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| 2015705560 | What is a phrase? | one or more words that function as a unit | 0 | |
| 2015705561 | What is a clause? | a group of words that has a subject and a finite verb where the subject does the action indicated by the verb | 1 | |
| 2015705562 | What is a finite verb? | Verb changed from infinitive form to indicate time | 2 | |
| 2015705563 | What are progressive verbs? | put a form of "to be" in front of the main verb (present participle) | 3 | |
| 2015705564 | When do you separate items in a series by commas? | When the adjectives are coordinate, meaning you can put the adjectives in any order without changing the meaning | 4 | |
| 2015705565 | What principle is taught in "Interestingly, the evidence does not support the author's conclusion?" | Use a comma to separate and introductory word or phrase from the rest of a sentence | 5 | |
| 2015705566 | Do you use a comma after a verb that introduces a quotation? | Yes | 6 | |
| 2015705567 | When do you not use a comma to separate two independent clauses that are joined by coordinating conjunctions? | If the clauses are short, or are closely related | 7 | |
| 2015705568 | What are non restrictive modifiers? | Non-Restrictive modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses that must be set off from the rest of the sentence with commas. It is not necessary to the meaning of the sentence | 8 | |
| 2015705569 | What is the primary use of the semicolon? | Link together two independent clauses that are closely related. | 9 | |
| 2015705570 | When are semicolons used in a series? | When commas are used to separate items that make up the same part of the series: I have lived in Seattle, WA; Palo Alto, CA; and Park Forest, IL. | 10 | |
| 2015705571 | True or False: Colons should be proceeded by a complete sentence? | True | 11 | |
| 2015705572 | Colon is used to introduce information, specifically... | Quotations, lists, and examples are all common | 12 | |
| 2015705573 | What is a pair of dashes equivalent to? | commas or parenthesis when setting off a parenthetical phrase | 13 | |
| 2015705574 | How do you use a dash to indicate an abrupt transition or change of direction? | use a dash to emphasize a word, phrase, or clause attached to a main clause. | 14 | |
| 2015705575 | Can a dash also be used like a colon? Which is more formal? | Yes. Colon wears a tuxedo, dash wears a t-shirt | 15 | |
| 2015705576 | "Jones and Smith's findings are revolutionary." Did Jones and Smith work together or separate? How about "Jones' and Smith's..." | Together Separate | 16 | |
| 2015705577 | hers or her's? | hers | 17 | |
| 2015705578 | everybodys or everybody's | everybody's | 18 | |
| 2015705579 | no ones or no one's | no one's | 19 | |
| 2015705580 | What is the current trend for plural numbers such as a set of multiple number 7, and referring to a group of years like the eighties? What about the plural of letters? | 7s, 1980s p's | 20 | |
| 2015705581 | What is the rule for question marks, exclamation points and dashes and quotations? | Inside quotations if if they appear in the quote alone or if they are a part of the sentence and the quote. If the mark applies to the sentence but not the quote, outside. | 21 | |
| 2015705582 | Do you ever put semicolons or colons inside quotations? | No | 22 | |
| 2015705583 | What publications do you put the title in quotations? | Journals and periodicals | 23 | |
| 2015705584 | What punctuation do you use to set off words, letters, and numbers that are used to designate themselves? | Italics or paranthesis | 24 | |
| 2015705585 | What titles are put in italics? | books, journals, magazines, newspapers, plays, artistic works, and the names of ships | 25 | |
| 2015705586 | Which foreign words are italicized and which are not? | all foreign words except those that have become Anglicized (rendezvous, bourgeois, zeitgeist, lingua franca, etc. et al.) | 26 | |
| 2015705587 | Parenthesis are the same as dashes and commas, you can use them to... | Enclose extraneous material that is inserted into a sentence. They are different in that you can enclose an entire sentence. | 27 | |
| 2015705588 | Punctuation should come inside or outside parenthesis? | Outside | 28 | |
| 2015705589 | What is the difference between a three and four period ellipse and how are they used differently? | Three-Used to show a portion of a sentence is missing Put a space after the last word quotes, in between each period, and before the next word. Four-Used to show where entire sentences or more have been excluded. Leave no space after the last word and first period, space between all four, and before beginning letter of first word after the ellipse | 29 | |
| 2015705590 | Do you use ellipse at the beginning but it's okay to use at the end? T or F | False, don't use ellipse at the beginning or end | 30 | |
| 2015705591 | Capital all proper nouns and their derivatives. T or F | T | 31 | |
| 2015705592 | Do you capitalize days and months? | Yes | 32 | |
| 2015705593 | Are seasons capitalized? If so when? | Only if they are in a title | 33 | |
| 2015705594 | When would you not capitalize west? | When it is used as a direction, not a geographical location | 34 | |
| 2015705595 | What do you capitalize in curriculum studies? | Only names that are already proper nouns | 35 | |
| 2018025303 | What is the general rule for when nouns are not capitalized? | If they begin with "a" or "an" | 36 | |
| 2018025304 | What do you do with compound adjectives? | Link them with a hyphen | 37 | |
| 2018025305 | Do you use a hyphen when the adverb ends in -ly? | No | 38 | |
| 2018025306 | When do you use figure to express numbers below 10? | When they are grouped in comparison to other numbers greater than 10. When figures immediately precede a unit of measurement Anything with mathematics and statistics Scores and points on a scale numerals (numbers 1 through 6) participants in an experiment population sample exact sums of money list of four or more numbers (all could be below 10) all numbers in an abstract of a paper part of a book, table, specific place in numbered series | 39 | |
| 2018025307 | When do you use words instead of figures to express numbers? | Beginning of a sentence, Title or heading common fractions fourth of july ten commandments | 40 | |
| 2018025308 | When do you use a combination of letters and numbers? | 4 million back to back modifiers (2 two-way radios) | 41 | |
| 2018025309 | When a sentence contains a compound subject joined by or or nor, the verb should agree with which of the nouns? | The one closer example: "drugs or alcohol is..." "alcohol or drugs are..." | 42 | |
| 2018025310 | What indefinite pronouns take on the singular form? | each, everyone, either, neither, anybody, somebody | 43 | |
| 2018025311 | In a parenthetical phrase, the verb should agree with the subject, not the content in the paranthesis | - | 44 | |
| 2018025312 | Two or more subjects joined by and take on plural form | - | 45 | |
| 2018025313 | When the subject and predicate are inverted, locate the subject and make sure the verb matches. Example: Included in the folder was/were her letter of application and resume | were | 46 | |
| 2018025314 | Is "please follow Mr. Jones and myself" correct? | No. "Please follow Mr. Jones and me." | 47 | |
| 2018025315 | What is the definition of imply? | to express indirectly | 48 | |
| 2018025316 | What is the definition of infer? | to draw conclusions from facts | 49 | |
| 2018025317 | Is lay a transitive or intransitive verb? | transitive-to put or place something | 50 | |
| 2018025318 | What are the past tenses of lie? | lie, lay, lain, lying | 51 | |
| 2018025319 | What are past tenses of lay? | Lay, laid, laid, laying | 52 | |
| 2018025320 | Fewer modifies what kind of nouns? Less modifies what kind of nouns? | Fewer modifies count nouns. Less modifies mass nouns | 53 | |
| 2018025321 | What is the definition of allusion? Illusion | Indirect reference False picture | 54 | |
| 2018025322 | What is the definition of principal? Principle? | Main idea, school administrator, money idea or doctrine | 55 | |
| 2018025323 | What is the difference between site, sight, and cite? | sight-view site-location cite-citation | 56 | |
| 2018025324 | What are the components of the passive voice? | form of the word to be+a past participle | 57 |
