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Business English

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






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






3. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






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






5. Indicates present - the past & future






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






7. Word often implied but not actually stated






8. Special symbols that hellp you pronounce words correctly






9. Needed to identify the noun to which it refers; no commas should separate this clause from antecedent






10. Pronouns that end in self






11. Pocket & desk dictionaries; shorter and condensed






12. Warn about the use of certain words






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






14. Used to express a fact






15. Dependent clauses that precede independent clauses....






16. Verb or verb phrase the subject is doing






17. Expected to occur later






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






19. Falls at the end of the sentence






20. Often introduced by words such as then or as






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






22. A comma






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






24. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






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






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






27. Can be singular or plural depending on the nouns they refer to






28. Commonly used as objects of vebs or objects of prepositions






29. A phrase or clause






30. Surviving from a previous period






31. Singular uses singular verb

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32. Join equal parts of sentences






33. Two or more






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






35. 2000s - All Bs and Cs






36. Proper nouns become plural by adding s






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






38. Used to express command






39. One






40. 1 independent and 1 dependent clause; dependent usually comes first w/ a comma






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






42. Shows physical or mental action






43. 2 complete but related thoughts. 2 independent clauses; joined by; and - but or: or semicolon - or however - therefore






44. Used in certain countries or regions






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






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






47. Plural ending in s - x - z - ch - sh






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






49. To rest (sit - sat)






50. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses