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1. Qualities - feelings & concepts; difficult to visualize






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






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






4. Surviving from a previous period






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






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






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






8. Is plural






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






10. Word combinations that are unique to that language






11. Adds additional info to sentence






12. Not conformed to use among educated speakers






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






14. Occur when 2 or more adjectives appearing before a noun independently modify the noun






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






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






17. Expresses an action directed toward a person or thing






18. To place (set - setting)






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






20. Pocket & desk dictionaries; shorter and condensed






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






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






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






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






25. Noun or pronoun prepositional phrase is talking about






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






27. MDs - PhDs






28. Subjects are after the verb






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






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






31. Formed by adding ing to present tense verb preceded by helping verb(is studying)






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






33. Verb comes before the subject






34. Verb and its modifiers - objucts & complements






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






36. Add ' (Horowitzes')






37. No longer used






38. 1 independent clause; no punctuation in sentence - can be joind by and






39. Verb should agree with the closer subject






40. Prepositional phrases containing verb forms are...






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






42. Primarily as subjects of verbs






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






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






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






46. Noun or pronoun the sentence is about






47. Indicates present - the past & future






48. Connecting words






49. 2 complete but related thoughts. 2 independent clauses; joined by; and - but or: or semicolon - or however - therefore






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