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1. 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






2. Action in a verb is directed toward the subject






3. Noun or pronoun prepositional phrase is talking about






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






5. Qualities - feelings & concepts; difficult to visualize






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






7. Verb should agree with the closer subject






8. Falls at the end of the sentence






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






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






11. Nonrestrictive clauses should be set off by...






12. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






13. A -an & the






14. Join equal parts of sentences






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






16. History of word






17. Used to express command






18. Pronouns that end in self






19. Not capitalized-generalized person - places & things






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






21. Expected to occur later






22. Known as relative pronoun clauses






23. Plural ending in y w/ vowel before it






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






25. Joins nouns and pronouns to other words






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






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






28. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






29. Add 's (Horowitz's)






30. Verb comes before the subject






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






32. Special symbols that hellp you pronounce words correctly






33. To place (set - setting)






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






35. 2 sentences incorrectly joind by a comma






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






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






38. Dependent clauses that precede independent clauses....






39. yrs. - CPAs - Nos.






40. Used in certain countries or regions






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






42. Musical terms ending in o






43. A comma






44. Prepositional phrases






45. Adds additional info to sentence






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






47. Primarily as subjects of verbs






48. Nouns or pronouns previously mentioned






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






50. Plural ending in o w/ vowel before it