The Conventions of English Practice Two

Match it! Select the correct answer from the pull down...Good luck!

The easiest way to recognize if something is spelled incorrectly, is if it looks ______________.

Modifiers add _________________ to anything!

A participle phrase includes a verb, but acts as a ______________________.

The three verbal phrases we discussed in class are

True or False? One does NOT need a hypen when writing the written out version of the number 57.

A gerund phrase includes a verb, but acts as a ___________________________.

Varying syntax can make an author’s writing more __________________________.

True or False? It is interesting when an author does not vary syntax.