eng 101 exam

Question 1

noun

Answer 1

• a person, place, concept, or object
• Alexis, New York

Question 2

pronoun

Answer 2

• words you substitute for specific nouns when the reader or listener already knows which specific noun you’re referring to
• “Jennifer was supposed to be here at eight,” then follow it with “She’s always late; next time I’ll tell her to be here a half hour earlier.”

Question 3

verb

Answer 3

• Verbs are words that describe specific actions, like running, winning, and being amazing

Question 4

adjective

Answer 4

• words that describe nouns
• “The movie was funny.”

Question 5

adverb

Answer 5

• An adverb is a word that describes an adjective, a verb, or another adverb
• “I entered the room quietly.”

Question 6

preposition

Answer 6

• Prepositions tell you the relationships between other words in a sentence.
• “I left my bike leaning against the garage.” In this sentence, against is the preposition because it tells us where you left your bike.

Question 7

conjunction

Answer 7

• Conjunctions make it possible to build complex sentences that express multiple ideas.
• “I like marinara sauce and alfredo sauce, but I don’t like puttanesca sauce. —
  In this sentence, and and but are the two conjunctions that link your ideas together.

Question 8

interjection

Answer 8

• a word that expresses emotion
• “Wow! Hey Ouch!”

Question 9

fragment

Answer 9

• an incomplete sentence
• “Ran as fast as he could.”

Question 10

comma splice

Answer 10

• when the sentence contains two independent clauses without a linking conjunction
• “I went to the store today, we were out of apples,” contains a comma splice because the clauses before and after the comma are independent, and there is no conjunction to link them

Question 11

fused sentences

Answer 11

• a sentence in which two independent clauses are joined without any punctuation
• “The cat ran away the toddler chased it.” –> “The cat ran away. The toddler chased.” or “The cat ran away; the toddler chased it.”

Question 12

subject verb agreement

Answer 12

• Verbs must agree with subjects in number and in person (1st/2nd/3rd).
• EXAMPLE: The dog drinks his water every day.

Question 13

parallelism

Answer 13

• Parallelism refers to using similar words, clauses, phrases, sentence structure, or other grammatical elements to emphasize similar ideas in a sentence
• EXAMPLE: “Olympic athletes usually like practicing, competing, and eating ice cream sandwiches.”

Question 14

punctuation

Answer 14

• period, comma, apostrophe, quotation, question, exclamation, brackets, braces, parenthesis, dash, hyphen, ellipsis, colon, semicolon

Question 15

coordinating conjunctions

Answer 15

FANBOYS

Question 16

pronoun reference

Answer 16

• the practice of making pronouns refer clearly to the words they replace
  EX: Wrong: “The mother called the daughter back to clean up her mess.”
  Correct: “When the daughter made a mess, the mother called her back to clean it up.”

Question 17

parallel structure

Answer 17

• using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance
• EX: “The manager wrote his report quickly, accurately, and thoroughly.”

Question 18

Authors Purpose

Answer 18

• An author’s purpose is the main reason he or she has for writing.
• The three basic purposes are to inform, to persuade, and to entertain.

Question 19

plagiarism

Answer 19

• the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own

Question 19

Parts of a body paragraph

Answer 19

• Topic sentence.
• Evidence cycle (Assertion, evidence, commentary)
• Concluding statement.
• Transition.

Question 20

patterns of organization

Answer 20

• provides an outline for the ideas to flow
• Chronological.
• Compare-contrast.
• Cause-effect.
• Problem-solution.
• Claim-counterclaim

Question 21

KNOW:

Answer 21

• all forms of MLA documentation, formatting, parenthetical citations, etc