English midterm

Question 1

What is a thesis statement?

Where is it?

Answer 1

1. main idea of the paper in one sentence

2. end of the first paragraph.

Question 2

What is in the top left hand corner of a paper?

Answer 2

My name
Professors name
Class
Due date

Question 3

What is a comma splice?

Answer 3

Two complete sentences with a comma in-between.

Question 4

What are 3 ways to fix a comma splice?

Answer 4

1. Coordinating conjunction (FANBOY) and a comma in-between.
2. Semi colon after first sentence.
3. make it two sentences.

Question 5

What is a fragment?

Answer 5

An incomplete sentence that is missing a subject, idea or verb

Question 6

What is a dangling modifier?

Answer 6

A verb, usually ending in ING that seems like it’s going to be attached to a subject, but it’s not.

Question 7

What do you do when you mention an article in a paper?

Answer 7

Put it in quotations

Question 8

What do you do when you mention a magazine, newspaper, or book in a paper?

Answer 8

Italicize it.

Question 9

When do you put an apostrophe with a word ending in ‘S”?

Answer 9

When it’s possessive. NOT PLURAL.

Question 10

Steps to tell if s is after or before the s (2 things)

Answer 10

1. put it in an “of” phrase (the ball of john)

2. if the last letter is an s, it goes after.

Question 11

Advice vs. Advise

Answer 11

Advice is a noun.

Advise is a verb.

Question 12

Affect vs. Effect

Answer 12

Affect: verb, “to influence”
Effect: noun, result of.

Question 13

All ready vs Already

Answer 13

All ready: prepared

Already: before hand, or by this time.

Question 14

All together vs. Altogether

Answer 14

All together: in a group

Altogether: entirely

Question 15

What question do you ask yourself when deciding to use who or whom?

Answer 15

Is the word after a verb?
yes=who
no=whom