English language skills

Question 1

Preposition

Answer 1

A word used to nouns, pronouns, and phrases (as of, to, for, with, on)

Question 2

Parallelism

Answer 2

A ideas in sentence should be expressed the same way (ex. Both a kind and generous person)

Question 3

Faulty Parallelism

Answer 3

ex. both kind and a generous person

Question 4

Fragment

Answer 4

A sentence that is missing something such as a subject (ex. Didn’t run fast enough)

Question 5

Perfect tenses

Answer 5

Present Perf (ex. I had worked, he had written) Past Perf (ex. I had worked, he had written) Future Perf (ex. I will have worked, he will have written)

Question 6

Past participle

Answer 6

begun, broken, eaten, spoken, given, grown, gotten, fallen

Question 7

Adjective

Answer 7

modify nouns or pronouns

Ex. blue, tall, long, second, three, several

Question 8

Adverb

Answer 8

Modify verbs, adjectives

ex. Quickly, away, yesterday, very, sometimes

Question 9

Capitalization

Answer 9

Capitalize adjectives derived from proper nouns (ex. My English teacher…), Capitalize titles when they preceed a proper name (ex. The Memo came from Dean Jacobson)

Question 10

Faulty Capitalization

Answer 10

Compass directions NWES, names of seasons, titles (ex.mom, dad, uncle, cousin, president, dean, major)