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Business English

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






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






3. Musical terms ending in o






4. Words expressing strong feelings






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






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






7. A phrase or clause






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






9. Subjects are after the verb






10. Cannot stand alone; depends on independent clause for meaning






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






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






13. One






14. Generally contains over 170 -000 entries






15. 's or ' on the last word (father-in-law's)






16. Action in a verb is directed toward the subject






17. Join equal parts of sentences






18. Used to express command






19. Express current action






20. Formed by adding ing to present tense verb preceded by helping verb(is studying)






21. Occurs when a person is being addressed or spoken to directly - rather than about






22. Plural ending in y w/ counsonant






23. Shows physical or mental action






24. Verb should agree with the closer subject






25. Formed by adding d or ed to present tense verb preceded by helping verb (has applied - have built)






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






27. Used to show continuous or repeated action






28. Singular






29. Often introduced by words such as then or as






30. A comma






31. Commas are used to...






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






33. Add 's (Horowitz's)






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






35. Short quotation are set off from the rest of a sentence by...






36. 2 nouns express separate ownership

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






38. Used in casual writing or conversation but not formal






39. Connecting words






40. Is plural






41. Singular uses singular verb

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






43. Indicate whether a noun is plural or singular & whether it is located nearby or farther away






44. Bushes - Rodriguezes -Williames






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






46. Joins nouns and pronouns to other words






47. Verb or verb phrase the subject is doing






48. Used to express a fact






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






50. Noun or pronoun prepositional phrase is talking about