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1. Two or more






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






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






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






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






6. Falls at the end of the sentence






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






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






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






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






11. Plural ending in y w/ counsonant






12. Singular uses singular verb

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13. Singular






14. Verb or verb phrase the subject is doing






15. The most used & misused punctuation mark






16. Describes actions that will take place before other future actions






17. Verb form ending in ing that is used as a noun. often desctibes activities.






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






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






20. Complete dictionary - used in schools - libraries - newpapers - offices & organizations






21. Not capitalized-generalized person - places & things






22. Used to express doubt - a conjecture - or suggestion






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






24. Words that connect other words or groups of words






25. 2 sentences incorrectly joind by a comma






26. Musical terms ending in o






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






28. Used to express command






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






30. Nouns or pronouns previously mentioned






31. Add ' (Horowitzes')






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






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






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






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






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






37. Used in casual writing or conversation but not formal






38. Used to express a fact






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






40. 2000s - All Bs and Cs






41. Prepositional phrases






42. Used to show actions that are already completed or perfected






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






44. Warn about the use of certain words






45. To lift up; to elevate (raise - raised)






46. A comma






47. Used in certain countries or regions






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






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






50. yrs. - CPAs - Nos.