Preface
Grammar Terminology
Parts of Speech
Sentence Roles
Chapter 1: Case
Nouns
Pronouns
Your and You’re • Its and It’s • Whose and Who’s
Who and Whom
Reflexive Pronouns
Case before Gerunds
QUIZ ON CASE
ANSWERS TO QUIZ
Chapter 2: Agreement
Subject-Verb Agreement
Subjects vs. other nouns
Vague subjects
Unusual noun forms
Mass nouns
Two nouns in subject position
Noun-Pronoun Agreement
Clear nouns hazy memories
Singular generic words avoidance of double pronouns
Singular nouns representing groups distracted focus
Common Mass Nouns
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Chapter 3: Verb Tense and Usage
Present
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
Confusing Verbs
Troublesome irregular verbs
Regular verbs with irregular requirements
Frequently misspelled verbs
QUIZ ON TENSE AND USAGE
Chapter 4: Verb Mood
Indicative Mood
Imperative Mood
Subjunctive Mood
As if and as though
If
Wish
QUIZ ON MOOD
Chapter 5: Modifiers
Compound Adjectives
Adjective Phrases
Phrases beginning with as
Phrases containing verbals
Adjective Clauses
Modifier Forms
Only
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Chapter 6: Connectives
Prepositions
Like I said
Considered as
Different than
Fascinated but afraid of
Something else about which to talk
Look forward to see, committed to keep, prone to forget, on my way to buy
Conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions
Correlative conjunctions
Conjunctive Adverbs
Connectives Leading to Examples or Explanations
Punctuation
Usage
Confusing Pairs
If vs. whether
Then vs. than
Redundancies
Etc. after such as
Nor in the same clause as no or not
The reason why is because
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Chapter 7: Punctuation
Commas
Separating items in a series of three or more
Surrounding an interruption
Ending an introduction
Beginning an afterthought or final qualifier
Semicolons
Joining two closely related complete thoughts
Separating items in a series when the items contain commas or are unusually long
Colons
Dashes
Leading to an afterthought
Introducing a specific explanation
Hyphens
Parentheses
Double Quotation Marks
Surrounding words spoken or written by someone else
Surrounding words used as terms
Surrounding words used sarcastically
Surrounding titles of chapters or articles
Single Quotation Marks
Apostrophes
Representing a missing letter within a contraction
Making a noun possessive
Making an abbreviation, a letter, or a numeral plural
Ellipses
Brackets
Slashes
Question Marks
Exclamation Points
Periods
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hazy memories