TEAS English Grammar/Mechanics

This type of sentence summarizes the main idea of and comes first in the paragraph.

Which signal words signal cause and effect?

This type of sentence/information supports the main idea.

What is the subject? After school, the student drove back home in the dark.

Homophones (homo=same; phone=sound) are words that

How do we evaluate fact from fiction, fact from opinion?

A colon : is used to introduce a quote, list, ratio or time. T or F?

A homograph (homoe=same;graph=letter) is a word that is

This rule applies in most cases for spelling words which have 'i' and 'e' in the middle.

An apostrophe is used to mark letters left out, or possession. T or F?

Please punctuate: She brought the following oranges, pretzels, cookies, and raisins.

Which of the following words is misspelled?

"I think" "you" "me" "my" should be avoided in formal writing because

'Stuff' should be avoided in formal writing because

What punctuation is missing: She took her sisters umbrella.

Which would you want if you were stuck somewhere for many hours without food?

What is wrong with this? He ran and went to school and the bus was late therefore so was he.

The complete subject includes

The simple subject in a sentence is

Transition words are useful for