Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences by Bell, Janis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Grammar Terminology Chapter 1: Case

Nouns Pronouns Your and Youre Its and Its Whose and Whos Who and Whom Reflexive Pronouns Case before Gerunds QUIZ ON CASE ANSWERS TO CASE 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 QUIZ ON AGREEMENT ANSWERS TO AGREEMENT QUIZ

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 ANSWERS TO TENSE AND USAGE QUIZ

Chapter 4: Verb Mood

Indicative Mood Imperative Mood Subjunctive Mood As if and as though If Wish QUIZ ON MOOD ANSWERS TO MOOD QUIZ

Chapter 5: Modifiers

Compound Adjectives Adjective Phrases Phrases beginning with as Phrases containing verbals Adjective Clauses Modifier Forms Only QUIZ ON MODIFIERS ANSWERS TO MODIFIERS QUIZ

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 QUIZ ON CONNECTIVES ANSWERS TO CONNECTIVES QUIZ

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 Surrounding an interruption 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 (to achieve the effect of so-called) 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 QUIZ ON PUNCTUATION ANSWER TO PUNCTUATION QUIZ