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1. Connecting words






2. Is plural






3. Describes actions that began in the past & have continued to the present






4. Express current action






5. Falls at the end of the sentence






6. Express action - occurrence - or a state of being






7. History of word






8. Intro prepositional phrases totaling 4 or more words...






9. Negative adverb is used in same sentence with negative verb.(Calling her won't do no good)






10. A -an & the






11. Bushes - Rodriguezes -Williames






12. 2 nouns express combined ownership

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13. Plural ending in s - x - z - ch - sh






14. When addresses are written in sentence form....






15. Occur when 2 or more adjectives appearing before a noun independently modify the noun






16. Simple subject and all modifiers (words that describe or limit)






17. Words used in place of nouns






18. Action has been completed






19. Join grammatically equal sentence elements. used in pairs ( both...and - either....or)






20. Verb form ending in ing that is used as a noun. often desctibes activities.






21. Make principle noun plural (fathers-in-law) (runners-up)






22. Verb expresses an action directed by the subject toward the object of verb






23. Joins nouns and pronouns to other words






24. Used to join unequal sentence elements; independent & dependent clauses






25. When they come before a compound subject and joined by and - the compound subject is singular






26. 's or ' on the last word (father-in-law's)






27. If it is five yrs or older - consider repacing it






28. Only when a terminal clause adds unnecessaty info to the sentence....






29. Add 's (Horowitz's)






30. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






31. Nonrestrictive clauses should be set off by...






32. Describes ongoing actions that occured in the past - usually as another action was taking place






33. Verb should agree with the closer subject






34. yrs. - CPAs - Nos.






35. A comma






36. Used to express a fact






37. Verb comes before the subject






38. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






39. Join equal parts of sentences






40. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






41. Noun or pronoun prepositional phrase is talking about






42. Used to show actions that are already completed or perfected






43. Proper nouns become plural by adding s






44. May be used to create transitions between thoughts (after all - by the way - for example)






45. When one noun possess another






46. Can be singular or plural depending on the nouns they refer to






47. Generally contains over 170 -000 entries






48. Plural






49. Noun or pronoun the sentence is about






50. Verb and its modifiers - objucts & complements