- 1 Following grammatical guidelines Preface ix
- Discovering nouns
- Knowing the articles
- Making use of pronouns
- Finding out about verbs
- Recognising interjections
- Checklist
- Practising what you’ve learnt
- 2 Learning about sentence construction
- Analysing the simple sentence
- Introducing phrases
- Identifying main clauses
- Identifying subordinate clauses
- Checklist
- Practising what you’ve learnt
- 3 Varying your sentences
- Experimenting with simple sentence
- Forming compound sentences
- Checking your commas
- Forming complex sentences
- Writing non-sentences
- Assessing the mood
- Checklist
- Practising what you’ve learnt
- 4 Colouring your writing
- Describing the nouns
- Comparing adjectives
- Helping your verbs
- Comparing adverbs
- Dealing with other adverbs
- Checklist
- Practising what you’ve learnt
- 5 Making sense of punctuation
- Experimenting with the semicolon
- Using the colon
- Discovering the dash
- Looking at brackets
- Remembering the question mark
- Avoiding the exclamation mark
- Checklist
- Practising what you’ve learnt
- 6 Handling apostrophes and abbreviations
- Showing possession
- Abbreviating words
- Handling contractions
- Using initial letters
- Using acronyms
- Checklist
- Practising what you’ve learnt
- 7 Writing dialogue
- Setting out direct speech
- Using quotations
- Using titles
- Changing to indirect speech
- Writing a play
- Checklist
- Practising what you’ve learnt
- 8 Avoiding common mistakes
- Revising your punctuation
- Making nouns and verbs agree
- Using pronouns correctly
- Avoiding tautologies
- Avoiding malapropisms
- Checking homophones
- Coping with homonyms
- Checking your spelling
- Correcting common mistakes
- Checklist
- Practising what you’ve learnt
- 9 Improving your style
- Structuring a paragraph
- Summing up
- Eliminating jargon
- Avoiding clichés
- Dispensing with colloquial language
- Choosing your words
- Varying your style
- Checklist
- Practising what you’ve learnt
- 10 Revising your work
- Revising the parts of speech
- Reviewing sentence construction
- Checking punctuation marks
- Remembering apostrophes
- Writing in paragraphs
- Reviewing dialogue
- Checklist
- Concluding the review
- 11 Making use of the dictionary and thesaurus
- Using the dictionary
- Utilising the thesaurus
- Checklist
- Answers to exercises
- Glossary
- Further reading
- Index
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