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






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






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






4. When they come before a compound subject and joined by and - the compound subject is singular






5. Prepositional phrases






6. Express action - occurrence - or a state of being






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






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






9. Warn about the use of certain words






10. To rest (sit - sat)






11. Proper nouns become plural by adding s






12. Noun - pronoun - or adjective that renames or describes the subject. completes meaning of the subject and always follows the linking verb






13. The most used & misused punctuation mark






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






15. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






16. Known as relative pronoun clauses






17. Verb should agree with the closer subject






18. Intro prepositional phrases of fewer than 4 words...






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






20. 2 independent clauses & 1 dependent clause






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






22. Words that connect other words or groups of words






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






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






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






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






27. Plural ending in y w/ counsonant






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






29. Action has been completed






30. Action verb that does not require an object to complete it's action






31. Words used in place of nouns






32. A -an & the






33. Indicates present - the past & future






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






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






36. Action in a verb is directed toward the subject






37. Verb comes before the subject






38. Primarily as subjects of verbs






39. Used to show continuous or repeated action






40. Words expressing strong feelings






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






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






43. When nouns - verbs - adverbs or adjectives change form (child--children)






44. When one noun possess another






45. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






46. Not capitalized-generalized person - places & things






47. Is singular






48. One






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






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