Final Assessment Review: Parts of Speech Appositives Voice and Tone Verbs used in Arguments Transitions and Logical Connections A useful way to consider all of these different topics together is that choices in usage affect writers’ logic, arguments, and tone.… Continue Reading
So, in Part One, we covered parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection). In Part Two, we went through parts of a sentence (phrase, clause, subject, predicate, modifier, etc.). Now, we should be ready to… Continue Reading
Let’s get right in here and begin with the terms we want to define: comma , colon : semicolon ; ellipsis … brackets [ ] parentheses ( ) hyphen – en-dash — em-dash — Part One of this topic is… Continue Reading
Sentences can get pretty complicated, but understanding the basic parts that make them up, and how to identify them, will make writing good sentences much easier. All sentences must have a verb, a subject (or one that is implied), and… Continue Reading