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1. Two or more






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






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






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






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






6. Qualities - feelings & concepts; difficult to visualize






7. A comma






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






9. Noun or pronoun prepositional phrase is talking about






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






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






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






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






14. To rest (lie - lay - lain - lying)






15. Prepositional phrases containing verb forms are...






16. Adds additional info to sentence






17. Bushes - Rodriguezes -Williames






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






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






20. Commas are used to...






21. Add ' (Horowitzes')






22. When dates contain more than one element....






23. Warn about the use of certain words






24. Action in a verb is directed toward the subject






25. Known as relative pronoun clauses






26. If it is five yrs or older - consider repacing it






27. Prepositional phrases






28. The most used & misused punctuation mark






29. Words used in place of nouns






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






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






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






33. Proper nouns become plural by adding s






34. Describes actions that will take place before other future actions






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






36. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






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






38. Subjects are after the verb






39. 1 independent clause; no punctuation in sentence - can be joind by and






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






41. Musical terms ending in o






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






43. Who - whom - whose - which & that






44. Add 's (Horowitz's)






45. Word often implied but not actually stated






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






47. 2 nouns express combined ownership

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48. 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






49. Dependent clauses that precede independent clauses....






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