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1. Expresses an action directed toward a person or thing






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






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






4. Connect words - phrases and clauses of equal grammatical value or rank (and - or - but - nor)






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






6. Nouns or pronouns previously mentioned






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






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






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






10. Is singular






11. A comma






12. Prepositional phrases






13. Generally contains over 170 -000 entries






14. Commonly used as objects of vebs or objects of prepositions






15. Verb and its modifiers - objucts & complements






16. The most used & misused punctuation mark






17. Present form of verb is preceded by to (to call - to write)






18. Add ' (Horowitzes')






19. Used to express command






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






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






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






23. Shows physical or mental action






24. Words that connect other words or groups of words






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






26. Surviving from a previous period






27. 1. positive degree-used in merely describing or in limiting anouth word. 2. comparative degree-used to compare two persons or things. 3. superlative degree- used in the comparison of 3 or more persons or things






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






29. Pronouns that end in self






30. Not conformed to use among educated speakers






31. Who - whom - whose - which & that






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






33. Used in casual writing or conversation but not formal






34. yrs. - CPAs - Nos.






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






36. Is plural






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






38. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






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






40. Used in certain countries or regions






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






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






43. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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