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| Introduction |
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How to Use Flash Review for English Grammar |
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Who Uses Flash Review for English Grammar? |
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What Grammar Review Is Provided? |
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What Flash Review for English Grammar Can Do for You |
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| EXPLORING ENGLISH GRAMMAR |
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Grammar: What It Is and How It Works |
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Getting Over Your Fear of Grammar |
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How Grammar Can Help You Succeed in School, at Work, and in Life |
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Using Grammar in College Writing |
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Using Grammar in your Everyday Life |
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Glossary of Grammatical Terms |
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| YOUR ENGLISH GRAMMAR COURSE AND YOU |
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Making the Most of Your Grammar Course |
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Prepare Yourself for What's Ahead |
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Keep a Computerized Notebook |
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Highlight and Mark Your Textbook |
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Mapping Flash Review for English Grammar to Other Grammar-Focused Texts |
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| FLASH WEB LINKS FOR ENGLISH GRAMMAR |
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| GRAMMAR REVIEW |
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Sentences and Grammar (Sections 1-27) |
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The Sentence and Its Parts |
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The Two Parts of a Sentence |
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Ways of Classifying Sentences |
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The Parts of Speech: A Survey |
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Words That Express Doing or Being: Verbs |
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Words That Express Emotion: Interjections |
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Words as More than One Part of Speech |
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Using Adjectives and Adverbs |
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Using Adjectives and Adverbs Correctly |
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Avoiding Adjective and Adverb Errors |
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Avoiding Faulty Reference |
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Recognizing Phrases and Clauses |
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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement |
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Creating Effective Sentences |
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Conquering the ``Big Three'' Sentence Errors |
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Avoiding Other Sentence Faults |
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Punctuation (Sections 28-54) |
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Do Not Use a Question Mark |
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The Exclamation Point [!] |
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Do Not Use an Exclamation Point |
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Use an Apostrophe with Possessive Nouns |
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Use Regular (Double) Quotation Marks [``''] to Enclose a Direct Quotation |
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Use Double Quotation Marks Also to Enclose |
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Use Single Quotation Marks [`'] |
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Use Other Marks with Quotation Marks |
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Do Not Use Quotation Marks |
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Use Parentheses (Always in Pairs) |
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Mechanics and Spelling (Sections 55-69) |
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Generally, Write Out a Number in Words When |
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Write Amounts of Money as Follows |
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In Ordinary Writing, Abbreviate |
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In Ordinary Writing, Do Not Abbreviate |
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Spelling Improvement Techniques |
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Nonstandard and Alternative Spellings |
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Word Choice (Sections 70-73) |
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Be Concise, Clear, and Original |
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Maintain the Appropriate Language Level |
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Use Nondiscriminatory Terms |
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Distinguish Between Similar Words |
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Paragraphs (Sections 74-75) |
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Paragraph Form and Length |
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