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Business English

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1. Special symbols that hellp you pronounce words correctly






2. No longer used






3. Noun - pronoun - or adjective that renames or describes the subject. completes meaning of the subject and always follows the linking verb






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






5. Add ' (Horowitzes')






6. Join grammatically equal sentence elements. used in pairs ( both...and - either....or)






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






8. Pocket & desk dictionaries; shorter and condensed






9. Adds additional info to sentence






10. yrs. - CPAs - Nos.






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






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






13. Person - place - things you can see - touch - feel - taste - smell - hear






14. Verb and its modifiers - objucts & complements






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






16. Plural uses plural verb

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17. Used in certain countries or regions






18. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






19. Shows physical or mental action






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






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






22. Dependent clauses that precede independent clauses....






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






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






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






26. Describes ongoin actions that occured in the past - usually as another action is taking place






27. 2 independent clauses without proper punctuation - repair w/ comma & conjuction - semicolon - or seperating them






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






29. A phrase or clause






30. Who may function as the subject of a verb or as the subject complement of noun following linkg verb






31. Connecting words






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






33. Used to express a fact






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






35. Used to effect a transition from one thought to another & they may consist of more than one word (also called transitional expressions or conjunctions)






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






37. Expected to occur later






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






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






40. 2 sentences incorrectly joind by a comma






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






42. Verb should agree with the closer subject






43. Verb form ending in ing that is used as a noun. often desctibes activities.






44. Words that connect other words or groups of words






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






46. Expresses an action directed toward a person or thing






47. The-is used to describe a specific person or thing. can be used with singular or plural verbs






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






49. Intro prepositional phrases totaling 4 or more words...






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