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1. Warn about the use of certain words






2. Expected to occur later






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






4. Incomplete sentence - phrase or clause






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






6. 1 independent clause; no punctuation in sentence - can be joind by and






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






8. Dependent clauses that precede independent clauses....






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






10. Person - place - thing - qualities - feelings - concepts - activities & measures






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






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






13. Occur when 2 or more adjectives appearing before a noun independently modify the noun






14. Known as relative pronoun clauses






15. Animal or things & introduces nonessential clauses






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






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






18. Plural uses plural verb

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19. Used to express command






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






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






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






23. Plural ending in s - x - z - ch - sh






24. When using the coordinating conjunction and......






25. 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






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






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






28. Words expressing strong feelings






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






30. Verb comes before the subject






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






32. Opposing or contrasting expressions (not - never - but - yet)






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






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






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






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






37. Can be singular or plural depending on the nouns they refer to






38. Often introduced by words such as then or as






39. A comma






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






41. Prepositional phrases






42. Falls at the end of the sentence






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






44. Words used in place of nouns






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






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






47. Shows physical or mental action






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






49. Degrees - personal titles & professional designations following persons name






50. Info that the reader does not need to know - it should be sett off from the rest of sentence by commas