Types of English Questions Flashcards

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How many different types of grammar type questions are there

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6

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Name all grammar skill questions

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Clausework, comma work, verb error, possessives, transition words, phrasing

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What’s a clauswork questing asking?

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Semicolon, colons, dashes, and periods

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4
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What’s a comma work questing asking?

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About commas

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5
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What’s a verb error questing asking?

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4 different conjunctions of a verb

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6
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What’s a possessives questing asking?

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About apostrophes

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7
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What’s a transitions questing asking?

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4 different transition words

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8
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What’s a phrasing question asking?

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A rephrased answer

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9
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What’s a rhetorical skills question

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A question about the passage you read

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10
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What’s the process for clausework questions?

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  1. Look at everything before punctuation and identify it as independent dependent or phrase
  2. Do same but for the next sentence
  3. Eliminate as you can
  4. Look to the structure you found and see how they relate to each other
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11
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Whats the process for verb error questions?

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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

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12
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What’s the process for phrasing questions?

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1.) look for redundancy
2.) look for misplaced modifiers

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13
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What’s the overarching rule by phrasing questions?

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The point of the answer is to give more clarity by taking out or adding words

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14
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What’s the process for transition questions?

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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

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What’s the process for rhetorical questions?

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1) understand the question
2) go look at full paragraph that relates to question
3) answer the specific question with a specific answer

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16
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Define verb:

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describe action or state of being

17
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Define noun:

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Person, place, object, ideas

18
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Define pronoun:

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Replace noun with she, he, I, etc…

19
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Define preposition:

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Words that lets you know time or locations ex: next to, above, after, during

20
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Define conjunction:

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a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause
Ex: so, for, and

21
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Define adjective:

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Modify nouns and pronouns
Ex: happy, big, red

22
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Define adverb:

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Modifies a verbs
Ex: very, never, really

23
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What’s the process for comma questions?

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  1. Identify each comma
  2. Figure out what the function it is serving regarding clauses
  3. Only put in commas with confirmed functions
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What’s the process for possessive questions?

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  1. Determine whether possessive is necessary (ex the __Noun2__ of __Noun1__)
  2. If it is necessary, check if its singular or plural
  3. If it’s not, then there’s no apostrophe
25
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What’s a dependent clause?

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A sentence with subject and verb that doesn’t make a standalone thought

26
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What’s an independent clause?

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A sentence with subject and verb that does make a standalone thought

27
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What’s a phrase

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Something with only a subject or verb