Practical Grammar

Note to the Reader; Part I: Grammar Basics; 1. Parts of Speech; Nouns; Pronouns; Verbs; Adjectives; Adverbs; Prepositions; Conjunctions; Interactions; Review Exercises; 2. Sentence Structure; Subjects and Predicates; Phrases and Clauses; Final Notes on Sentence Types and Structure; Sentence Patterns; Review Exercises; 3. Verbs Revisited; Person; Tense; Principal Pars of the Verb; Participles; Mood; More Types of Verbs; Subjects, Objects, and Complements; Active and Passive Voice; Review Exercises; Part II: Elementary Errors; 4. Subject-Verb Agreement; Reversed Sentence Order; Words Between the Subject and Verb; Relative Pronouns; Linking Verbs; Correlated Subjects; Collective Nouns as Subjects; Compound Subjects; Plural Nouns; Indefinite Pronouns that Mean One; Indefinite Pronouns that Mean more than One; Review Exercises; 5. Pronouns--Antecedent Agreement and Pronoun Case; Clear Pronoun Reference; Agreement of Pronouns and Antecedent; Pronoun Case; Parting Tips on Pronoun Case; Review Exercises; 6. Diction and Danglers; Diction; Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers; Fixing Danglers; Review Exercises; Part III: Points of Style; 7. Parallelism and Faulty Constructions; Parallelism; Faulty Constructions; Review Exercises; 8. Punctuation; Terminal Punctuation; Internal Punctuation; Review Exercises; Writing Essentials; 9. Writing Well: A Compendium of Tips; Four Stages of Writing; Top Twelve Writing Tips; 10. Style and Documentation ; Answers to Review Exercises; Glossary of Grammatical Terms; Resource List; Index