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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Preface
Navigation Tips
Introduction
The Starting Idea: You and Your Audience
Preview of the Following Pages
December 29, 2008, as History
Two Disclaimers
On Using Sentences from the Real World
Formal Usage—Its Rules and Value
“If you don’t have grammar, you don’t have sense”
1. Actants, Actions, Ongoing States: Nouns, Verbs, and the Sentences They Form
Why Learn the Parts of Speech?
Fundamentals
Fine Tuning
Deep Focus
2. Words That Modify and Orient: Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Prepositions, Articles, Interjections
The Power of Small Words Well Deployed
Adjectives
Adverbs
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Articles
Interjections
3. Who Is He/She? Pronouns
A Whole Chapter on Pronouns?
Fundamentals
Fine Tuning
Deep Focus
4. Punctuation, Part I—The Comma: Promiscuous Uses
Introduction: Punctuation Substitutes for Oral Emphases, Facial Expressions, and Body Language
Fundamentals
Fine Tuning
Deep Focus
5. Punctuation, Part II—The Colon, Semicolon, and More Mysteries of Punctuation
The Colon and Semicolon
The Apostrophe
The Dash
The Quotation Mark
End Punctuation and Combining Sentences
6. Diction: Sentences as Clockwork
On the Interconnectedness of Words
Fundamentals
A Microconclusion
Appendix I: Fifteen Myths of Digital-Age English
Appendix II: Using This Book to Teach College Writing: A Microguide
Fifty Key Terms: A Microglossary
Works Cited
General Sources
December 29, 2008, Examples
Index
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