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1. Nouns or pronouns previously mentioned






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






3. Adds additional info to sentence






4. If it is five yrs or older - consider repacing it






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






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






7. Not conformed to use among educated speakers






8. 2 nouns express separate ownership

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






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






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






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






13. Who - whom - whose - which & that






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






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






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






17. Known as relative pronoun clauses






18. 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






19. Expresses an action directed toward a person or thing






20. Plural ending in o w/ vowel before it






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






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






23. 2 independent clauses & 1 dependent clause






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






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






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






27. Word or groups of words that explain or rename previously mentioned nouns or pronouns






28. Bushes - Rodriguezes -Williames






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






30. Add 's (Horowitz's)






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






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






33. Verb should agree with the closer subject






34. Not capitalized-generalized person - places & things






35. Verb and its modifiers - objucts & complements






36. Verb or verb phrase the subject is doing






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






38. Formed by adding ing to present tense verb preceded by helping verb(is studying)






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






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






41. Joins nouns and pronouns to other words






42. Is generally plural and requires plural verb






43. Formed by adding r or er in one-syllable & some two syllable words or adding more/less






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






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






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






47. yrs. - CPAs - Nos.






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






49. History of word






50. To place (set - setting)