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1. Used in certain countries or regions






2. Used to express command






3. Prepositional phrases






4. Used to express a fact






5. A phrase or clause






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






7. Qualities - feelings & concepts; difficult to visualize






8. 1 independent and 1 dependent clause; dependent usually comes first w/ a comma






9. History of word






10. Musical terms ending in o






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






12. Words used in place of nouns






13. 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






14. Two or more






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






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






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






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






19. Plural






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






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






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






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






24. Not conformed to use among educated speakers






25. Often introduced by words such as then or as






26. Singular uses singular verb

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






28. MDs - PhDs






29. Commonly used as objects of vebs or objects of prepositions






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






31. Indicates present - the past & future






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






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






34. Falls at the end of the sentence






35. Expresses an action directed toward a person or thing






36. Warn about the use of certain words






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






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






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






40. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






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






42. Noun or pronoun the sentence is about






43. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






44. When one noun possess another






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






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 rest (lie - lay - lain - lying)






48. Subjects are after the verb






49. Join equal parts of sentences






50. Is singular







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