Foundations for Composition Prerequisites

There a number of things of which a student should have a basic mastery. Prospective students for Foundations for Composition should understand:
 

Parts of speech:

• Name and define all
• How to identify what part of speech a word is in a sentence
   

Phrases: different types and how to use
 

Clauses:

• Main/independent and dependent/subordinate
• How to legally connect clauses in a sentence
   

Sentences:

• The four types: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex
• The four types: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory
• How to identify sentence errors: comma splices and run-on sentences
   

Punctuation:

• Correct uses for all punctuation marks, especially comma, period, question mark, exclamation point, semicolon, apostrophe, hyphen, em dash