English Grammar Demystified - A Self Teaching Guide

338 Index

Fragments, sentence, 5–6
in e-mail, 10–11
in informal English, 7–8
Future perfect tense, 55

Gone, went, 260

Good, well, 41
Gutenberg, Johannes, 90

Had, as helping verb, 53–54

Have, of, 260
Helping verb, had as, 53–54

Homographs, 254–57
defi ned, 244

Homonyms, 244–45
defi ned, 244

Homophones, 246–53
defi ned, 244

Hyphens, 121–23

I before e except after c, 238
Ideas

conjunctive adverbs to show relationship
of, 164–67
unequal, conjunctions for, 162–64
Illogical statements, correcting, 204–5

Illusion, allusion, 262
Immigrate, emigrate, 262

Indefi nite pronouns, 61, 71–73
Independent clauses, 174–75, 181–82,

184 – 85

commas to separate, 98

in complex sentences, 179–83

in compound-complex sentences,

183 – 86

semicolons and, 104

Indirect quotations, quotation marks and,

111–12

Informal English, sentence fragments in,

7–8

Interjections, 48

function of, 26

Irregardless, regardless, 257

Irregular verbs, 19–23

It’s, its, 247

Jonson, Ben, 90, 104

Kinesthetic learner, 232

Learners, types of, 231–32

Less, fewer, 259–60

Like, as, 258–59

Linking verbs

common errors using, 36

verb tenses and, 33–34

Lists, colons and, 115–16

Loose, lose, 262

Lose, loose, 262

Manutius, Aldus, 90

Mirror pronouns, 61, 65–66

Moral, morale, 262

Mother, Dad, capitalization of, 130

Nonstandard English, 66

Nouns, 29–30

function of, 26

using verbs instead of, 193–95

Number, amount, 258

Number, subject and verb agreement and,

12–13