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






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






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






4. 2 nouns express separate ownership

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5. A comma






6. The-is used to describe a specific person or thing. can be used with singular or plural verbs






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






8. 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






9. Verb should agree with the closer subject






10. Words used in place of nouns






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






12. Plural






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






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






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






16. Plural uses plural verb

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17. Not capitalized-generalized person - places & things






18. Indicate whether a noun is plural or singular & whether it is located nearby or farther away






19. Who - whom - whose - which & that






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






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






22. Plural ending in o w/ vowel before it






23. Proper nouns become plural by adding s






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






25. Is plural






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






27. One






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






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






30. Joins nouns and pronouns to other words






31. Indicates present - the past & future






32. Expected to occur later






33. Word often implied but not actually stated






34. Used to express doubt - a conjecture - or suggestion






35. The most used & misused punctuation mark






36. When addresses are written in sentence form....






37. 2 sentences incorrectly joind by a comma






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






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






40. Collection of synonyms and antonyms






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






42. Needed to identify the noun to which it refers; no commas should separate this clause from antecedent






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






44. 1 independent clause; no punctuation in sentence - can be joind by and






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






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






47. To place (lay - laid - laid - laying)






48. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






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






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







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