- CHAPTER 1 The Essential Elements of the English Sentence PART ONE ALL ABOUT THE ENGLISH SENTENCE
- Subject and Verb
- Sentence Fragments and Run-Ons
- and Verb Time and Number: Agreement Between Subject
- Perfect Verb Tenses
- Irregular Verbs
- CHAPTER 2 Introduction to the Parts of Speech
- Parts of Speech
- Nouns
- Verbs
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Pronouns
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Interjections
- Articles
- CHAPTER 3 More About Verbs, Prepositions, and Pronouns vi Contents
- Perfect Tenses
- Prepositional Phrases
- More About Pronouns
- Personal Pronouns
- Ownership Pronouns
- Mirror Pronouns
- Relative Pronouns
- Who,Whom,That, or Which?
- Demonstrative Pronouns
- Indefi nite Pronouns
- PART ONE TEST
- CHAPTER 4 Punctuation: End Marks and Commas AND CAPITALIZATION
- Brief History of Punctuation
- Period
- Question Mark
- Exclamation Point
- Comma
- CHAPTER 5 More About Punctuation
- Semicolon
- Quotation Marks
- Colon
- Apostrophe
- Dash and Hyphen
- Parentheses and Brackets
- CHAPTER 6 Capitalization
- Brief History of the Alphabet and Capitalization
- Modern Rules of Capitalization
- PART TWO TEST
- CHAPTER 7 Building Better Sentences PART THREE MASTERING GOOD SENTENCE STRUCTURE
- Building Balanced Sentences
- Creating Well-Connected Sentences
- Sentences Trimming Unnecessary Words from
- CHAPTER 8 Punctuation Builds Sentences
- Punctuation in Sentence Building
- Simple Sentences
- Compound Sentences
- Complex Sentences
- Compound-Complex Sentences
- CHAPTER 9 Style and Clarity
- Writing Clearer Sentences
- Using Active Verbs
- Placing Important Information Last
- Using Verbs Instead of Nouns
- Avoiding Unclear Pronoun References
- Placing Descriptive Words Correctly
- Deleting Unnecessary Words
- Correcting Illogical Statements
- Writing Balanced Sentences—a Reminder
- Using Prepositions Correctly in a Series
- PART THREE TEST
- CHAPTER 10 Proven Techniques to Improve Spelling USAGE SKILLS
- Who Needs Help with Spelling?
- Techniques for Improving Spelling Skills
- Helpful Spelling Rules—or Not
- Becoming a Better Speller
- CHAPTER 11 Correct Word Usage viii Contents
- and Homographs Easily Confused Words: Homonyms, Homophones,
- Incorrectly Used Words and Phrases
- Different Meanings Words That Sound Almost Alike but Have
- PART FOUR TEST
- FINAL EXAM
- APPENDIX A Most Commonly Misspelled Words
- APPENDIX B The 50 Most Deadly Common Errors
- Answer Key
- Index
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