Types of English Questions Flashcards
How many different types of grammar type questions are there
6
Name all grammar skill questions
Clausework, comma work, verb error, possessives, transition words, phrasing
What’s a clauswork questing asking?
Semicolon, colons, dashes, and periods
What’s a comma work questing asking?
About commas
What’s a verb error questing asking?
4 different conjunctions of a verb
What’s a possessives questing asking?
About apostrophes
What’s a transitions questing asking?
4 different transition words
What’s a phrasing question asking?
A rephrased answer
What’s a rhetorical skills question
A question about the passage you read
What’s the process for clausework questions?
- Look at everything before punctuation and identify it as independent dependent or phrase
- Do same but for the next sentence
- Eliminate as you can
- Look to the structure you found and see how they relate to each other
Whats the process for verb error questions?
1) Identify subject
2) Identify verb and see if they match
Check the subject verb agreement (see if they match regarding plurality)
3) check tense if the above doesn’t eliminate all other answers
What’s the process for phrasing questions?
1.) look for redundancy
2.) look for misplaced modifiers
What’s the overarching rule by phrasing questions?
The point of the answer is to give more clarity by taking out or adding words
What’s the process for transition questions?
1) read the sentence before and read the transition sentence without the transition word
2) ask it the sentences are contrasting or continuing
3a) if contrasting then answer question correctly
3b) if continuing check further for what type of continuation it is. (Example, cause and effect, Further related information, situated in time) and then answer question correctly
What’s the process for rhetorical questions?
1) understand the question
2) go look at full paragraph that relates to question
3) answer the specific question with a specific answer
Define verb:
describe action or state of being
Define noun:
Person, place, object, ideas
Define pronoun:
Replace noun with she, he, I, etc…
Define preposition:
Words that lets you know time or locations ex: next to, above, after, during
Define conjunction:
a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause
Ex: so, for, and
Define adjective:
Modify nouns and pronouns
Ex: happy, big, red
Define adverb:
Modifies a verbs
Ex: very, never, really
What’s the process for comma questions?
- Identify each comma
- Figure out what the function it is serving regarding clauses
- Only put in commas with confirmed functions
What’s the process for possessive questions?
- Determine whether possessive is necessary (ex the __Noun2__ of __Noun1__)
- If it is necessary, check if its singular or plural
- If it’s not, then there’s no apostrophe
What’s a dependent clause?
A sentence with subject and verb that doesn’t make a standalone thought
What’s an independent clause?
A sentence with subject and verb that does make a standalone thought
What’s a phrase
Something with only a subject or verb