6thGradeStudyContentQ2

Grammar Errors:
Fragment: An incomplete sentence (lacking subject or predicate)
TO FIX: You must complete the sentence. Generally this occurs by adding a predicate.
Example: Before the plane landed. Jane gathered her things from under the seat.
Fix: Before the plane landed, Jane gathered her things from under the seat. (This should be one complex sentence- so adding a comma will work)
Example: Skiing on the mountain. (This sentence does not have a subject. We do not know WHO the sentence is about)
Run-on: when two or more sentences are combined together incorrectly, without proper punctuation in between
Example: I love skiing at Purgatory in the winter the snow is so perfect and the sky is often blue and also I love the restaurants.
FIX: I love skiing at Purgatory in the winter because the snow is so perfect, the sky is often blue, and I love the restaurants.

This is a type of run-on because it includes sentences put together that are incorrectly punctuated. With a comma splice however, it is two complete sentences/independent clauses joined with a comma. Instead they should be joined with other punctuation.

Comma Splice:

Examples: Jason likes salt and vinegar chips, Emily like them too.

To fix, you can change the comma to a period, a semicolon, or add a conjunction in between.

He's going to the store, but he'll come and cook dinner for us.

He's going to the store; he'll come cook dinner for us.

He's doing to the store. He'll come cook dinner for us.

FIXES:

​These occur when a modifier has nothing to modify. It makes it sound like something other than the subject is "doing" the action.

​Dangling Modifier

Multiple Choice

Stacy watched the game, she was very impressed.

• Fragment

• Comma Splice

• Dangling Modifier

• Sentence

Multiple Choice

Driving home, the roads were slippery.

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

• Dangling Modifier

Multiple Choice

Before heading to bed, Jen washed her faced she also combed her hair and brushed her teeth.

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

• Dangling Modifier

Multiple Choice

And loved the winter as well.

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Dangling Modifier

• Comma Splice

​The feeling the story conveys to the reader. Mood is established through descriptive language and imagery.

Mood

The attitude of the author toward his/her subject.

​​Tone

​Contradicting figure of speech

Oxymoron

​A descriptive statement that is non-literal in meaning

Idiom

Words that represent descriptions of sounds. They are real words that sound like real things, real words made to evoke the sound of real things, made-up words that sound like real things, Or letters meant to represent a sound.

Onomatopoeia

The descriptive traits of a character that reach beyond simple physical appearance.

Characterization

Metaphors compare two unlike things in a direct way.
She was an elephant in that baggy clothing.

His anger was a time bomb.

Metaphor

​A figurative comparison using like or as

She was a fast as a cheetah.

​​Simile

Multiple Choice

Hold on a minute while I take care of this mess.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Oxymoron

Multiple Choice

The woods had ears, and they were listening for signs of betrayal.

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

The lightning crashed above her head with a thunderous boom!

• Characterization

• Mood

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Multiple Choice

The darkness fell across the sky. Kinna sat below the tree as the storm set in. She brought her knees toward her chest, and began to cry.

• Mood

• Tone

• Idiom

• Metaphor