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Common terms and phrases
abbreviations Acronyms and Initialisms adjectives appear appositive appropriate auxiliary auxiliary verb avoid beginning bound stems Canada Canadian capital co-ordinating conjunction colloquial commas to separate common comparison compound conjunctive adverb cross-country skiing direct object emphasis English entry example Exercises express faulty following sentences footnote function gerund grammatical Handmaid's Tale hyphen icebergs ideas INCORRECT REVISED independent clause indicate infinitive inflected instructor kinds language letters main clause main verb meaning names NON-FINITE VERBS Non-restrictive modifiers NONCE WORD Note omitted outline paragraph parallel parentheses PASSIVE VOICE past participle past tense period person plural preceding predicate prefixes problems punctuation question mark quotation marks reader reference research paper REVISED REVISED rewrite roman numerals semicolon sentence fragments singular skiing slang specific speech spelling subject complement subordinate clause suffix things tion topic sentence underlined usage usually verb phrase word ends