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






2. Expected to occur later






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






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






5. Joins nouns and pronouns to other words






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






7. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






8. Indicates present - the past & future






9. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






10. Primarily as subjects of verbs






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






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






13. 2000s - All Bs and Cs






14. 2 independent clauses & 1 dependent clause






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






16. A comma






17. Special symbols that hellp you pronounce words correctly






18. 2 nouns express combined ownership

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






20. A -an & the






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






22. MDs - PhDs






23. Often introduced by words such as then or as






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






25. Falls at the end of the sentence






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






27. Noun or pronoun prepositional phrase is talking about






28. Express current action






29. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






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






31. Generally contains over 170 -000 entries






32. Commas are used to...






33. To place (set - setting)






34. Noun or pronoun the sentence is about






35. Join equal parts of sentences






36. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






37. Word combinations that are unique to that language






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






44. Nouns or pronouns previously mentioned






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






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






47. Pronouns that end in self






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






49. Prepositional phrases containing verb forms are...






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