Conventions and Usage Practice

What are language conventions?

• Help make writing sound better

• Help make writing clear and understandable

• Help us write shorter sentences

Grammar is made up of 4 parts

• True

• False

There are ____ types of phrases

• 1

• 8

• 4

Every clause has to have at least a subject and a verb.

• True

• False

Capitalization helps us:

• Know when a sentence starts.

• If a noun is proper

• All of the above

A proper noun is used when

• you write a person's name

• you write an adjective

• you write an action

Punctuation helps us:

• It helps the writer identify places.

• identify when to end or pause when reading.

• Helps the reader know an action happened.

Spelling shows us a word is

Capitalization is used when writing

How many sentences those a paragraph have?

• 3

• 5

• 8