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1. Words used in place of nouns






2. Noun or pronoun prepositional phrase is talking about






3. No longer used






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






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






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






7. Form past tense by changing root and commonly adding en to past participle (eat - ate - eaten - eating)






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






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






10. Is plural






11. Pronouns that end in self






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






13. Verb phrases that precede main clauses should be followed by...






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Two or more






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






22. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






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






24. Words that connect other words or groups of words






25. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






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






27. Used to show continuous or repeated action






28. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






29. History of word






30. Whom may function as the object of a verb or object of a preposition






31. Pocket & desk dictionaries; shorter and condensed






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






33. Who - whom - whose - which & that






34. 2 independent clauses without proper punctuation - repair w/ comma & conjuction - semicolon - or seperating them






35. Falls at the end of the sentence






36. Plural ending in y w/ vowel before it






37. Shows physical or mental action






38. Musical terms ending in o






39. One






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






41. Plural uses plural verb


42. Not capitalized-generalized person - places & things






43. Is singular






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






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






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






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






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






49. Can stand alone






50. Singular uses singular verb