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1. No longer used






2. Used in casual writing or conversation but not formal






3. Not conformed to use among educated speakers






4. Plural






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






6. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






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






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






9. Describes actions that began in the past & have continued to the present






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






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






12. Used in certain countries or regions






13. 2 sentences incorrectly joind by a comma






14. Joins nouns and pronouns to other words






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






16. Commas are used to...






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






18. Action in a verb is directed toward the subject






19. To rest (sit - sat)






20. When that follows a verb expressing command - use the subjunctive verb form (be)






21. Warn about the use of certain words






22. Pocket & desk dictionaries; shorter and condensed






23. Plural ending in o w/ vowel before it






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






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






26. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






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






28. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






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






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






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






32. Singular uses singular verb

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33. Used to show continuous or repeated action






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






35. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






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






37. yrs. - CPAs - Nos.






38. Dependent clauses that precede independent clauses....






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






40. 2 nouns express combined ownership

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






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






43. Known as relative pronoun clauses






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






45. Bushes - Rodriguezes -Williames






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






47. Noun or pronoun the sentence is about






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






49. A phrase or clause






50. Is singular