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9780887847233

Grammar to Go The Portable A-Zed Guide to Canadian Usage

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    9780887847233

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    0887847234

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-02-01
  • Publisher: House of Anansi Press
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Summary

Fully revised and expanded, this new edition of Rob Colter's bestseller provides straightforward solutions in three sections: Grammar and Style, Punctuation, and Spelling and Common Confusions. Within each section the entries are alphabetically arranged for easy reference.This is an indispensable grammar guide that should be in every Canadian's backpack, briefcase, or handbag.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
Grammar and Style
1(104)
Admit
2(1)
Adverbs (Go Slow)
2(1)
Among/Between
3(1)
Amount/Number
3(1)
Apostrophe
4(2)
As Far As . . . Concerned
6(1)
Beg the Question
7(1)
Being
8(1)
Capitalization
8(3)
Collective Nouns (Couple Is/Are)
11(1)
Conditional Mood (If I Would Have Known)
12(2)
Dangling Modifiers
14(1)
Dead Rules
15(2)
Documenting Sources
17(4)
Double Negatives
21(1)
Either . . . or/Neither . . . nor
22(2)
E-mail
24(3)
Euphemisms
27(1)
Hopefully
28(1)
If/Whether
28(1)
I Myself Think
29(1)
Inclusive Language
30(2)
Indirect/Direct Speech
32(4)
Issues
36(1)
Latin Abbreviations
37(3)
Latin Phrases
40(1)
Less/Fewer
41(1)
Like/As
42(2)
Likewise
44(1)
Lists
45(5)
Literal/Figurative
50(1)
Malapropism/Oxymoron
50(1)
Me/Myself (and I)
51(4)
Negative Prefixes
55(1)
Never Did It
56(1)
Numbers
57(2)
Off Of
59(1)
Parallelism
60(1)
Parts of Speech
61(4)
Passive Voice
65(1)
Phobias
66(1)
Plurals (Brothers-in-law)
67(4)
Possessive Case (Boss's)
71(5)
Prefixes
76(2)
Prepositions (Oblivious of)
78(1)
Run-on Sentences
79(1)
Sentence Fragments
80(2)
Simile/Metaphor
82(1)
Still/Yet
82(1)
Subject-Pronoun Agreement (Everyone Knows His/Her, Their)
83(2)
Subjunctive Mood (If I Were)
85(2)
These Kind of Things
87(1)
Threes
87(1)
Titles
88(1)
Unwitting Shifts
89(4)
Vagueness/Ambiguity
93(1)
Who/Which/That
94(3)
Who/Whom
97(1)
Will/Shall
98(1)
Word Inflation
99(6)
Punctuation
105(28)
Brackets
109(1)
Colon
110(1)
Comma
111(4)
Dash
115(1)
Exclamation Point
116(1)
Parentheses
117(1)
Period
118(1)
Question Mark
119(1)
Quotation Marks
120(3)
Quoting
123(5)
Semicolon
128(3)
Slash
131(2)
Spelling and Common Confusions
133(80)
Accept/Except
135(1)
Accession/Ascension
135(1)
Acetic/Ascetic/Aesthetic
136(1)
Ad/Add
136(1)
Adaptation/Adaption
137(1)
Admittance/Admission
137(1)
Adverse/Adverse
138(1)
Advise/Advice
138(1)
Affect/Effect
139(1)
Alibi/Excuse
140(1)
All right/Alright
140(1)
All together/Altogether
141(1)
Allude/Refer
141(1)
Allusion/Illusion/Delusion
142(1)
A lot
142(1)
Alternately/Alternatively
143(1)
Although/But
143(1)
Anecdote/Antidote
144(1)
Anyway/Anyways
145(1)
Apoplectic/Epileptic
145(1)
Arctic/Antarctic
145(1)
Assure/Ensure/Insure
145(1)
Astronomer/Astrologer
146(1)
Bazaar/Bizarre
146(1)
Bear/Bare
147(1)
Bias/Biased
147(1)
