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by Geraldine Woods
English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, with Online Practice, 3rd Edition
Cover
Introduction
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1: Building a Firm Foundation: Grammar Basics
Chapter 1: Tailoring Language to Suit Your Audience and Purpose
Climbing the Ladder of Language Formality
Matching Message to Situation
Answers to “Tailoring Language to Suit Your Audience and Purpose”
Chapter 2: Identifying the Major Elements of a Sentence
Going to the Heart of the Matter: The Verb
Zeroing in on the Subject
Adding Meaning: Objects and Complements
Answers to Questions about Major Elements of a Sentence
Chapter 3: Having It All: Writing Complete Sentences
Finding Subjects and Verbs that Match
Checking for Complete Thoughts
Improving Flow with Properly Joined Sentences
Setting the Tone with Endmarks
Proper Sentence or Not? That Is the Question
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Complete Sentences
Answers to Complete Sentence Problems
Part 2: Clearing Up Confusing Grammar Points
Chapter 4: Finding the Right Verb at the Right Time
Using Past, Present, and Future Tense at the Right Times
Putting Perfect Tenses in the Spotlight
Speaking of the Past and Things That Never Change
Romeo Lives! Writing about Literature and Art in Present Tense
Hitting Curveballs: Irregular Forms
Getting a Handle on Common Irregulars: Be and Have
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Verbs
Answers to Problems on Verbs and Verb Tenses
Chapter 5: Agreement: Choosing Singular or Plural Verbs and Pronouns
Meeting Their Match: Pairing Subjects and Verbs
Matching Pronouns and Antecedents
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Hitching Subjects and Verbs
Answers to Subject, Verb, and Pronoun Pairing Problems
Chapter 6: Solving Pronoun Case
Meeting the Subject at Hand and the Object of My Affection
To “Who” or To “Whom”? That Is the Question
You Talkin’ to Me, or I? Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions
Matching Possessive Pronouns to “-ing” Nouns
Missing in Action: Choosing Pronouns for Implied Comparisons
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Pronoun Case
Answers to Advanced Pronoun Problems
Chapter 7: Little Words Packing a Lot of Power: Prepositions and Interjections
Pinning Down Prepositions
Interjections Are Simple!
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Prepositions and Interjections
Answers to Questions About Prepositions and Interjections
Chapter 8: Writing Good or Well: Adjectives and Adverbs
Identifying Adjectives and Adverbs
The Right Place at the Right Time: Placing Adjectives and Adverbs
How’s It Going? Choosing Between Good/ Well and Bad/Badly
Mastering the Art of Articles
For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Descriptors
Answers to Adjective and Adverb Problems
Part 3: Mastering Mechanics
Chapter 9: A Hook That Can Catch You: Apostrophes
Showing Who Owns What: Possessives
Tightening Up Text: Contractions
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Apostrophes
Answers to Apostrophe Problems
Chapter 10: “Can I Quote You on That?” Quotation Marks
Quoting and Paraphrasing: What’s the Difference?
Giving Voice to Direct Quotations
Punctuating Titles
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Quotation Marks
Answers to Quotation Problems
Chapter 11: Pausing to Consider the Comma
Keeping Lists in Order with Commas and Semicolons
Directly Addressing the Listener or Reader
Punctuating Dates and Addresses
Placing Commas in Combined Sentences
Inserting Extras with Commas: Introductions and Interruptions
Setting Descriptions Apart
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Commas
Answers to Comma Problems
Chapter 12: Handling Dashes, Hyphens, and Colons
Dashing Off
Helping Yourself to Hyphens
Coming to a Stop: Colons
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Dashes, Hyphens, and Colons
Answers to Problems on Dashes, Hyphens, and Colons
Chapter 13: Hitting the Big Time: Capital Letters
Paying Respect to People’s Names and Titles
Capitalizing the Right Time and Place
Working with Business and School Terms
Capitalizing Titles of Literary and Media Works
Managing Capital Letters in Abbreviations
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Capital Letters
Answers to Capitalization Problems
Chapter 14: Writing for Electronic Media
Knowing Your Audience: The Right Writing for the Right Situation
Shortening Your Message
Powering Up Your Presentation Slides
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Electronic Media
Answers to Electronic Media Problems
Part 4: Going Above and Beyond: The Finer Points of Grammar and Style
Chapter 15: Going for the Gold: The Finer Points of Verb Usage
Voicing an Opinion: Active and Passive Verbs
In the Mood: Selecting the Right Verb for All Sorts of Sentences
Spicing Up Sentences by Adding Interesting Verbs
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Voice and Mood
Answers to Voice and Mood Problems
Chapter 16: Identifying Clauses and Their Effects
Locating Clauses
Sorting Independent and Subordinate Clauses
Making Clauses Work Together
Answers to Clause Problems
Chapter 17: Adding Style to Sentences
Speaking Verbally
Playing with Sentence Patterns
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice Honing Your Sentences
Answers to Sentence Improvement Problems
Chapter 18: Staying on Track: Parallel Writing
Geometry Meets English: Making Sentences Parallel
Staying in Gear: Avoiding Unnecessary Shifts
Following Special Rules for VIPs: Very Important Pairs
Drawing Parallel Comparisons
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Parallels
Answers to Parallelism Problems
Chapter 19: Steering Clear of Confusion: Clarity
Putting Descriptive Words in Their Proper Place
Avoiding Illogical Comparisons
Making Sure Your Pronouns Are Meaningful
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice in Writing Clear Sentences
Answers to Clarity Problems
Chapter 20: Dealing with Grammar Demons
Dropping Double Negatives
Telling Word-Twins Apart
Distinguishing Between Commonly Confused Words
Counting and Measuring Grammatically
Taming Tricky Verbs
Banishing Bogus Expressions
Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Tricky Words
Answers to Grammar Demon Problems
Appendix: Grabbing Grammar Goofs
Exercise One
Exercise Two
Exercise Three
Exercise Four
Exercise Five
Exercise Six
Answers to Exercise One
Answers to Exercise Two
Answers to Exercise Three
Answers to Exercise Four
Answers to Exercise Five
Answers to Exercise Six
About the Author
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Index
End User License Agreement
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