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






2. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






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






4. Action in a verb is directed toward the subject






5. Person - place - thing - qualities - feelings - concepts - activities & measures






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






7. Person speaking - the person spoken to - or the person or object spoken of






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






9. Who - whom - whose - which & that






10. Prepositional phrases containing verb forms are...






11. Known as relative pronoun clauses






12. Plural ending in y w/ vowel before it






13. Are capitalized-specific person - places - & things






14. History of word






15. Expected to occur later






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






17. Nouns or pronouns previously mentioned






18. Noun or pronoun prepositional phrase is talking about






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






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






21. Words that connect other words or groups of words






22. Add ' (Horowitzes')






23. Indicates present - the past & future






24. Used to express a fact






25. Separate 2 or more adjectives that equally modify or describe a noun






26. Describes ongoing actions that occured in the past - usually as another action was taking place






27. 2000s - All Bs and Cs






28. Words that function as nouns - adjectives or adverbs - (gerunds - infinitives - & participles)






29. Can stand alone






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






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






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






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






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






35. Not capitalized-generalized person - places & things






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






37. Intro prepositional phrases of fewer than 4 words...






38. Musical terms ending in o






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






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






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






42. Shows physical or mental action






43. To rest (sit - sat)






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






45. Word combinations that are unique to that language






46. Singular uses singular verb

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47. 2 sentences incorrectly joind by a comma






48. Words expressing strong feelings






49. Answers To whom? To what? For what?






50. Is plural