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1. Shows physical or mental action






2. Formed by adding d or ed to present tense verb preceded by helping verb (has applied - have built)






3. Can stand alone






4. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






5. Falls at the end of the sentence






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






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






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






9. No longer used






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






11. Adds additional info to sentence






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






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






14. Shortened forms of subjects & verbs (it's - there's)






15. Connecting words






16. Used to express command






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






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






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






20. Prepositional phrases






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






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






23. Who - whom - whose - which & that






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






25. Short quotation are set off from the rest of a sentence by...






26. 2 complete but related thoughts. 2 independent clauses; joined by; and - but or: or semicolon - or however - therefore






27. Add 's (Horowitz's)






28. To place (set - setting)






29. 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






30. Are capitalized-specific person - places - & things






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






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






33. Plural ending in y w/ vowel before it






34. Action in a verb is directed toward the subject






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






36. Not conformed to use among educated speakers






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






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






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






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






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






42. Dependent clauses that precede independent clauses....






43. Words that connect other words or groups of words






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






45. Commas are used to...






46. When one noun possess another






47. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






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






49. Occurs when a person is being addressed or spoken to directly - rather than about






50. Known as relative pronoun clauses







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