GRAMMAR GUIDE ENGLISH

MS. G. Roach
THIS IS TO PREPARE YOU FOR
ALL MATERIAL MATTERS!
THAT MEANS YOU MUST KNOW THIS STUFF!

ALSO- REVIEW ALL POWER POINT

NOTES!

WRITING: SHORT ANSWER

1) What is an essay?
a. To Inform?
b. To Persuade?
c. Creative Writing?
2) Technical Writing? What are four types of technical writing?
3) What are three basic forms of writing?
4) What is the basic function of an outline?
5) What is the basic format of a business letter?
6) What is the format of a resume?
7) What is the relationship between rhetorical triangle and communication?

BASIC PUNCTUATION RULES: WHEN DO YOU USE (HOW TO TAKE NOTES PORTION)
1) Apostrophes
2) Brackets
3) Comma
4) Capitalization
5) Colons
6) Semicolons
7) Dashes
8) Periods
9) Ellipses
10) Exclamations
11) Hyphens
12) Indenting
13) Italics
14) Parentheses
15) Question Marks
16) Slashes
17) Underlines
18) Quotation Marks

GRAMMAR : (LOOK UP ANSWERS USING THE INTERNETCITE SOURCES)

1) Where did the English Language originate from?
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2) What is the oldest Poem written surviving today? (in English)

3) How many official parts of speech are there?
4) How many parts of a sentence are there?
5) What are Four kinds of sentence?
6) What do the Four kinds of sentence do? (Function)
7) What is a Noun?
8) What are kinds of Nouns? (list)
9) What are eight uses of Nouns?
10) What is a pronoun?
11) What are different kinds of pronoun? (List 6 kinds)
12) What is a verb?
13) What is a main verb?
14) What is a helping (linking) verb?
15) Verb tenses
16) What are the 3 principal parts of verbs?
17) What is an adjective?
18) What are 3 kinds of adjective?
19) Where an adjective goes in a sentence?
20) What is an adverb?
21) When do adverbs describe verbs?
22) When do adverbs describe adjectives?
23) When adverbs describe other adverbs?
24) Comparing Adverbs
25) What is a preposition?
26) Four things that prepositions tell:
27) What is a compound preposition?
28) What is a prepositional phrase?
29) What is a conjunction?
30) Different kinds of Conjunction:
31) What is an Interjection?
32) What is a Double Negative?
33) Independent Clauses
34) Dependent Clauses

LITERATURE :
1) What is a novel?
2) What is an autobiography?
3) What is a biography?
4) What is a memoir?
5) What is non-fiction?
6) What is a short story?
7) What is a fictional story?
TERMS TO KNOW AND IDENTIFY:

1) Simile
2) Hyperbole
3) Personification
4) Metaphor
5) Alliteration
6) Rhyme scheme
7) Repetition
8) Literal Language
9) Irony
10) Foreshadowing
11) Symbolism
12) Exposition
13) Rising Action
14) Climax
15) Denouement
16) Post Modernism
17) Realism
18) Modernism
19) Imagery
20) Diction
21) Figurative Language
22) Idiom
CONTEXT CLUES:
Refers to the way in which a word that has multiple meanings is used a certain way. It is
the way you determine what a word means based on how it is used in a sentence.

WRITING AND COMPOSITION:

Paragraph Structure: A Good paragraph has ___________________ idea.
There are four ways to organize details in a paragraph: (Define Each- write an four to five
sentence example)
1.__________________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________________
4. __________________________________________________________
As a writer moves from one IDEA to another they must use _____________________
______________________. Because they allow the reader to
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

TIME ORDER

EXAMPLES OF TRANSITIONAL WORDS

CAUSE & EFFECT
COMPARE

CONTRAST

 What is an expository Paragraph?

Write an example (Original of your OWN):
What are the basic elements:
I. TOPIC SENTENCE: (DEFINE): (WRITE EXAMPLE)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
II. SUPPORTING SENTENCE: (DEFINE): (WRITE 3 EXAMPLES)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
III. CONCLUDING SENTENCE: (DEFINE): (WRITE EXAMPLE)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________
(RECOPY PARAGRAPH ONTO NOTEBOOK PAPER!

NARRATIVE PARRAGRAPHS

What is the function of a narrative paragraph?

