ACCUPLACER Writing Test Study Guide questions with precise detailed answers

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What are a VERBS 3 main functions? - ✔✔movement, action, and state of being
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What is a linking verb? - ✔✔A linking verb, is a verb that links a word that give additional
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What is the linking verb? : ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||




Connie seems sad. - ✔✔SEEMS is the linking verb ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||




What is the linking verb? : ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||




The meat smelled funny. - ✔✔SMELLED is the linking verb
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What punctuation mark is used to show possession? - ✔✔Apostrophes
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If a plural noun ends in 's', where will the apostrophe be? - ✔✔An apostrophe will come at
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the end of the 's'.
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Ex: The students' hat
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If the plural noun does NOT end in 's' where will the apostrophe be? - ✔✔The apostrophe
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will come after the word followed by an 's'.
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Ex: The men's meeting
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When the noun is singular, where will the apostrophe be? - ✔✔The apostrophe will come
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after the word followed by an 's'. ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||

, Ex: Student's hat
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Which one is correct? : ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||




Texas's or Texas' - ✔✔EITHER!! It is not required to put the extra 's' but it tends to be
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customary.



What are COMMAS 3 primary functions? - ✔✔Separate clauses; join independent clauses;
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and are used to avoid confusion.
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What's a clause? - ✔✔A piece of the sentence.||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||




What's a dependent clause? - ✔✔A clause that cannot stand alone in a sentence.
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What's an independent clause? - ✔✔A clause that can stand alone, as a sentence.
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Name a use for a dependent clause. - ✔✔Dependent clauses are used as an intro to a
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What's the dependent clause? : ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||




Before the game, Jimmy ate a healthy breakfast. - ✔✔BEFORE THE GAME is the
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dependent clause. ||//\\||




What are conjunctions? - ✔✔They join words or groups of words; usually joined with a
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comma.

Ex: and, but, or, for, nor, so, yet.
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Where do the commas go? : ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\|| ||//\\||