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






2. Describes ongoin actions that occured in the past - usually as another action is taking place






3. Pocket & desk dictionaries; shorter and condensed






4. Joins nouns and pronouns to other words






5. Adds additional info to sentence






6. Prepositional phrases






7. To place (lay - laid - laid - laying)






8. Collection of synonyms and antonyms






9. MDs - PhDs






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






11. To lift up; to elevate (raise - raised)






12. When one noun possess another






13. Whom may function as the object of a verb or object of a preposition






14. Verb phrases that precede main clauses should be followed by...






15. Words used in place of nouns






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






17. 1 independent and 1 dependent clause; dependent usually comes first w/ a comma






18. Person - place - thing - qualities - feelings - concepts - activities & measures






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






20. Plural ending in y w/ vowel before it






21. Faculty - committee - team - group - jury-may be singular or plural depending on how they are used






22. Indicates present - the past & future






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






24. Verb and its modifiers - objucts & complements






25. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






26. Plural ending in o w/ vowel before it






27. 1 independent clause; no punctuation in sentence - can be joind by and






28. Surviving from a previous period






29. A -an & the






30. Two or more






31. Prepositional phrases containing verb forms are...






32. Verb comes before the subject






33. 2 sentences incorrectly joind by a comma






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






35. Musical terms ending in o






36. The most used & misused punctuation mark






37. Action has been completed






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






39. A comma






40. Singular uses singular verb

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






42. A phrase or clause






43. Is plural






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






45. Answers To whom? To what? For what?






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






47. Cannot stand alone; depends on independent clause for meaning






48. Connect words - phrases and clauses of equal grammatical value or rank (and - or - but - nor)






49. To rest (sit - sat)






50. 2 independent clauses without proper punctuation - repair w/ comma & conjuction - semicolon - or seperating them