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Object pronouns, 27, 43
Of, have, 260
Ownership pronouns, 43, 61, 64–65
Paragraphs, verb tenses in, 13–14
Parallel construction, 154
Parallel verb forms, for balanced
sentences, 157–58
Parallelism, prepositions and, 207–10
Parentheses, 123–24
use of periods in, 91
Parts of speech, 26–27. See also
Adjectives; Adverbs; Articles;
Conjunctions; Interjections; Nouns;
Prepositions; Pronouns; Verbs
Passive verbs, 188–90
Past perfect tense, 53–54
Perfect verb tenses, 18–19. See also Future
perfect tense; Past perfect tense;
Present perfect tensePeriods, 91–93
abbreviations and, 91–92
acronyms and, 91
after sentences, 91
parentheses and, 91
quotation marks and, 91
sentences ending in abbreviations and,
91
two-letter state abbreviations and,
92
Personal, personnel, 262
Personal pronouns, 61–64
Personnel, personal, 262
Phonemes, 232
Plural indefi nite pronouns, 71
Plurals, forming, 238–40
Pointing pronouns, 61
Prefi xes, spelling and, 234–35
Prepositional phrases, 57–60
determining agreement with, 17–18
Prepositions, 44–46
function of, 26
parallelism and, 207–10
in series, 207–10
Present perfect tense, 52–53
Pronoun references, avoiding unclear,
195–98
Pronouns, 42–44
demonstrative, 70–71
function of, 26
indefi nite, 61, 71–73
mirror, 61, 65–66
ownership, 43, 61, 64–65
personal, 61
pointing, 61
relative, 61, 67–71
types of, 61
Punctuation. See also Apostrophes;
Colons; Commas; Dashes;
Exclamation points; Hyphens;
Parentheses; Periods; Question marks;
Quotation marks; Semicolons
history of, 89–90
in sentence building, 171–72Question marks, 93–95
Quiet, quite, 262
Quotation marks, 111–14
direct quotations and, 111–12
indirect quotations and, 111–12
periods and, 91
rules for, 112–14