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1. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






2. Subjects are after the verb






3. Verb should agree with the closer subject






4. Prepositional phrases






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. The most used & misused punctuation mark






12. Surviving from a previous period






13. Plural ending in s - x - z - ch - sh






14. Info that the reader does not need to know - it should be sett off from the rest of sentence by commas






15. Indicates present - the past & future






16. Occurs when a person is being addressed or spoken to directly - rather than about






17. Singular uses singular verb

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18. Word often implied but not actually stated






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






20. Qualities - feelings & concepts; difficult to visualize






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






22. Adds additional info to sentence






23. Primarily as subjects of verbs






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






25. 2 nouns express separate ownership

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






27. A comma






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






29. Word combinations that are unique to that language






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






31. 2 complete but related thoughts. 2 independent clauses; joined by; and - but or: or semicolon - or however - therefore






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






33. No longer used






34. Collection of synonyms and antonyms






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






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






37. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






38. To rest (sit - sat)






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






40. Musical terms ending in o






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






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






43. Plural uses plural verb

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44. 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






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






46. 2 independent clauses without proper punctuation - repair w/ comma & conjuction - semicolon - or seperating them






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






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






49. 's or ' on the last word (father-in-law's)






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