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






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






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






4. Unrelated figures appearing side by side should be...






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






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






7. Adds additional info to sentence






8. Connecting words






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






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






11. Join equal parts of sentences






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






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






14. Two or more






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






16. Plural uses plural verb

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17. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






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






19. Primarily as subjects of verbs






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






21. 2 nouns express separate ownership

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






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






24. Shows physical or mental action






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






26. Who - whom - whose - which & that






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






28. Pocket & desk dictionaries; shorter and condensed






29. Plural






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






31. Dependent clauses that precede independent clauses....






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






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






34. Small; contains no more thatn 75 -000 entries






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






36. Answers To whom? To what? For what?






37. A -an & the






38. Joins nouns and pronouns to other words






39. Noun or pronoun prepositional phrase is talking about






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






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






42. Special symbols that hellp you pronounce words correctly






43. Collection of synonyms and antonyms






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






45. Generally contains over 170 -000 entries






46. Subjects are after the verb






47. Can stand alone






48. Add 's (Horowitz's)






49. To rest (sit - sat)






50. Verb expresses an action directed by the subject toward the object of verb