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Harry Potter and grammar

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What is Harry Potter's owl's name?

Hedwig

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Why do the Dursleys laugh when they leave Harry at the train station?

They think platform 9 3/4 does not exist.

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Who dropped Harry off as a baby and picked him up at the age of 11?

Hagrid

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Why does Petunia Vernon hate Harry Potter?

She was jealous of her sister, Harry's mother.

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Who is Dumbledore?

Headmaster/Principal of Hogwarts

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What is Harry afraid of as he starts preparing for Hogwarts?

That he doesn't know any magic

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Why are houses in Hogwarts important?

They represent who you are, and the people in them become your "second family".

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A compound sentence must be connected by a

conjunction.

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A pronoun replaces a

noun.

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Coordinate adjectives can be ________, and they still make sense.

reversed

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Dangling modifiers are words or phrases that make sentences

confusing.

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Some commonly misspelled words are

there, they're, and their OR two, too, to

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A complex sentence has an independent clause and a

dependent clause.

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The topic sentence of a paragraph is

usually the first sentence.

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The thesis of an essay is a sentence that tells the reader

what the essay will be about.

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What do Harry Potter and Ron Weasley have in common?

They both have always received hand-me-downs.

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