Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences · A Guide to Avoiding the Most Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation by Bell, Janis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

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 QUIZ ON AGREEMENT ANSWERS TO 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 QUIZ Chapter 4: Verb Mood Indicative Mood Imperative Mood Subjunctive Mood

As if and as though If Wish

QUIZ ON MOOD ANSWERS TO 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 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 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

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 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 QUIZ