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1. Often introduced by words such as then or as






2. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






3. Answers To whom? To what? For what?






4. Words used in place of nouns






5. Commas are used to...






6. A comma






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






8. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






9. Who may function as the subject of a verb or as the subject complement of noun following linkg verb






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






11. Verb should agree with the closer subject






12. 2 independent clauses without proper punctuation - repair w/ comma & conjuction - semicolon - or seperating them






13. Plural ending in y w/ counsonant






14. Singular uses singular verb

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15. Plural uses plural verb

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






17. Occur when 2 or more adjectives appearing before a noun independently modify the noun






18. Not capitalized-generalized person - places & things






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






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






21. Special symbols that hellp you pronounce words correctly






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






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






24. Pronouns that end in self






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






26. Plural ending in y w/ vowel before it






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






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






29. Generally contains over 170 -000 entries






30. Action has been completed






31. Prepositional phrases






32. Used in casual writing or conversation but not formal






33. 2 independent clauses & 1 dependent clause






34. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






35. Express current action






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






37. Dependent clauses that precede independent clauses....






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






39. Collection of synonyms and antonyms






40. Singular






41. A phrase or clause






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






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






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






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






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






47. Verb and its modifiers - objucts & complements






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






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






50. 2000s - All Bs and Cs