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57 Cards in this Set
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to name aperson, place ,concrete things, intangible things
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why nouns exist
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to name aperson, place ,concrete things, intangible things
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why nouns exist
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common noun
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refers to pple, places, concrete things, and intangible things and written with lowercase
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common noun
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actor state movie
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proper noun
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specific, referring to one and only one person, place or things and written with an initial capital letter
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proper noun
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North Dakota, Frances McDormand
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compound noun
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nouns doble up to express a whole that is more than the sum of its parts
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compound noun
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film star, silver screen, award winner
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strong
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plain nouns can also be blank
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strong nouns
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thse nouns are familiar, single, short, standard, specific, definite, concrete
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brand names
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nouns so evocative that they become synonymous with the thing they name
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sloth, gluttony, fog, pretense, gobbledygook, jargon, euphemism
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7 deadly sins for nouns
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sloth
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grabbing the closest shopworn words without any guilt, or creating inelegant nouns out of other nouns
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sloth
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slapping together of prefixes on prefixes or suffixes on suffixes
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sloth
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disintermediation, decentralization, effectualization, finalization, scrutinization, utilization
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sloth
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izationization
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sloth
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cliches
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gluttony
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gourmandish urge to use five words where one would do
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gluttony
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bad weather is adverse climatic condition. rain is precipitation activity
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gluttony
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case character degree element instance kind nature persuasion
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fog
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vague and woolly words rather than concrete
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fog
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phenomenon element individual objective
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pretense
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pompous ponderous imponderable nouns
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pretense
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academics
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pretense
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when a writer preoccupied with his or her own diction loses sight of the primary goal; communication
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gobbledygook
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a year is twelve calendar months
orders are directives |
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gobbledygook
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using big words people don't understand. opposite of plain talk
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jargon
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agreed upon argot and techincal lingo
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jargon
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lawyers say; plaintiff, hearsay, felony, prima facie
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euphemism
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address something painful without causing someone else pain. description of offensive behavior through inoffensive terms
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euphemism
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firings are layoffs downsizing reshaping
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personal pronouns that are subject
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i you he she it we they
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personal pronouns that are objects
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me you him it us them
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personal pronouns taht double as adj or possessive pronouns
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my your his her its our their
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demonstrative pronouns
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this that these those
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relative pronouns
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that what whatever which whichever who whoever whom whomever whose
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indefinite pronouns
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all another any anybody anything both each either every everybody everyone everything few many most much neither no one nobody none one several some somebody someone something such
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interrogative pronouns
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what which who whom whose
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expletive pronouns
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it there
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reflexive pronouns
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myself yourself himself herself itself oursevles yourselves themselves
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reflexive pronouns
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all the person to be both subject and object
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he she it they
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3rd person pronouns
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I we
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first person pronouns
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you
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second person pronoun
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pronouns on the loose, eating your its and theys, do your child favor teach them grammar, looseygoosey references, just between you and uh..., whomdunnit, me, not myself, and I, whose on first?
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cardinal sins for pronouns (8)
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pronouns on the loose
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lose sight of antecedent: when pronoun drifts away from antecedent and meaning gets lost
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pronouns on the loose
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using "one"
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number person and gender
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pronouns must agree with antecedents in
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loosey goosey references
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a pronouns without a clear companion noun
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who
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use blank when pronoun is acting as subject
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whom
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use blank when pronoun is acting as object
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who
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use blank whenever the verb form that follows could be wrapped in parenthesis without changing the sentence
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whom
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make it blank when you would use him and her and them in place of blank
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him her them
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whom goes with
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he she it
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who goes with
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who
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use blank when pronoun starts the sentence
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whose
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can use blank when antecedent is not human
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