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






2. Noun or pronoun the sentence is about






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






4. 2 nouns express separate ownership

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






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






7. Words used in place of nouns






8. Action in a verb is directed toward the subject






9. Used to express command






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






18. Joins nouns and pronouns to other words






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






20. Intro prepositional phrases of fewer than 4 words...






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






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






23. Proper nouns become plural by adding s






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






25. Warn about the use of certain words






26. Formed by adding r or er in one-syllable & some two syllable words or adding more/less






27. Plural uses plural verb

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28. Pocket & desk dictionaries; shorter and condensed






29. Used in casual writing or conversation but not formal






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






31. Prepositional phrases






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






33. 2 independent clauses & 1 dependent clause






34. Express current action






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






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






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






38. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






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






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






41. Words that connect other words or groups of words






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






43. Answers To whom? To what? For what?






44. Action has been completed






45. Shows physical or mental action






46. When dates contain more than one element....






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






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






49. Subjects are after the verb






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







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