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What is pitchforking?

• A way to follow a structure where students make their own noticing about a sentence.

• Taking one thing and branching it out to describe several actions.

• A great way to help students recognize and write in varied sentence structures.

• Examples of good writing for writers.

What is it called if there are two independent clauses with no conjunction?

• Complete sentence

• Fragment

• Run-on sentence

• Complex sentence

What is it called when there is a dependent clause alone in a sentence?

• Complete sentence

• Run-on sentence

• Fragment

• Complex sentence

Conjunctions join independent clauses in this type of sentence.

• Complete sentence

• Complex sentence

• Compound sentence

• Simple sentence

This type of sentence has an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses.

• Complete sentence

• Compound sentence

• Complex sentence

• Simple sentence

This conjunction is used to switch ideas or to show the down side.

• and

• or

• but

• so

This conjunction is used to indicate why, to signal a cause.

• and

• or

• but

• so

This conjunction is used to join or add on

• and

• or

• but

• so

This conjunction is used to show choice or something else.

• and

• or

• but

• so

If a student scores a 1 on the written composition, what do they need to make on revising and editing in order to score in the masters level?

• 100%

• 92%

• 80%

• 75%