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

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Fish: 400• Question:• When the relationship between words is

illogical, it is this.• Answer• What is the only grammatical mistake?

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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.

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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?

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

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Punctuation: 200• Question:• The purpose of this mark is to join an

independent clause with a dependent clause.• Answer• What is a comma?

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Punctuation: 400• Question:• The correct use of an apostrophe for the

plural/possessive form of the name “Williams.”

• Answer• What is “Williamses’?”

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Punctuation: 600• Question:• This grammatical error occurs when a comma

is used to join two independent clauses.• Answer• What is a comma splice?

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Punctuation: 800• Question:• This grammatical mark is used to join two

independent clauses into a more complex sentence.

• Answer• What is a semicolon?

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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.Back

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

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Verbs: 400• Question:• When a verb cannot correctly apply to a noun,

it is called this.• Answer• What is “subject-verb disagreement.”

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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.Back

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?”

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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,

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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?”Back

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.

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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?”

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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.Back

Sentences: 1000• Question:• This grammatical marking precedes lists or

clauses that can stand on their own.• Answer• What is a colon.

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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?

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

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MLA: 600• Question:• This document not only contains citations, but

a description of the sources used.• Answer• What is an Annotated Bibliography?

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

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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?

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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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