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1. 2 nouns express combined ownership

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2. Proper nouns become plural by adding s






3. Qualities - feelings & concepts; difficult to visualize






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






5. Bushes - Rodriguezes -Williames






6. Formed by adding ing to present tense verb preceded by helping verb(is studying)






7. Commas are used to...






8. Plural ending in y w/ counsonant






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






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






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






12. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






13. Two or more






14. Primarily as subjects of verbs






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






16. Info that the reader does not need to know - it should be sett off from the rest of sentence by commas






17. Words that function as nouns - adjectives or adverbs - (gerunds - infinitives - & participles)






18. 1. positive degree-used in merely describing or in limiting anouth word. 2. comparative degree-used to compare two persons or things. 3. superlative degree- used in the comparison of 3 or more persons or things






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






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






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






22. Present form of verb is preceded by to (to call - to write)






23. Refers to syllable of a word that gets the most emphasis






24. Singular






25. Used to express doubt - a conjecture - or suggestion






26. Is plural






27. Subjects are after the verb






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






29. Noun or pronoun that answers What? or Whom?






30. Degrees - personal titles & professional designations following persons name






31. Words that connect other words or groups of words






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






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






34. Add ' (Horowitzes')






35. Describes ongoing action that will take place in future add wil be in front (I will be hearing)






36. Verb comes before the subject






37. A -an & the






38. Special symbols that hellp you pronounce words correctly






39. Word combinations that are unique to that language






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






41. yrs. - CPAs - Nos.






42. Action in a verb is directed toward the subject






43. Prepositional phrases containing verb forms are...






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






45. (however - therefore -consequently) used to effect transitions from one though to another in independent clauses






46. Used to express a fact






47. Not conformed to use among educated speakers






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






49. Used in casual writing or conversation but not formal






50. Dependent clauses that precede independent clauses....







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