terminology

Question 1

concrete nouns

Answer 1

these are thing that you can touch like concrete see smell hear or taste other examples include chair ,keyboard money water

Question 2

abstract nouns

Answer 2

things that you cannot touch see smell hear or taste
e.g beauty bravery anger freedom love
normally emotions

Question 3

proper nouns

Answer 3

name a specific person place organisation or thing and always begin with a capital letter Shirley Buckingham Palace

Question 4

collective nouns

Answer 4

a groups of things
a gaggle of geese
an anthology of poems

Question 5

compound nouns

Answer 5

when two or more nouns are joined together to make a collective noun hose pipe,football sister-in-law,stepmother

Question 6

countable nouns

Answer 6

things that you can count so you can make them plural boys chairs

Question 7

uncountable nouns

Answer 7

these are nouns that you cannot count and they do not have a plural form
water sugar money fire

Question 8

what is a simple sentence

Answer 8

a subject and a verb and can be long

Question 9

why do writers use simple sentences

Answer 9

to emphasise a particular idea

can also hook a reader into the story and invites them to move on

Question 10

minor sentence

Answer 10

when there is no verb but you can still understand the meaning of the sentence
im going now.home.to bed.

Question 11

compound sentences

Answer 11

two sentences joined together with a fanboy conjunction

Question 12

what are the FANBOY conjunctions

Answer 12

for,and,nor,but,or,yet,so
there are only 7
there is also usually a comma before the conjunction
i wasted time ,and now time doth waste me

Question 13

complex sentences

Answer 13

if you use more conjunctions than the fanboys then this is a complex sentence
although,eventhough
as if as muchas before even if
AND THERE IS NO COMMA BEFORE THE CONJUNCTION
i am going home because i am tired

Question 14

what is the exception for commas in complex sentences

Answer 14

however if a complex sentence starts with a conjunction then it needs a comma
although it was late, she decided to phone her friend.

Question 15

in your own writing what should you do

Answer 15

create an overwhelming sentece to refelct how the narrators feeling lethargic and tired to show intended effect to the examiner

Question 16

how else can you vary your own sentence structure

Answer 16

by placing the subordinate clause at the beginning and end
shirley ,thinking complex thoughts, walked into school.
this is known as BRACKETING COMMAS.
or double subordinate clauses.
shirley walked into school,having recovered from a common cold,thinking common thoughts.
cos the others do not make sense on their own

Question 17

what is comma splicing

Answer 17

using commas to join complete sentences together
the boy walked into his school, he did some work and then he left
it actually wrong because the commas is separating two separate sentences a simple sentence and a compound sentence and only full stops do this therefore this is not the commas job

Question 18

what should you do at the end of your creative writing

Answer 18

read through putting in commas in the right place

the commas should not divide complete sentences-full stops do this

Question 19

why do writers sue complex sentences

Answer 19

the is more of an opportunity to give rich and descriptive imagery

Question 20

conjunctive adverbs

Answer 20

they cannot join sentences un they are used with partuicular punctuaion marks
however ,furthermore
and you can only use a conjunctive adverb to join two sentences if you use a semi colon and then a comma

the big cats are frightening;accordingly, i kept my distance

i had an ice cream;meanwhile my friend eat her sandwich

also another way
at 5 i was supposed to eat my breakfast.however, i was still getting ready.

also another way to include in you DESCRIPTIVE WRITING
was that at 5 i was supposed to eat my breakfast.i was, however,still getting ready
using a BRACKETING COMMA

OR
at 5 i was supposed to be eating my breakfast .i was still getting reading,however.
but somtimes you do not need the comma
shirley worked all day.she THEN went home

Question 21

with your paragraphs what should you do

Answer 21

indent do not leave a line

Question 22

when should you change paragraphs

Answer 22

when there is a new subject

Question 23

what are power paragraphs

Answer 23

simple sentence as a paragraph to emphaise the strength of your feelings or you could be stressing a point or emphaisiing a strong emotion.

Question 24

how can you craft paragraph length to get high marks

Answer 24

if your writing a story about a mad woman then as t=she gets more mad craft the paragraph length so that they get shorter and shorter as she becomes more delusional to delibately emphasie it to the examiners to contrast to the long paragraphs

Question 25

dashes

Answer 25

you do not need a space between a dash and the words as well as it being longer than a hyphen
they are like brackets but the dash emphasise the bit in the middle
she is lazy—and quite smelly—for a girl.

Question 26

active sentence

Answer 26

the subject always does the verb
the girl smiled.
the dog chased to ball

Question 27

why would a writer use an active sentence

Answer 27

they are dynamic they speak of action and can make you sound firm decisive and strong or they can add passion and strength to your feelings

Question 28

passive sentences

Answer 28

they focus on the object
the main use is when THE SUBJECT IS UNIMPORTANT OR THE READER HAD=S NO KNOWLEDGE AS TO WHO THE SUBJECT IS

the party was arranged for the next following day
it is not important to know who the party is for therefore the writer has been deliberately vague.