Parts Of Speech

Question 1

What are the four basic sentence pattern?

Answer 1

1) subject + verb
2) subject + verb + object
3) subject + verb + complement
4) subject + verb + indirect object + direct object

Question 2

What are the 8 parts of speech and which purpose do they serve?

Answer 2

Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adverbs
Adjectives 
Articles
Conjunction 
Interjections

Question 3

What’s the difference between adjectives and adverbs?

Answer 3

Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns where adverbs modifies verbs

Question 4

What do adverbs do?

Answer 4

Adverbs modify the verb

Question 5

What are coordinating conjunctions?

Answer 5

Coordinating Conjunctions Are Fanboys

For
And
Nor
But
Or 
Yet
So

Question 6

Which parts of speech can serve as the subject of a sentence ?

Answer 6

Nouns and pronouns

Question 7

What is the relationship between subordinating conjunctions and complex sentences?

Answer 7

The subordinating conjunctions help to create a complex sentence by joining one subject and two closets together to illustrates a working relationship

Question 8

Explain the common uses of the colon and list three sentences to explain to use.

Answer 8

List
Emphasis
Non-grammatical

Question 9

What are the two purposes apostrophes generally serve?

Answer 9

Possession
Contraction
Plural for non-grammatical

Question 10

What purpose do prepositions serve?

Answer 10

Prepositions bring emphasis on a clause or subjective and Indicates a word or set of words location (in, near, beside, on top of) or some other relationship between a noun or pronoun and other parts of the sentence (about, after, besides, instead of, in accordance wit

Question 11

What is the difference between coordinating and subordinating Conjunctions?

Answer 11

Coordinating conjunctions join dependent clauses and subordinating conjunction’s join independent clauses

Question 12

What are four ways to use a comma?

Answer 12

Separation of independent clauses

Series of nouns

Quote

Appositive sentence structures

Question 13

What is a comma splice?

Answer 13

These are similar to run on sentences as they have two sentences that should be separate but connected by a comma

Question 14

What is a fused sentence?

Answer 14

When there are two independent clauses that are connected in a sentence

Question 15

What is a sentence fragment?

Answer 15

Sentence Fragment Does Not Have Everything in The sentence to Make it be a sentence such as Subject And Predicate

Question 16

What are the three criteria according to which a paragraph can be judged ?

Answer 16

Unity
Concise
Completeness

Question 17

What are the six elements of a successful thesis statement? See writing for success, chapter 9

Answer 17

Check

Question 18

What is the difference between nouns and pronouns?

Answer 18

Nouns are and included proper names such as a person, place or thing. Pronouns are he, she, you, I, we, them

Question 19

What’s the difference between complex and compound sentences?

Answer 19

Complex uses two independent clauses and is connected with subordinate conjunctions whereas compounds only has one clause

Question 20

What is the relationship between in-text citations and the “References “ page?

Answer 20

In APA format, the citations are brief with the last name and date/page that ties itself to the references listed