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1. Commas are used to...






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






3. yrs. - CPAs - Nos.






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






5. Who - whom - whose - which & that






6. Words used in place of nouns






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






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






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






10. Verb should agree with the closer subject






11. Nouns or pronouns previously mentioned






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






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






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






15. Describes past actions that took place before other past action






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






17. Action has been completed






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






19. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






20. Singular uses singular verb

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21. 2 nouns express combined ownership

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22. Two or more






23. Indicates present - the past & future






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






25. Primarily as subjects of verbs






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






27. Connecting words






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






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






30. Used in certain countries or regions






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






32. Action in a verb is directed toward the subject






33. Add 's (Horowitz's)






34. Words that connect other words or groups of words






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






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






37. Prepositional phrases






38. History of word






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. Collection of synonyms and antonyms






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






46. A comma






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






48. Adds additional info to sentence






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






50. 2000s - All Bs and Cs