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1. Surviving from a previous period






2. Used to express command






3. Two or more






4. Add 's (women's - children's - boss's - class's)






5. Plural






6. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






7. Warn about the use of certain words






8. Word combinations that are unique to that language






9. Primarily as subjects of verbs






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






11. To go up (rise - rose - risen)






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






13. Subjects are after the verb






14. Not conformed to use among educated speakers






15. Person speaking - the person spoken to - or the person or object spoken of






16. Used to show continuous or repeated action






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






18. Verb and its modifiers - objucts & complements






19. Singular






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






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






22. Prepositional phrases containing verb forms are...






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






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






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






26. Words used in place of nouns






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






28. To rest (sit - sat)






29. Add ' (Horowitzes')






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






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






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






33. Known as relative pronoun clauses






34. Is plural






35. Express state of being and generally link to the subject that describe or renames them






36. Can stand alone






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






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






39. Dependent clauses that precede independent clauses....






40. 2 sentences incorrectly joind by a comma






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






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






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






44. Add 's (Horowitz's)






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






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






47. Bushes - Rodriguezes -Williames






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






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






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