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18 Cards in this Set
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when a sentence is easy to understand at its first reading, we can say it has good |
clarity |
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The term given to using the minimum number of words to express an idea is |
Conciseness |
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a sentence is a complete thought and what we day about the subject is called |
predicate |
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sentences unable to Express a complete thought, otherwise knows as a ________ sentence, are to be avoided |
Fragmented |
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when two or more complete thoughts are punctuated into one sentence the sentence is known as a |
run-off or fused sentence |
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the part if a sentence which must agree with its antecedent in number, gender or person is the |
pronoun |
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if the subject of of a sentence is singular and the verb is plural, we have what is known as a |
Lack of agreement |
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a more forceful and concise voice term is |
active |
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when we wish to avoid blaming a person we should use |
a passive voice sentence |
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words which refer to generalizations, physical objects and concepts are known as |
concrete words |
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a more forceful and concise voice term is |
active |
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an ideal sentence should be approximately |
15 to 20 words |
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choose the word below which is the correct representation of a possession word |
Anybody's |
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words which a computer cannot spell check are |
homonyms |
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a punctuation mark bot used with pronouns is the |
apostrophe |
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a noun which means "rule" or "law" is |
principle |
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a punctuation mark which separates complete thoughts ain a sentence is the |
semi-colon |
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when introducing formal lists in a report, we normally use a |
colon |
