Stage 3: Grammar menu
Grammer Menu
These are the grammar topics that were tested in the Stage 3 PreQuiz.
- Apostrophes and possesion: Keeping track of who owns what in your sentence.
Disruptive and dangling modifiers
- Disruptive modifiers interrupt the sentence when information is inserted between the verb and object. If a sentence has a dangling modifier, it is unclear what is being modified.
- Acronyms are combinations of capital letters from the first letter of each word of a phrase. NZ is an acronym for New Zealand. They have some interesting quirks.
- Using commas before joining words, and to identify non-essential information.
Who or which or that—relative clauses
- Adding specifics about information in clauses with who or which or that.