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






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






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






4. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






5. Proper nouns become plural by adding s






6. 1 independent clause; no punctuation in sentence - can be joind by and






7. 2 nouns express combined ownership

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8. Simple subject and all modifiers (words that describe or limit)






9. Word often implied but not actually stated






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






11. 1 independent and 1 dependent clause; dependent usually comes first w/ a comma






12. Not capitalized-generalized person - places & things






13. MDs - PhDs






14. No longer used






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






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






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






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






19. Adds additional info to sentence






20. Faculty - committee - team - group - jury-may be singular or plural depending on how they are used






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






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






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






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






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






26. Connecting words






27. 2 sentences incorrectly joind by a comma






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






29. The-is used to describe a specific person or thing. can be used with singular or plural verbs






30. Pronouns that end in self






31. Is plural






32. Plural uses plural verb

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33. Noun or pronoun the sentence is about






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






35. Verb should agree with the closer subject






36. Answers To whom? To what? For what?






37. Verb comes before the subject






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






39. To rest (lie - lay - lain - lying)






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






41. May be used to create transitions between thoughts (after all - by the way - for example)






42. Pocket & desk dictionaries; shorter and condensed






43. Primarily as subjects of verbs






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






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






46. A comma






47. Can be singular or plural depending on the nouns they refer to






48. A phrase or clause






49. Singular






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