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Your Topic Stanley FishPunctuationVerb Agreement Broken Sentences MLA Formatting Bonus Question: 5000 pts

Fish: 200 Question: The three parts of a sentence. Answer What are subjec t, object, and verb.

Fish: 400 Question: When the relationship between words is illogical, it is this. Answer What is the only grammatical mistake?

Fish: 600 Question: Provide an example sentence of Fish’s formula in a sentence of four words or less – (Doesn’t need to be a question) Answer To be determined by the class.

Fish: 800 Question: According to Stanley Fish, these words in a sentence provide additional detail. Answer What are all the other words in a sentence?

Fish: 1000 Question: Stanley Fish calls a sentence this. Answer What is “a structure of logical relationships?”

Punctuation: 200 Question: The purpose of this mark is to join an independent clause with a dependent clause. Answer What is a comma?

Punctuation: 400 Question: The correct use of an apostrophe for the plural/possessive form of the name “Williams.” Answer What is “Williamses’?”

Punctuation: 600 Question: This grammatical error occurs when a comma is used to join two independent clauses. Answer What is a comma splice?

Punctuation: 800 Question: This grammatical mark is used to join two independent clauses into a more complex sentence. Answer What is a semicolon?

Punctuation: 1000 Question: This grammatical mark can indicate a long pause in poetry, or it allows you to inject a thought into the middle of a sentence. Answer What is a dash? – When you’re writing a sentence—which you will do a lot in this course—a dash lets you mix up your flow.

Verbs: 200 Question: A verb is this. Answer What is an action word?

Verbs: 400 Question: When a verb cannot correctly apply to a noun, it is called this. Answer What is “subject-verb disagreement.”

Verbs: 600 Question: Fix the error. (Doesn’t need to be a question) – The firefighters have heard the alarm, woke up, and went to put out the fire. Answer The firefighters have heard the alarm, woken up, and went to put out the fire. The firefighters heard the alarm, woke up, and went to put out the fire.

Verbs: 800 Question: This sentence in the past tense needs what word removed to be correct? – If I would have known you were coming, I would have baked a cake. Answer What is “would?”

Verbs: 1000 Question: These are at least five or more tenses in the English language. Answer What is… – Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect Simple, Present Perfect Continuous – Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect Simple, Past Perfect Continuous – Future Simple, Future Continuous, Future Perfect Simple, Future Perfect Continuous

Sentences: 200 Question: To fix the following run-on sentence, you must do this. – I love taking Composition I would come to this class every day if that were possible. Answer What is “split into two sentences or add a semicolon?”

Sentences: 400 Question: True or False, the following sentence is correct. Rachel is very smart, she began reading when she was three years old. Answer False.

Sentences: 600 Question: This common error occurs in the following sentence. – All the people at the meeting is responsible for a presentation. Answer What is “subject-verb disagreement?”

Sentences: 800 Question: This common error occurs in the following sentence. – Everybody must bring their own lunch. Answer What is “Pronoun usage?” – As the noun is singular, the pronoun used should be singular. While attempts at gender neutral pronouns such as “they” should be applauded, they are technically incorrect. – Everybody must bring his or her own lunch.

Sentences: 1000 Question: This grammatical marking precedes lists or clauses that can stand on their own. Answer What is a colon.

MLA: 200 Question: When you cite a source in an academic paper, you put this next to it. Answer What is an in-text citation?

MLA: 400 Question: The order of sources on a Works Cited Page. Answer What is Alphabetical Order?

MLA: 600 Question: This document not only contains citations, but a description of the sources used. Answer What is an Annotated Bibliography?

MLA: 800 Question: MLA Stands for this. Answer What is the Modern Language Association?

MLA: 1000 Question: When you cite sources that you don’t quote in your paper, you may list them on this page. Answer What is a “Works Consulted” page?

Bonus Question: 5000 pts. Question: You can ask a question here, Since this is the Bonus Q. it should be the hardest question. Answer … (The answer here!)

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