence |
has two or more subjects | compound subject sentence |
the subject is doing two or more actions | compound predicate |
someone telling the story | narrator |
opposites | antonym |
similar | synonym |
reference book that gives synonyms and antonyms | thesaurus |
ending | conclusion |
main thought | topic |
shows movement | action verb |
links the subject to the predicate and stands ALONE -- is, are, was, were, am | linking verb |
helps ANOTHER verb-- is, are, was, were, am, have, has, had, could, should, would, might, may, can, will | helping verb |
helping verb and main verb together | verb phrase |
one subject and one predicate sentence, no compounds | simple sentence |
sounds the same, spelled differently, means differently-- sea/see | homophone |
sounds the same, spelled the same, means differently-- bark/ b | homography |
question | interrogative |
command | imperative |
excitement | exclamatory |
statement | declarative |
first person pronouns that appear in first writing; narrator is in the story talking | I, me, we, us, our, my, mine |
third person writing pronouns; narrator is outside of the story | they, her, she, him, them, his, it, he, you |
comma use-- letter salutation | Dear Fred, |
comma use-- letter closing | Yours truly, |
comma use-- dates | Friday, September 30, 2000 |
comma use-- appositive | George, my dad, likes to fish |
comma use-- talking directly | Helen, sit down. or Sit down, Helen. |
comman use-- series | She likes legends, myths, and fantasies |
comma use-- interjections | yes, no, hello, hi, hey, well, at the beginning of the sentence |