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Midterm Exam Study Guide By: Emma Estapa

Question #1 Is this sentence active or passive? What is the subject? Verb? Is Lisa sick today?

Answer Type: Passive Subject: Lisa Verb: Is

Question #2 True or False? Your thesis statement should include three main points?

Answer - TRUE

Question #3 What part of an essay is the thesis statement in?

Answer - Introduction

Question #4 What part of an essay is the broadening sentences in?

Answer Conclusion

Question #5 What trait is auditory?

Answer Sentence Fluency

Question #6 What trait is spatial, time, content, and perspective orders?

Answer Organization

Question #7 What trait is sequencing?

Answer Organization

Question #8 What trait does transitions fall under?

Answer Organization

Question #9 Worrying about this when editing is what trait?

Answer Conventions

Question #10 What trait can you not use slang?

Answer Word Choice

Question #11 What organizational method is this sentence? The Saint Scholastica Academy campus boast a variety of school building from LaSalle to Jahncke, and the Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel.

Answer By Space

Question #12 What organizational method is this sentence? The sharks mostly likely to attack swimmers are hammerheads, great whites, and tiger sharks.

Answer By content

Question #13 What organizational method is this sentence? Despite what cigarette companies want people to believe, smoking causes death to the smoker, illness to the nonsmokers around the smoker, and detrimental effects to the environment.

Answer By Perspective

Question #14 What 6+1 Writing Trait goes with Descriptive Writing?

Answer Word Choice

Question #15 Is this sentence Active or Passive? The walls of the house were almost covered with ivy.

Answer Passive

Question #16 Is this sentence Active or Passive? My teacher often wears a raincoat when it rains.

Answer Active

Question #17 Can you name the eight to be linking verbs?

Answer 1) Am2) Is 3) Are4) Was 5) Were6) Be 7) Been8) Being

Question #18 What is the MLA heading?

Answer First Last Name Teachers Name Class : Block E-H Date (ex. 2 February 2011)

Question #19 What part of the Writing Process involves brainstorming?

Answer Pre-writing

Question #20 What links each main body paragraph to the next one?

Answer Transition Sentences

Question #21 The projecting sentence appears in which paragraph?

Answer Conclusion

Question #22 What is the first sentence in the introduction?

Answer Attention Getter

Question #23 Which is NOT an example of formal writing? a)Term paper b)In-class essay c)A personal journal d)A resume

Answer C) a personal journal