What should be on your Cheat Sheet.

Pre-writing techniques  Brainstorm  Cluster  Outline  Freewrite

types of essays/paragraphs Know the types and how to do them. You will have 1 paragraph to write  Illustration  Narration  Description  Process Analysis (giving directions)

Vocabulary (Commonly confused words)  What are the MOST COMMON words on the list?  There, Their, They’re  Too, two, To

Identify Sentence vs Fragment  To be a sentence it needs:  Subject (who/what is doing the action)  Verb (the action)  A complete thought.  Watch out for those prepositional phrases!  Prepositional phrases can NEVER have the subject or the verb!

Run-ons (Pg 145)  Run-ons are independent clauses that have been combined incorrectly.  There are several types:  The AND run-on (1 and per sentence!)  The Fused run-on  The comma splice We will be going into detail on each one

The and run on (pg 146)  The AND run-on: two or more relatively long independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction without any punctuation.  I met Charlyce in a yoga class a the YWCA and we liked each other immediately and we soon became friends and we often hang out at each other’s houses.

The Fused run on (pg 146)  The Fused run-on : two or more independent clauses run together without any punctuation.  I met Charlyce in a yoga class at the YWCA we soon became friends.

Parts of Speech – particularly the Preposition (pg 41!!!!!)  Pg 41  Video - cks%21#Prepositions cks%21#Prepositions  Over the rainbow.

The person/thing doing the action

Commands and Requests  In 'commands' and 'requests' the subject is usually not stated. The predicate is the entire sentence. The pronoun 'you' is understood to be the subject. Examples are: Listen! Please see me. Be careful. [You]

Questions  Questions frequently begin with a verb or a helping verb or the words 'who, whom, what, when, where, why,or how.' examples are:  Did he reply? Have you read Nikki Giovanni's poetry? What do they sing?  In these cases, the subject generally follows the verb or helping verb.  To find the subject of a question, rearrange the words to form a statement.  Example: He did reply. You have read Nikki Giovanni's poetry. They do sing. Verb

Inverted Sentence Order  A sentence written in 'inverted order', in which the predicate comes before the subject, serves to add emphasis to the subject.  Examples are: Under the moonlight sat the old cypress tree. Above the forest circled three hawks. Verb

Here and There  The word 'there' or 'here is' is never the subject.  When the word 'there' or 'here' begins a sentence and is followed by a form of the verb 'to be', the subject follows the verb. are  Example: Here 'are' (P) the 'quilts' (S)from my grandma. are  Rephrase it! The quilts are from my grandmother.

Prepositional Phrases  Remember, a word in a prepositional phrase is never the subject.  Prepositions are words that tell where or what kind. Word list on pg 41: AboutBehindExceptOntoToward AboveBelowForOutUnder AcrossBeneathFromOutsideUnderneath AfterBesideInOverUnlike