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1. One






2. Can stand alone






3. Answers To whom? To what? For what?






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






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






6. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






7. Separate 2 or more adjectives that equally modify or describe a noun






8. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






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






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






11. Animal or things & should be use to introduce essential clauses






12. Occurs when a person is being addressed or spoken to directly - rather than about






13. Indicate whether a noun is plural or singular & whether it is located nearby or farther away






14. Expresses an action directed toward a person or thing






15. Musical terms ending in o






16. What is used to show the omission of words understood?






17. Add ' (Horowitzes')






18. Words that describe or limit verbs - adjectives or other adverbs; answer When? How? Where? To what extent?






19. 1 independent clause; no punctuation in sentence - can be joind by and






20. Formed by adding d or ed to present tense verb preceded by helping verb (has applied - have built)






21. Word combinations that are unique to that language






22. Present tense of a verb preceded by the word to (to be - to sit)






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






24. Prepositional phrases containing verb forms are...






25. Adds additional info to sentence






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






27. Expected to occur later






28. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






29. Word or groups of words that explain or rename previously mentioned nouns or pronouns






30. Unrelated figures appearing side by side should be...






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






32. Formed by adding st or est in short adj. or adding most/least






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






34. Action verb that does not require an object to complete it's action






35. Primarily as subjects of verbs






36. Verb or verb phrase the subject is doing






37. A -an & the






38. Surviving from a previous period






39. Describes actions that will take place before other future actions






40. Opposing or contrasting expressions (not - never - but - yet)






41. Describes past actions that took place before other past action






42. Commas are used to...






43. Formed by adding r or er in one-syllable & some two syllable words or adding more/less






44. When one noun possess another






45. 2 independent clauses without proper punctuation - repair w/ comma & conjuction - semicolon - or seperating them






46. Used to express a fact






47. Pronouns that end in self






48. Contains helpful info: punctuation - hyphenation - capitalization - number style - abbreviations - & commonly confused words






49. 2 sentences incorrectly joind by a comma






50. Who may function as the subject of a verb or as the subject complement of noun following linkg verb