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Introduction | p. 1 |
Grammar: An Overview | |
Nouns and Verbs | p. 4 |
Modifiers and Other Parts of Speech | p. 31 |
Phrases | p. 44 |
Clauses | p. 61 |
Grammar: Rules, Conventions, and Errors to Avoid | |
Agreement of Subjects and Verbs | p. 82 |
Other Errors in the Use of Verbs | p. 107 |
Parallelism | p. 111 |
Errors in Modification: Misplaced, Dangling, and Ambiguous Modifiers | p. 127 |
Other Errors in Modification | p. 141 |
Personal Pronouns | p. 148 |
Agreement of Pronouns and Their Antecedents | p. 159 |
References of Pronouns | p. 168 |
Faulty Comparisons | p. 178 |
Faulty Predication | p. 183 |
Mishandled Elliptical Constructions | p. 187 |
Two Special Problems With That | p. 191 |
Punctuation: Rules, Conventions, and Errors to Avoid | |
Terminal Punctuation Marks | p. 196 |
The Comma | p. 200 |
The Semicolon and the Colon | p. 235 |
Parentheses and Dashes | p. 242 |
The Apostrophe | p. 248 |
Quotation Marks and Italics | p. 257 |
Specialized Punctuation Marks | p. 265 |
The Hyphen | p. 270 |
Punctuating Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences | p. 293 |
Mechanics and Usage | |
Capitalization | p. 303 |
The Presentation of Numbers | p. 312 |
Abbreviations | p. 316 |
Glossary of Commonly Misused Words | p. 318 |
Appendix: Subject Guide | p. 332 |
Index | p. 338 |
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