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Business English

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






2. Special symbols that hellp you pronounce words correctly






3. Indicates present - the past & future






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






5. Used to express a fact






6. Word often implied but not actually stated






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






8. Express state of being and generally link to the subject that describe or renames them






9. Prepositional phrases






10. To place (set - setting)






11. Negative adverb is used in same sentence with negative verb.(Calling her won't do no good)






12. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






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






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






15. To rest (sit - sat)






16. Used to show continuous or repeated action






17. Used to express command






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






19. Expected to occur later






20. Join equal parts of sentences






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






22. Is singular






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






24. Verb or verb phrase the subject is doing






25. To place (lay - laid - laid - laying)






26. Complete dictionary - used in schools - libraries - newpapers - offices & organizations






27. Connecting words






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






29. Plural ending in y w/ vowel before it






30. Surviving from a previous period






31. Verb and its modifiers - objucts & complements






32. Singular






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






34. Used in certain countries or regions






35. Words used in place of nouns






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






37. Add 's (Horowitz's)






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






39. Who - whom - whose - which & that






40. 2 complete but related thoughts. 2 independent clauses; joined by; and - but or: or semicolon - or however - therefore






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






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






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






44. 2 independent clauses & 1 dependent clause






45. Dependent clauses that precede independent clauses....






46. 2 nouns express separate ownership

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47. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






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






49. Musical terms ending in o






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