What does it contain?
What can it do without?
What is a narrators function? What point of view is he story written in for a
narrator to be involved in the story?
WRITE AN EXAMPLE OF A NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH: (FOUR TO FIVE SENTENCES)
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 PERSON NARRATING: _____________________________________

MAIN EVENT :
_______________________________________________________
OTHER CHARACTERS:
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
I. TOPIC SENTENCE: (DEFINE): (WRITE EXAMPLE)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
II. SUPPORTING SENTENCE: (DEFINE): (WRITE 3 EXAMPLES)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
III. CONCLUDING SENTENCE: (DEFINE): (WRITE EXAMPLE)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
(RECOPY PARAGRAPH ONTO NOTEBOOK PAPER!)

DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH
What is the main purpose of a descriptive paragraph?
What is the importance of sensory details?
List them:
__________________________________________________________
What are Action Verbs?
What are Appropriate Modifiers?
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

 What is the difference between Active verses Passive Voice?

__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Write YOUR OWN ORIGINAL Descriptive Paragraph of an event that happened to you:

I. DECRIPTIVE EVENT:
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
II. SUPPORTING SENTENCES: (WRITE 3 EXAMPLES)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
III. CONCLUDING SENTENCE: HOW DID IT END
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
(RECOPY PARAGRAPH ONTO NOTEBOOK PAPER!)

PERSUASIVE PARAGRAPH
What is the main difference between the persuasive and the expository
paragraph?
What is the difference between formal and informal English?
What is Colloquial Language?
What does the term Vernacular Speech mean?
(Pages 3-6) Above Due at end of Week 6 Homework
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RESEARCH PAPER: ONE TO TWO SENTENCE ANSWERS!

What is the main purpose of a Research Paper?
What is the purpose of a Research question?
What is a Thesis?
What is the first question that you should ask yourself when beginning a
research paper?
What are two things you should AVOID doing:
1._____________________________________________________________________
2._____________________________________________________________________
List five possible resources that you could use for information to use in a research
paper:
1.______________________, 2.______________________, 3._____________________
4.______________________, 5.______________________
SECONDARY EVIDENCE:
WHAT DO INFORMATION DO PRIMARY SOURCES CONTAIN? (GIVE AN FOUR

EXAMPLES

& DEFINE EACH)

1._____________________________________________________________________
2.______________________________________________________________________
3.______________________________________________________________________
4.______________________________________________________________________
WHAT ARE SECONDARY SOURCES?
LIST 6 EXAMPLES AND DEFINE:

TAKING NOTES & USING NOTES

TWO WAYS TO USE NOTES:
WAY # 1 : CREATE A NOTE CARD:
TOPIC HEADING:
SOURCE TITLE, PAGE #
RELEVANT DETAILS:

QUOTE:

WAY # 2 : CREATE AN OUTLINE:

TITLE MAIN IDEA
THESIS STATEMENT MAIN IDEA EXPANDED
I . INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH
1. SUPPORTING IDEA
2. SUPPORTING IDEA
II. SUBORDINATE PARAGRAPH
1. SUPPORTING IDEA

2. SUPPORTING IDEA
CONCLUSION IS IMPORTANT! RESTATE WITHOUT SAYING THE SAME THING IN THE
EXACT SAME LANGUAGE!
What is a bibliography?
What is contained in a Works Cited List?
________________________________________________________________________
author

title

Date of publication

Page #s

Place of publication

DEFINE THE FOLLOWING PARTS OF A BOOK:

1) Table of Contents: _________________________________________________
2) Preface: _________________________________________________________
3) Index: __________________________________________________________
4) Glossary: ________________________________________________________
5) Appendix: _______________________________________________________
Vocabulary:
Record unfamiliar words in a journal take notes!
Look them up! Say them out Loud until you are comfortable with them!
Look at the way they are used in the sentence.
VOCABULARY
: CONTEXT CLUES
What are context clues?
What several types of context clues?
: ROOTS & AFFIXES
What is Etymology?
What is the Root of the word and why is it important?
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 What is the Affix? What is the Prefix?

: IDIOMS & ANALOGIES

Define Idiom?

Define Analogy?

: DETERMINING WORD MEANINGS

What are three ways you can determine a words meaning:
1.____________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________________
Research Paper : Can use notes!
Part I: Short Answer: 2-3 sentences per answer. On notebook paper- complete sentences
only will be accepted!

1) What is a Research Paper?

2) What goes on the title page?

3) What is the purpose of an Outline?

4) What are the parts of an Outline?

5) Define Thesis Statement.

6) Define Bibliography. What is another phrase used to define it?

7) What are the different parts of Paragraph?

8) What are the 8 questions you must answer in a Research Paper?

9) What are 2 things you should do to begin Researching?

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10) What is the difference between a fiction and non-fiction source?

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