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1. Degrees - personal titles & professional designations following persons name






2. Words expressing strong feelings






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






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






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






6. To rest (sit - sat)






7. Verb or verb phrase the subject is doing






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






9. Pocket & desk dictionaries; shorter and condensed






10. Connecting words






11. 2 independent clauses & 1 dependent clause






12. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






13. Not capitalized-generalized person - places & things






14. Expresses an action directed toward a person or thing






15. Often introduced by words such as then or as






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






17. Just add ' (doctors' - bosses')






18. A -an & the






19. To rest (lie - lay - lain - lying)






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






21. Action in a verb is directed toward the subject






22. The most used & misused punctuation mark






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






24. Opposing or contrasting expressions (not - never - but - yet)






25. Word often implied but not actually stated






26. Subjects are after the verb






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






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






29. Nonrestrictive clauses should be set off by...






30. Noun - pronoun - or adjective that renames or describes the subject. completes meaning of the subject and always follows the linking verb






31. MDs - PhDs






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






33. Expected to occur later






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






35. Singular uses singular verb

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






37. Joins nouns and pronouns to other words






38. Prepositional phrases






39. yrs. - CPAs - Nos.






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






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






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






43. One






44. 2000s - All Bs and Cs






45. Plural uses plural verb

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






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






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






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






50. Warn about the use of certain words







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