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• Cover
• Introduction
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part 1: Building a Firm Foundation: Grammar Basics
• Chapter 1: Tailoring Language to Suit Your Audience and Purpose
• Climbing the Ladder of Language Formality
• Matching Message to Situation
• Answers to “Tailoring Language to Suit Your Audience and Purpose”
• Chapter 2: Identifying the Major Elements of a Sentence
• Going to the Heart of the Matter: The Verb
• Zeroing in on the Subject
• Adding Meaning: Objects and Complements
• Answers to Questions about Major Elements of a Sentence
• Chapter 3: Having It All: Writing Complete Sentences
• Finding Subjects and Verbs that Match
• Checking for Complete Thoughts
• Improving Flow with Properly Joined Sentences
• Setting the Tone with Endmarks
• Proper Sentence or Not? That Is the Question
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Complete Sentences
• Answers to Complete Sentence Problems
• Part 2: Clearing Up Confusing Grammar Points
• Chapter 4: Finding the Right Verb at the Right Time
• Using Past, Present, and Future Tense at the Right Times
• Putting Perfect Tenses in the Spotlight
• Speaking of the Past and Things That Never Change
• Romeo Lives! Writing about Literature and Art in Present Tense
• Hitting Curveballs: Irregular Forms
• Getting a Handle on Common Irregulars: Be and Have
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Verbs
• Answers to Problems on Verbs and Verb Tenses
• Chapter 5: Agreement: Choosing Singular or Plural Verbs and Pronouns
• Meeting Their Match: Pairing Subjects and Verbs
• Matching Pronouns and Antecedents
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Hitching Subjects and Verbs
• Answers to Subject, Verb, and Pronoun Pairing Problems
• Chapter 6: Solving Pronoun Case
• Meeting the Subject at Hand and the Object of My Affection
• To “Who” or To “Whom”? That Is the Question
• You Talkin’ to Me, or I? Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions
• Matching Possessive Pronouns to “-ing” Nouns
• Missing in Action: Choosing Pronouns for Implied Comparisons
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Pronoun Case
• Answers to Advanced Pronoun Problems
• Chapter 7: Little Words Packing a Lot of Power: Prepositions and Interjections
• Pinning Down Prepositions
• Interjections Are Simple!
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Prepositions and Interjections
• Answers to Questions About Prepositions and Interjections
• Chapter 8: Writing Good or Well: Adjectives and Adverbs
• Identifying Adjectives and Adverbs
• The Right Place at the Right Time: Placing Adjectives and Adverbs
• How’s It Going? Choosing Between Good/ Well and Bad/Badly
• Mastering the Art of Articles
• For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Descriptors
• Answers to Adjective and Adverb Problems
• Part 3: Mastering Mechanics
• Chapter 9: A Hook That Can Catch You: Apostrophes
• Showing Who Owns What: Possessives
• Tightening Up Text: Contractions
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Apostrophes
• Answers to Apostrophe Problems
• Chapter 10: “Can I Quote You on That?” Quotation Marks
• Quoting and Paraphrasing: What’s the Difference?
• Giving Voice to Direct Quotations
• Punctuating Titles
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Quotation Marks
• Answers to Quotation Problems
• Chapter 11: Pausing to Consider the Comma
• Keeping Lists in Order with Commas and Semicolons
• Directly Addressing the Listener or Reader
• Punctuating Dates and Addresses
• Placing Commas in Combined Sentences
• Inserting Extras with Commas: Introductions and Interruptions
• Setting Descriptions Apart
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Commas
• Answers to Comma Problems
• Chapter 12: Handling Dashes, Hyphens, and Colons
• Dashing Off
• Helping Yourself to Hyphens
• Coming to a Stop: Colons
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Dashes, Hyphens, and Colons
• Answers to Problems on Dashes, Hyphens, and Colons
• Chapter 13: Hitting the Big Time: Capital Letters
• Paying Respect to People’s Names and Titles
• Capitalizing the Right Time and Place
• Working with Business and School Terms
• Capitalizing Titles of Literary and Media Works
• Managing Capital Letters in Abbreviations
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Capital Letters
• Answers to Capitalization Problems
• Chapter 14: Writing for Electronic Media
• Knowing Your Audience: The Right Writing for the Right Situation
• Shortening Your Message
• Powering Up Your Presentation Slides
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Electronic Media
• Answers to Electronic Media Problems
• Part 4: Going Above and Beyond: The Finer Points of Grammar and Style
• Chapter 15: Going for the Gold: The Finer Points of Verb Usage
• Voicing an Opinion: Active and Passive Verbs
• In the Mood: Selecting the Right Verb for All Sorts of Sentences
• Spicing Up Sentences by Adding Interesting Verbs
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Voice and Mood
• Answers to Voice and Mood Problems
• Chapter 16: Identifying Clauses and Their Effects
• Locating Clauses
• Sorting Independent and Subordinate Clauses
• Making Clauses Work Together
• Answers to Clause Problems
• Chapter 17: Adding Style to Sentences
• Speaking Verbally
• Playing with Sentence Patterns
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice Honing Your Sentences
• Answers to Sentence Improvement Problems
• Chapter 18: Staying on Track: Parallel Writing
• Geometry Meets English: Making Sentences Parallel
• Staying in Gear: Avoiding Unnecessary Shifts
• Following Special Rules for VIPs: Very Important Pairs
• Drawing Parallel Comparisons
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Parallels
• Answers to Parallelism Problems
• Chapter 19: Steering Clear of Confusion: Clarity
• Putting Descriptive Words in Their Proper Place
• Avoiding Illogical Comparisons
• Making Sure Your Pronouns Are Meaningful
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice in Writing Clear Sentences
• Answers to Clarity Problems
• Chapter 20: Dealing with Grammar Demons
• Dropping Double Negatives
• Telling Word-Twins Apart
• Distinguishing Between Commonly Confused Words
• Counting and Measuring Grammatically
• Taming Tricky Verbs
• Banishing Bogus Expressions
• Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Tricky Words
• Answers to Grammar Demon Problems
• Appendix: Grabbing Grammar Goofs
• Exercise One
• Exercise Two
• Exercise Three
• Exercise Four
• Exercise Five
• Exercise Six
• Answers to Exercise One
• Answers to Exercise Two
• Answers to Exercise Three
• Answers to Exercise Four
• Answers to Exercise Five
• Answers to Exercise Six
• About the Author
• Connect with Dummies
• Index
• End User License Agreement