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CPCC ENG 080 Review
Basic writing
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a noun? | A person, place, or thing |
| What is a verb? | An action or state of being. |
| What is an article? | a, an, or the |
| What is a preposition? | A word that shows location. |
| What is a pronoun? | A word that replaces/renames a noun. |
| What is a conjunction? | A word that joins words, clauses, or phrases together. |
| What is an adjective? | A word that describes a noun. |
| What is an adverb? | A word that describes/modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. |
| What is a sentence? | A group of words that contains a subject, a verb, and a complete thought. |
| What is a fragment? | A group of words that is missing either a subject, a verb, or a complete thought. |
| What is a subject? | The person or thing that the sentence is talking about. |
| What is an independent clause? | A group of words that contains a subject, a verb, and a complete thought. Also known as a sentence. |
| What part of speech are the following words: is, have, smells, was | verbs |
| What is the subject of the following sentence? Chris threw a tantrum when he lost the game. | Chris |
| What are the FANBOYS usually known as? | coordinating conjunction. |
| What is a paragraph? | A group of words that talks about one idea. |
| What are the three parts of a paragraph? | topic sentence, the body, concluding sentence |
| What is the topic sentence of a paragraph | Usually the first sentence. It gives the main idea of your paragraph. |
| What is the body of the paragraph? | Explains your topic sentence with facts and examples. |
| What is the concluding sentence? | The last sentence of the paragraph. It restates your main idea in different words. |
| Which sentence is a better topic sentence? Living alone is expensive. Living alone is expensive and so are cars. | Living alone is expensive is better because it only talks about one idea. |
| What does "unity in a paragraph" mean? | That you only discuss one idea in your paragraph. |
| What is a dependent clause? | It is a group of words that depends on an independent clause to make sense. |
| What is prewriting? | Getting your ideas down on paper before you write a paragraph. You might use a list, an outline, a tree map, etc. |
| A well written paragraph should look like what type of food? | A juicy hamburger. |
| When you combine two sentences with a FANBOYS, where does the comma go? | Before the FANBOYS I love to write stories, and I love to read. |
| What punctuation should you use to join two sentences together if you don't want to add any extra words? | a semicolon ; I love to write stories; I love to read. |
| What do you do in an illustration paragraph? | It uses specific examples to support a general point. |
| What is a run-on sentence? | A sentence that goes on and on without the proper punctuation. |
| What is a narrative paragraph? | A paragraph that tells a story about something that happened to you or someone you know. |
| What type of order do you usually use in a narrative? | Time order. |
| How can you get your reader involved in your narrative? | Provide vivid details so they can imagine what you're talking about. |
| What two things for a narrative topic sentence do? | Introduce your topic AND the point you're trying to make about it. |
| What is wrong with the following sentence? It's late so I think I'll go home. now. | It's a run-on. You need a comma before so. It's late, so I think I'll go home. |
| What is wrong with the following sentence? Because it was cold. | It's a fragment. It's not a complete thought. |
| What is a descriptive paragraph? | A paragraph that uses specific words to tell EXACTLY what someone or something looks like. |
| What type of order should you use in a descriptive paragraph? | Space Order. |
| Why should you use prepositions of location in your descriptive paragraph? | So your reader can picture exactly where everything is. |
| What are sensory details? | Descriptive details that use the 5 senses: taste, smell, sight, hearing, touch. |
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