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| are words that sound like one another but have different meanings. |
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| in, at, or to that place or position. |
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| belonging to or associated with the people or things previously mentioned or easily identified. |
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| is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. |
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| is a word that describes, identifies or further defines a noun or a pronoun. |
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| a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. |
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| are groups of words that look like sentences, but aren't. To be a sentence, groups of words need to have at least one independent clause. An independent clause is any group of words that contain both a subject and a verb and can stand on its own. |
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| in which two or more independent clauses (i.e., complete sentences) are joined without an appropriate punctuation or conjunction. |
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| Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement |
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| a word used to stand for (or take the place of) a noun. A word can refer to an earlier noun or pronoun in the sentence. |
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| a punctuation mark (,) indicating a pause between parts of a sentence. It is also used to separate items in a list and to mark the place of thousands in a large numeral. |
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that a writer is introducing a quotation or a list of items.
that a writer is separating two clauses of which the second expands or illustrates the first. |
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| a punctuation mark (;) indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses, that is more pronounced than that indicated by a comma. |
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