Table of Contents
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Introduction 1
Part 1 The Names of Things 13
A Nouns 15
B Adjectives 19
C Verbs 23
Tense 23
Principal Parts 28
D Adverbs 30
E Pronouns 33
Personal Pronouns 33
Mirror Pronouns 37
Relative Pronouns 38
Question Pronouns 41
Pointing Pronouns 41
Indefinite Pronouns 42
F Prepositions 45
G Conjunctions 48
Coordinating Conjunctions 48
Correlative Conjunctions 48
Subordinating Conjunctions 49
H Interjections 51
I Articles 52
Summary 53
Batting Practice 57
Part 2 The Sentence 65
A The Subject 66
B The Predicate 70
Predicate: The Sequel 72
The Direct Object 73
The Indirect Object 74
C Phrases 75
Prepositional Phrases 75
Verbals 76
Infinitive Phrases 77
Gerund Phrases 79
Participial Phrases 80
D Clauses 82
Noun Clauses 83
Adjective Clauses 84
Adverb Clauses 85
Summary 87
Part 3 Putting It All Together 89
A Agreement 90
Subject-Verb Agreement 91
Pronoun Agreement 95
B Parallel Construction 99
C Misplaced Modifiers 105
D Faulty Comparison 110
E Idioms 114
F Diction 116
G Redundancy 127
H Voice And Mood 128
I Gender-Neutral Writing 130
Summary 133
Batting Practice 134
Part 4 Punctuation 141
A The Period 143
B The Question Mark 144
C The Exclamation Point 145
D The Comma 146
E The Semicolon 152
F The Colon 153
G Parentheses 154
H The Dash 155
I The Apostrophe 156
J The Hyphen 158
K Quotation Marks 159
L Emojis 161
Part 5 Commonly-Asked Questions and Answers 163
Part 6 7 Easy Ways to Look Bad 171
Part 7 Glossary 175
Part 8 The World Series 185
Answer Key 215