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






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






3. Who - whom - whose - which & that






4. Unrelated figures appearing side by side should be...






5. Used in casual writing or conversation but not formal






6. Connecting words






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






8. Indicates present - the past & future






9. Word often implied but not actually stated






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






11. A phrase or clause






12. Used in certain countries or regions






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






14. Musical terms ending in o






15. Plural ending in o w/ vowel before it






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






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






18. 1 independent and 1 dependent clause; dependent usually comes first w/ a comma






19. Plural ending in y w/ counsonant






20. Small; contains no more thatn 75 -000 entries






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






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






23. One






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






25. Proper nouns become plural by adding s






26. Primarily as subjects of verbs






27. Pronouns that end in self






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






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






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






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






32. Singular uses singular verb

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






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






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






36. Is plural






37. Only when a terminal clause adds unnecessaty info to the sentence....






38. Words that function as nouns - adjectives or adverbs - (gerunds - infinitives - & participles)






39. MDs - PhDs






40. Add ' (Horowitzes')






41. Complete dictionary - used in schools - libraries - newpapers - offices & organizations






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






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






44. Shows physical or mental action






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






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






47. Qualities - feelings & concepts; difficult to visualize






48. Joins nouns and pronouns to other words






49. Often introduced by words such as then or as






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