Biweekly
148(1)
Burnt/Learnt
149(1)
Callus/Callous
149(1)
Canadian/American/British Spelling
149(1)
Career/Careen
150(1)
Cavalry/Calvary
151(1)
Ceed/Sede/Cede
151(1)
Censor/Censure
151(1)
Changeable/Solvable
152(1)
Chauvinist/Sexist
153(1)
Childish/Childlike
153(1)
Choose/Chose
154(1)
Climactic/Climatic
154(1)
Compare To/With
154(1)
Complement/Compliment
155(1)
Comprise/Constitute/Compose
156(1)
Compulsive/Impulsive
157(1)
Condone
158(1)
Confidant/Confident
158(1)
Consequently/Subsequently
158(1)
Contemptible/Contemptuous
159(1)
Continuous/Continued
159(1)
Copyright/Copywriter
160(1)
Corps/Corpse
160(1)
Decent/Descent
161(1)
Definite/Definitive
161(1)
Denote/Connote
161(1)
Desert/Dessert
162(1)
Different from/than
162(1)
Discover/Invent
163(1)
Discriminating/Discriminatory
163(1)
Disinterested/Uninterested
164(1)
Dissociate/Disassociate
164(1)
Distrust/Mistrust
164(1)
Dived/Dove
165(1)
Egoism/Egotism
165(1)
Elicit/Illicit
165(1)
Empathize/Sympathize
166(1)
Enormous/Enormity
166(1)
Envisage/Envision
167(1)
Etc.
167(1)
Farther/Further
167(1)
Fatal/Fateful
168(1)
Fix/Repair
168(1)
Flagging/Lagging
169(1)
Flammable/Inflammable
169(1)
Flaunt/Flout
170(1)
Foreword/Forward
170(1)
Former/Latter
171(1)
Fortuitous/Gratuitous
171(1)
Founder/Flounder
172(1)
Fulsome
172(1)
Gamut/Gantlet/Gauntlet
173(1)
Got/Gotten
173(1)
Hanged/Hung
174(1)
Hark/Harp on
174(1)
Historic/Historical
175(1)
Hyphenated Words
175(3)
Ie/Ei
178(1)
Immigrate/Emigrate
178(1)
In Camera
179(1)
Incidence/Incident/Instance
179(1)
In Contrast/On the Contrary
179(1)
Incredible/Incredulous
180(1)
Infer/Imply
181(1)
It's/Its
182(1)
Jibe/Jive
183(1)
Leach/Leech
183(1)
Lead/Led
184(1)
Lend/Borrow
184(1)
Liable/Apt/Likely
184(1)
Libel/Slander
185(1)
Lie/Lay/Lie
185(1)
Loath/Loathe
186(1)
Loose/Lose
187(1)
Majority/Plurality
187(1)
Martial/Marital
188(1)
Misspell/Misspeak
188(1)
Momentarily/Presently/Currently
189(1)
Moot
189(1)
Nauseous/Nauseated
190(1)
Nickel
190(1)
Nouns ending in ``or''
191(1)
Obtuse/Abstruse
191(1)
Once in a While
192(1)
Orient/Orientate
192(1)
Parameter
193(1)
Paranoid
193(1)
Parish/Perish
193(1)
Passed/Past
194(1)
Pedal/Peddle
194(1)
Percent/Percentage/Proportion
194(2)
Perpetrate/Perpetuate
196(1)
Personal/Personnel
196(1)
Personal/Personalized
197(1)
Persons/People
197(1)
Plus/And
198(1)
Practicable/Practical
198(1)
Prescribe/Proscribe
198(1)
Principal/Principle
199(1)
Prosecute/Persecute
199(1)
Proved/Proven
199(1)
Quiet/Quite
200(1)
Regardless/Irregardless
200(1)
Requisite/Prerequisite
200(1)
Residents/Residence
200(1)
Roman Numerals
201(1)
Site/Cite/Sight
202(1)
Sound Alikes (Homonyms)
202(3)
Spayed/Spade
205(1)
Stalactite/Stalagmite
205(1)
Stationary/Stationery
206(1)
Subtle/Subtly/Subtlety
206(1)
Thank you
207(1)
They're/There/Their
207(1)
Toward/Towards
207(1)
Transpire
207(1)
Try to/Try and
208(1)
Two/To/Too
208(1)
Unique
209(1)
Unthaw/Dethaw
209(1)
Used to/Used to
210(1)
Verbal/Oral/Aural
211(1)
Weather/Whether
211(1)
Welsh/Welch
211(1)
Who's/Whose
212(1)
Worried/Worrisome
212(1)
Would of/Could of
212(1)
You're/Your
213

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