GED WRITING QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED TO PASS

Narrative writing - The kind of writing or speaking that relates a series of events as a story. Personal Narrative - an autobiographical writing focusing on a significant experience in the writer's life Chronological order - The order in which events happen in time Topic sentence - A sentence intended to express the main idea in a paragraph or passage. Supporting details - Facts and ideas that prove or explain the main idea of a paragraph. Sentence - a group of words that expresses a complete thought Subject - a person or thing that a sentence is about Predicate - tells what the subject is or does, or what is being done by the subject Sentence fragment - a group of words that does not express a complete thought First person point of view - a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself Third person point of view - Someone on the outside is looking in and telling the story as he/she see it unfold. Descriptive writing - writing that paints a picture of a person, place, thing, or idea Sensory details - details in writing or speech that appeal to one or more of the physical senses Literal language - A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote. Figurative language - Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things, [examples are metaphor, simile, and personification. Adjective - describes a noun or pronoun Adverb - a word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Noun - a word that can be used to refer to a person or place or thing Pronoun - takes the place of a noun Gerund - a verb ending in -ing and functions as a noun; example: ESTIMATING is an important mathematics skill. Conjunction - a word that joins two phrases or sentences Interjection - a word that expresses emotion Contraction - a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds Coordinating conjunction - connects word or word groups that have equal importance in a sentence (and, but , or, for, so, yet, nor) Independent clause - expresses a complete thought and can stand by itself as a sentence Dependent clause - does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence, even though it has a subject and a verb, Expository writing - writing that explains, informs, or presents information. Does not try and persuade or tell a story Synonym - a word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other Antonym - a word that means the opposite of another word