Deck 4: Focus on Grammar: The Mechanics of Language

Question 1

___ refers to the arrangement of words and phrases according to tense, gender, number, case and other characteristics in order to produce clear and concise sentences.

Answer 1

Grammar

Question 2

The key distinction between a fragment and a sentence is that a sentence represents a ___ thought

Answer 2

complete

Question 3

Grammar plays a crucial role in our discourse because ___ alone are not the well-formed building blocks of meaning we sometimes think them to be.

Answer 3

words

Question 4

Even minor grammar or punctuation errors can change the entire ___ of a sentence.

Question 5

You must first know the ___ of grammar before you can bend them with purpose and intelligence.

Question 6

While the distinctions among grammar, style and usage sometimes blur, one characteristic of grammar distinguishes it from style and usage. Grammar is about what happens ___ the sentence.

Question 7

The ___ is our fundamental unit of meaning.

Question 8

___ refers to a broader category of what is accepted in speech or writing at a given time.

Question 9

___ refers to the body of guidelines that ensures consistency in presenting information to the public.

Question 10

Which part of speech may be the single most important tool writers and editors have to communicate with power and authority. ___

Question 11

You must first know the ___ of grammar before you can bend them with purpose and intelligence.

Question 12

The ___ is our fundamental unit of meaning.

Question 13

___ refers to a broader category of what is accepted in speech or writing at a given time.

Question 14

___ refers to the body of guidelines that ensures consistency in presenting information to the public.

Question 15

___ refers to the arrangement of words and phrases according to tense, gender, number, case and other characteristics in order to produce clear and concise sentences.

Question 16

Which part of speech may be the single most important tool writers and editors have to communicate with power and authority. ___

Question 17

The key distinction between a fragment and a sentence is that a sentence represents a ___ thought

Question 18

Grammar plays a crucial role in our discourse because ___ alone are not the well-formed building blocks of meaning we sometimes think them to be.

Question 19

Even minor grammar or punctuation errors can change the entire ___ of a sentence.

Question 20

While the distinctions among grammar, style and usage sometimes blur, one characteristic of grammar distinguishes it from style and usage. Grammar is about what happens ___ the sentence.