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1. Often introduced by words such as then or as






2. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






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






4. Noun or pronoun that answers What? or Whom?






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






6. Action has been completed






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






8. Verb form that use with helping verbs to form the present participle and past-participle tense.






9. Verb should agree with the closer subject






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






11. Prepositional phrases containing verb forms are...






12. Word often implied but not actually stated






13. Special symbols that hellp you pronounce words correctly






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






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






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






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






18. Indicate whether a noun is plural or singular & whether it is located nearby or farther away






19. Express current action






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






21. Used to show continuous or repeated action






22. Words expressing strong feelings






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






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






25. Plural uses plural verb

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26. Not capitalized-generalized person - places & things






27. When that follows a verb expressing command - use the subjunctive verb form (be)






28. Join equal parts of sentences






29. 2000s - All Bs and Cs






30. No longer used






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






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






33. Warn about the use of certain words






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






35. Not conformed to use among educated speakers






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






37. Joins nouns and pronouns to other words






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






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






40. Musical terms ending in o






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






42. Verb or verb phrase the subject is doing






43. Noun or pronoun the sentence is about






44. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






45. Who - whom - whose - which & that






46. Collection of synonyms and antonyms






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






48. 2 independent clauses without proper punctuation - repair w/ comma & conjuction - semicolon - or seperating them






49. A comma






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