| A | B |
|---|
| unifying | main, most important |
| precede | comes before |
| redundant | repetitious, repeats information |
| paraphrasing | put into your own words |
| fragment | a piece of a sentence |
| run-on | two or more complete thoughts that run together |
| misused | used incorrectly |
| clincher | closing sentence |
| topic sentence | usually at the beginning of the paragraph and will state the main idea |
| supporting details | sentences that follow the topic sentence and give details that support the topic |
| grabber | what is used to get the readers attention |
| misplaced | put in the wrong place |
| irrelevant | not necessary |
| plagiarism | copying someone else's ideas as your own |
| transition | moving from one part of a sentence to another |
| italics | used in the place of underlining (those squiggley words) |
| colon | : used before a list |
| semicolon | ; used to separate two independent clauses |
| apostrophe | ' used to show possession or a contraction |
| parenthesis | ( ) used to set off words that define or explain a word |
| antecedent | the word that the pronoun refers to in a sentence |
| revise/revision | to rearrange sentences, to remove sentences, etc |
| tense | time |
| simple predicate | verb |
| simple subject | noun or pronoun that is found in the complete subject |
