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1. Person - place - things you can see - touch - feel - taste - smell - hear






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






3. Plural ending in y w/ vowel before it






4. Noun or pronoun that answers What? or Whom?






5. Express current action






6. Noun or pronoun prepositional phrase is talking about






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






8. Used to express doubt - a conjecture - or suggestion






9. Add ' (Horowitzes')






10. Is plural






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






12. Plural






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






14. Is singular






15. Refers to syllable of a word that gets the most emphasis






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






17. Verb and its modifiers - objucts & complements






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






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






20. Proper nouns become plural by adding s






21. Two or more






22. Known as relative pronoun clauses






23. Adds additional info to sentence






24. Nouns or pronouns previously mentioned






25. Warn about the use of certain words






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






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






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






29. Plural ending in s - x - z - ch - sh






30. Prepositional phrases containing verb forms are...






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






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






33. 2000s - All Bs and Cs






34. Subjects are after the verb






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






36. Words expressing strong feelings






37. Word often implied but not actually stated






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






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






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






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






42. 2 nouns express separate ownership


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






44. 2 sentences incorrectly joind by a comma






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






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






47. 1 independent and 1 dependent clause; dependent usually comes first w/ a comma






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






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






50. Pocket & desk dictionaries; shorter and condensed