strengths and weaknesses

Prewriting Structure

Freewriting

Brainstorming

Clustering

Identyifying Common Sentence Problems

Run-Ons

Two sentences joined uncorrectly.

Fused Sentence

Two sentences are incorrectly joined without punctuation.

Comma Splice

Two sentences joined incorrectly with a comma.

Sentence Fragments

Incomplete sentence.

Paragraph Structure

Topic Sentence

Supporting Details

Conclusion

Identifying Verbs

Action Verbs

plays, sails, thinks, loves, drove, met, travels, began, departs, advertise

Linking Verbs

be, become, act, look, remain, seem, look, taste, sound, feel

Helping Verbs

am, are, can, could, did, do, does, had, has, have, is, may, were, will, would