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1. Shows physical or mental action






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






3. Qualities - feelings & concepts; difficult to visualize






4. Form past tense by changing root and commonly adding en to past participle (eat - ate - eaten - eating)






5. Prepositional phrases






6. Plural ending in y w/ counsonant






7. Singular






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






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






10. Is plural






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






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






13. When one noun possess another






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






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






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






17. Falls at the end of the sentence






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






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






20. yrs. - CPAs - Nos.






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






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






23. Word often implied but not actually stated






24. Expected to occur later






25. Word or groups of words that explain or rename previously mentioned nouns or pronouns






26. Used to express a fact






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






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






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






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






31. Pronouns that end in self






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






33. Used to show continuous or repeated action






34. Known as relative pronoun clauses






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






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






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






38. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






39. Present form of verb is preceded by to (to call - to write)






40. Singular uses singular verb

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






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






43. Surviving from a previous period






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






45. Add 's (Horowitz's)






46. To rest (sit - sat)






47. Adds additional info to sentence






48. Can stand alone






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






50. A comma







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