The Empowered Writer, Short Answer Matching Activity: Chapter 15

A(n) ________ should be placed as close as possible to the word it is intended to modify.

Effective, direct English is geared toward the _______ voice.

_______ refers to the way words are put together into sentences in a language.

A relative clause often functions as a(n) ________ to modify the preceding noun.

A pronoun must agree in gender, number, and person with its ________.

________ is the principle that a pronoun must agree in number, gender, and person with its antecedent.

When the subject of a sentence is the number of, the verb will be ________.

________ ensures that the elements in a sentence that have the same grammatical function are expressed in parallel structures. 

________ reference occurs when the pronoun refers to a group of words, an idea, or a concept, rather than one specific noun.

________ refer to non-specific individuals or objects.

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