EN120 Lesson 3 Quiz

The _______ paragraph gives the reader directions on how he or she can do something.

When one writes a typical paragraph, most of the sentences will be

When an author writes a/an _______ question in a paragraph, he or she intends to answer it in the balance of the paragraph.

Which of the following can enhance your writing?

When you use _______ to define a word, you should use nouns to define nouns, verbs to define verbs, and adjectives to define adjectives.

All of the following are true about dangling modifiers except

_______ sentences have “you” as their implied subject.

A _______ lacks a verb, a subject, or both and isn’t a complete thought.

Definition by negation is a good way to address people’s

Basic ways to define a word or term include all of the following except definition by

An example of definition by _______ is this sentence, “Liberty doesn’t mean having the right to do whatever you please, but carries the obligation to respect the rights of others.”

Which word is a synonym for “timid”?

In a definition by _______, the author of paragraph tells us what is not true before he or she tells us what is true.

These two sentences appear in a paragraph: “Sally loves horses.” “Sally hates cowboy movies.” If you combine these two sentences into one sentence, using the conjunction “yet,” your new sentence will have a

A/an _______ modifies a noun, a verb, or another adverb.

A run-on occurs when two independent clauses are joined by a _______ conjunction.

A/an _______ tells us more about a noun or pronoun and must be placed directly before or directly after the noun or pronoun it refers to.

Beginning writers tend to overuse _______, which quickly become monotonous.

All of the following are guidelines for making your writing more engaging except

When we see two independent clauses joined by nothing at all, we have detected a

An example of a prepositional phrase is

_______ paragraphs give readers step-by-step information.

The two kinds of _______ paragraphs explained in your textbook are the how-to paragraph and the explanation paragraph.

A/an _______ is a word or group of words that renames or describes a noun or pronoun, as in the sentence, “Carlos, a native of Argentina, is the new wrestling champion.”

Transitional expressions used in process paragraphs include all of the following except

The most commonly used sentence is the _______, which is a statement.

We read, “Sally hates spiders, my friend collects spiders.” Which kind of error are we seeing here?

All of these are ways to correct comma splices, run-ons, and fused sentences except

A/an _______ tells us more about a noun or pronoun and must be placed directly before or directly after the noun or pronoun it refers to.

In a definition by _______, the author of paragraph tells us what is not true before he or she tells us what is true.

_______ sentences have “you” as their implied subject.

When you use _______ to define a word, you should use nouns to define nouns, verbs to define verbs, and adjectives to define adjectives.

Which of the following can enhance your writing?

These two sentences appear in a paragraph: “Sally loves horses.” “Sally hates cowboy movies.” If you combine these two sentences into one sentence, using the conjunction “yet,” your new sentence will have a

Which statement is true?

When an author writes a/an _______ question in a paragraph, he or she intends to answer it in the balance of the paragraph.

A prepositional phrase is a group of words containing a preposition and