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building your writing portfolioa helpful way to organize your writing is in a portfolio photographers designers architects painters and other
explain past participlesthe past participles are often the most difficult of the forms to learn if you have been speaking english most of your life
publishing presenting and evaluatingthe final stage of the writing process is publishing and presenting think of publishing and presenting as the
word-processing errorsif you write on a computer or word processor youll need to look out for leftovers from your cutting and pasting more often than
spelling mistakes vs the spelling checkeryou might think your spelling is perfect because youve run the spelling checker remember though that
explain adverbs showing degree or extentusing adverbs to show how muchadverbs are modifiers most adverbs provide information about verbs they
what is a predicate adjectivea predicate adjective describes the subject of the sentence and follows a linking intransitive verbexamples1 alice
why are teachers so picky about proofreadingafter laboring through all those drafts sweating out those transitions and fighting with those awful
what is a predicate nominativea predicate nominative is a noun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject it is called a predicate
editing and proofreadingproofreading is the stage in the writing process in which you polish your work to make it error-free all forms of writing are
what are objective pronounsnouns can be replaced by pronouns objective pronouns can be used to replace nouns in the direct object the objective
revision techniquesthere are many different revision techniques what technique you use depends on the genre or type of writing its audience and its
what is an indirect objectan indirect object is a noun or pronoun that indicates to whom for whom to what or for what the action of the verb is
draftingdrafting is the second step in the writing process after prewriting it is the way you get your ideas down on paper in roughly the format you
what are direct objects in englishcomplements direct objects and transitive verbsa complement is a word or group of words that completes the thought
how can i brainstorm to get ideas for a paperbrainstorming works for any kind of writing but its especially helpful in starting a research paper for
prewritingintroduction to the writing processthe writing process is a systematic approach to writing that can help you to achieve your writing goals
what are adverbsadverbs like adjectives are modifiersmdashmeaning that they change or modify your mental picture of other words while adjectives
explain the meaning of adjectives what does it mean to modify a word modifiers are words that add information to the sentence base the word
what are pronounspronouns are very closely related to nouns they do all the jobs that nouns do plus some special work that only a pronoun can do we
explain action vs linking verbsall verbs are either action or linking verbs action verbsthe most common type of verb is an action verb an action verb
define helping verbs how do i turn a statement into a questionhelping verbs help the main verb change form and tense you can change a statement into
explain the verb and the predicatea verb shows the action or state of being of the subject of the sentence it also indicates the time or tense of the
how to make pluralsin general nouns are most frequently changed from singular to plural form by adding an s to the noun band-bands team-teams
what is a nouna noun is a word used to name a person place thing or ideanouns are very important words because they give names to everything we wish