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






2. Verb should agree with the closer subject






3. One






4. Often introduced by words such as then or as






5. Describe nouns or pronouns; answer What kind? How many? Which one?






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






7. Used to join unequal sentence elements; independent & dependent clauses






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






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






10. Used to show continuous or repeated action






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






12. Indicates present - the past & future






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






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






15. To place (lay - laid - laid - laying)






16. A phrase or clause






17. Musical terms ending in o






18. Word or groups of words that explain or rename previously mentioned nouns or pronouns






19. Qualities - feelings & concepts; difficult to visualize






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






21. 1 independent clause; no punctuation in sentence - can be joind by and






22. Shortened forms of subjects & verbs (it's - there's)






23. If it is five yrs or older - consider repacing it






24. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






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






26. Noun or pronoun the sentence is about






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






28. Falls at the end of the sentence






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






30. When one noun possess another






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






32. To place (set - setting)






33. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






34. History of word






35. Words used in place of nouns






36. A comma






37. No longer used






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






39. 2 complete but related thoughts. 2 independent clauses; joined by; and - but or: or semicolon - or however - therefore






40. Plural uses plural verb

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






42. Singular






43. Answers To whom? To what? For what?






44. Join grammatically equal sentence elements. used in pairs ( both...and - either....or)






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






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






47. Generally contains over 170 -000 entries






48. Pocket & desk dictionaries; shorter and condensed






49. Used in casual writing or conversation but not formal






50. Used to express a fact