Verbs    

Whats the functions?

• States action or effort

The auditors criticized the companys accounting methods. 

• Indicates state of being

Stockholders are angry about the latest accounting revelations. 

• Indicate the possessive case and merge a subject
• Create a contraction

1. Modify nouns and some pronouns
2. Descriptive (add detail and descrition)
3. Limiting (set boundaries & limit meaning)

1. Modify a verb
2. Modify an adjective
3. Modify another adverb
4. Introduce a sentence
5. Connect two clauses
6. Ends in ly

Singular, Plural

• alumna, alumnae
• antenna, antennae
• alumnus, alumni
• cactus, cacti
• datum, data
• medium, media
• curriculum, curricula
• criterion, criteria

1. Use a comma to seperate two indepenedent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction
2. Use a comma to set off long introductary clauses and phrases
3. Use a comma to set off nonrestrictive clauses, phrases or modifiers
4. Commas and items in a series
5. commas and coordinate adjectives
6. Commas and parenthetical expressions
7. Use a comma to set off participial phrases that modify some part of an independent clause
8. Use commas in direct address
9. Use a comma to separate a city from its state and a data from its year
10. Always use commas INSIDE quotation marks. 
    

• Moreover
• However
• Accordingly
• Consequently
• Nevertheless
• Therefore

• Use a colon to introduce a quotation that is longer than a sentence
• Use a colon to introduce a quotation that starts a new paragraph
• Use a colon for times and citations

• Person, place, thing or idea
• Subject of a sentence
• direct object of a transitive verb
• predicate nominative of a linking verb
• object of a preposition
• possessive modifier of another noun

• Stands in for a noun
• allow the writer to avoid repeating a noun
• take their meaning for the nouns they replace

• never use an apostrophe with a possessive pronoun
• Nominative
• Object
• Possessive