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






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






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






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






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






6. Describe nouns or pronouns; answer What kind? How many? Which one?






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






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






9. Verb form that use with helping verbs to form the present participle and past-participle tense.






10. When that follows a verb expressing command - use the subjunctive verb form (be)






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






12. Used to show continuous or repeated action






13. Plural uses plural verb

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






15. Shortened forms of subjects & verbs (it's - there's)






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






17. Just add ' (doctors' - bosses')






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






19. Make any noun or pronoun modifying agerund possessive. (curtis's smoking)






20. 2 nouns express combined ownership

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






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






23. Often introduced by words such as then or as






24. When nouns - verbs - adverbs or adjectives change form (child--children)






25. Words used in place of nouns






26. Noun or pronoun prepositional phrase is talking about






27. Action has been completed






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






29. Is singular






30. Subjects are after the verb






31. Can stand alone






32. Commas are used to separate word that...






33. Not capitalized-generalized person - places & things






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






35. Used to express a fact






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






37. Qualities - feelings & concepts; difficult to visualize






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






39. Verb should agree with the closer subject






40. Generally contains over 170 -000 entries






41. A -an & the






42. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






43. Are capitalized-specific person - places - & things






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






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






46. Short quotation are set off from the rest of a sentence by...






47. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






48. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






49. Intro prepositional phrases of fewer than 4 words...






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