Grammar 101 : from split infinitives to dangling participles, an essential guide to understanding grammar / Kathleen Sears

Includes index.

1. Spelling -- Plurals -- Spelling mnemonics -- Prefixes, suffixes, and root words -- Common spelling mistakes -- 2. Punctuation -- End punctuation -- Quotation marks -- The apostrophe -- The comma -- 3. Colons, semicolons, dashes, and more -- The hyphen, dash, and slash -- Parentheses -- Ellipsis points -- Italics and underlining -- 4. Main parts of speech -- Noun -- Pronoun -- Adjective -- Verb -- Adverb -- Preposition -- Conjunction -- Interjection -- 5. Pronouns -- First-, second-, and third-person pronouns -- Subjective, objective, and possessive pronouns -- Who and whom -- 6. Additional parts of speech -- Participles -- Gerunds -- Infinitives -- Subjects and predicates -- Complements -- 7. Tenses and forms -- Irregular verbs -- Moods -- Making comparisons -- Double negatives -- 8. Clauses, and sentence structure -- Fundamental phrases -- Clauses -- Constructing sentences -- Subject-verb agreement -- 9. Constructing coherent sentences -- Misplaced modifiers -- Parallelism -- Logical sentences -- Fragments -- Run-on sentences -- Transitional words and phrases -- 10. Mistakes and misused phrases -- Clichés -- Repetition and wordiness -- Common grammatical mistakes -- Common writing errors -- Appendix : root words, prefixes, and suffixes.

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