A Writing Helper

A Help To New People Writing.

Nouns- A word that describes a person, place or thing.
Examples: girl (person), gym (place), pencil (thing)

Proper nouns- The name of a spacific person, place or thing that begins with a capital letter.
Examples: John F. Kennedy (person), Jupiter (place), Gettysburg Address (thing)

Pronouns- A noun can take tge place of a noun.
Examples: it, he, she, they

Verbs- A word that tells about an action (run, swim, jump)
Present tense verbs tell about actions that happened in the past (ran, swam, jumped)

Adjectives- Describe a noun and also answer the questions: what kind? (small) how many (three) which one's? (Joe's)
Example: The leaves on Joe's three small trees turn red in fall.

Adverbs- A word that describes a verb, often ends in -ly, and answers: How? When? Where? To what extent?
Examples: He drove slowly (how?) she went to the movies (where?) they quickly ran away (to what extent?)

Prepositions- Relate a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence and usually tell here something is, where somthing is going, or when something is happening.
Examples: before (when?), inside (where?)

Apostrophe (')
shows possesion, (Sarah's watch)
contractions (don't haven't can't)
creates plurals of lowercase letters (a's b's c's)

colon )
introduces lists (there are four seasons: winter, fall, spring and fall) also intoduces long quotions (Martin Luther King Jr. said: "I have a dream that one day...") also seperates hours from minutes (4:00) introduces a defenition (C: The third letter in the Latin alphabet.)

comma (,)
seperates clauses in sentences (The sun came out, which was good for the flowers.) seperates three or more words in a series. (Eggs, milk, flour and bread were all o my shopping list.) seperates a state from a city. (Chicago, Illinois) seperates the month and day from the year. (December 24, 1988)  my birthday! No kidding! Also a comma seperates a direct quotation in a sentence (Lauren said, "My favorite day of the week is Friday.")

Period (.)
Ends most sentences (I will go to my math class at twelve o'clock today.) Follows most initals (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur C. Clarke) Follows most abbreviations (6 ft.)

Exclamation Point (!)
Ends exclaimitory sentences (Hurry up!) seperates an interjection from a sentence (Cngradulations! You did it!) ends strong imperative sentences (Watch out for that car!)

Now a message from the author, The reason I have made this is because I think this advice could help me alot improve on my writing and help others like me too.
~Arimay

 

Well, I spent alot of time on this and I wpuld appriciate it if you didn't post any mean comments.

 

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