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G O O D

G R A M M A R

Joanne Suter

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CONTENTS

1 GOOD GRAMMAR GLOSSARY 1

(verb,homonym,contraction,possessive,

noun,singular,pronoun,plural)

28 GOOD GRAMMAR GLOSSARY 2

(adjective,adverb,articles,modifiers,

preposition,phrase)

2 HOMONYM HEADACHES: there,they’re,

and their

29 ADJECTIVE OR ADVERB?

30 A PESKY PAIR: Goodand Well

3 HOMONYM HEADACHES: who’s/whose,it’s/its,

you’re/your

31 MISPLACED MODIFIERS

32 DANGLING MODIFIERS

4 THE PROOFREADER: Commonly Confused

Homonyms

33 USING ARTICLES: A,An,and The

34 THE PROOFREADER: Modifier Mistakes

5 EXCEPTIONAL ENGLISH: Unusual Plurals 1

35 AVOIDING DOUBLE NEGATIVES

6 EXCEPTIONAL ENGLISH: Unusual Plurals 2

36 GOOD GRAMMAR GLOSSARY 3

(clause,conjunction,compound sentence,

subject,predicate,direct object)

7 KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: Plural Names

8 TRICKY PLURALS (letters,numbers,signs,

compound words)

37 EXCEPTIONAL ENGLISH: Irregular Verbs 1

9 EXCEPTIONAL ENGLISH: Are Group Nouns

Singular or Plural?

38 EXCEPTIONAL ENGLISH: Irregular Verbs 2

39 IT’S A MATCH: Subject-Verb Agreement

10 THE PROOFREADER: Plural Nouns

40 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT: Tricky

Situations 1

11 GOOD GRAMMAR WHEN “IF-ING” AND

“WISHING”

41 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT: Tricky

Situations 2

12 PARALLEL STRUCTURE 1: Matching Sentence

Parts

42 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT: Tricky

Situations 3

13 PARALLEL STRUCTURE 2: Making Comparisons

Match

43 VERB AGREEMENT WITH A COMPOUND

SUBJECT 1

14 THE PROOFREADER: Parallel Sentence Parts

15 UNNECESSARY PRONOUNS

44 VERB AGREEMENT WITH A COMPOUND

SUBJECT 2

16 MAKING NOUNS AND PRONOUNS MATCH

17 PRONOUN PROBLEMS (Usor We? Them,Those,

or They?)

45 THE PROOFREADER: Choosing Matching Verbs

46 A PESKY PAIR: Bringand Take

18 POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

47 MORE PESKY VERB PAIRS: Lieor Lay,

Sitor Set

19 IS IT ME?IT IS I!

20 MISPLACED PRONOUNS

48 SENTENCE SENSE: Is It a Sentence?

21 PRONOUN PROBLEMS: Whoor Whom?

49 SENTENCE SENSE: Fragments in Writing

and Speech

22 THE PROOFREADER: Pronoun Problems

23 MAKING COMPARISONS

50 RUNNING WILD: Run-on Sentences

24 EXCEPTIONAL ENGLISH: Irregular Comparisons

51 SENTENCE SENSE: Building a Sentence

25 DOUBLE COMPARISONS

52 THE PROOFREADER: Sentence Sense

26 THE PROOFREADER: Making Correct

Comparisons

53 VERBS: Activeor Passive?

54 PREPOSITIONS AND THEIR PLACE 1

27 A PESKY PAIR: Amongand Between

55 PREPOSITIONS AND THEIR PLACE 2

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56 PREPOSITIONS AND THEIR PLACE 3

79 THE PROOFREADER: Simply Incorrect

57 THE PROOFREADER: Prepositional Phrases

80 THE COLON: Common Uses

58 GOOD GRAMMAR GLOSSARY 4:

Punctuation Marks (period,exclamation point,

question mark,colon,comma,quotation

marks,semicolon)

81 THE SEMICOLON: Why and When?

82 THE DASH AND THE HYPHEN

83 THE PUNCTUATION PROOFREADER

84 PESKY PAIRS: Affect/Effect,Advise/Advice,

Accept/Except

59 END MARKS

60 COMMAS: In Compound Sentences

85 PESKY PAIRS: Angry at/Angry with,

Agree with/Agree to,Prefer to/Prefer over

61 COMMAS: Between Items in a Series

62 COMMAS: After Introductory Clauses

86 GOOD GRAMMAR GLOSSARY 5: Capitalization

(capitalize,common noun,proper noun,

proper adjective,title)

63 COMMAS: With Appositives and

Nouns of Address

64 COMMAS: With Parenthetical Words

87 TO CAPITALIZE OR NOT TO CAPITALIZE?

65 COMMAS: With Dates and Addresses

88 CAPITALIZATION: Avoiding Confusion

66 COMMAS: For Clarity

89 THE PROOFREADER: Capitalization Challenge

67 COMMAS: With Descriptive Clauses

90 CAPITALIZATION: Proper Adjectives

68 THE PROOFREADER: Comma Usage

91 ABBREVIATIONS

69 PUNCTUATING DIRECT QUOTATIONS 1

92 COMPUTER GRAMMAR: The Spell Checker

70 PUNCTUATING DIRECT QUOTATIONS 2

93 E-MAILS: Grammar Counts!

71 WRITTEN CONVERSATION

94 POLITICALLY CORRECT: Avoiding Gender Bias

72 THE PROOFREADER: A Conversation

95 RECOGNIZING GOOD GRAMMAR: Review 1

73 ONLY WITH FRIENDS: Casual Language

96 RECOGNIZING GOOD GRAMMAR: Review 2

74 INFORMAL LANGUAGE: Idioms 1

97 PROOFREADING CHALLENGE 1

75 INFORMAL LANGUAGE: Idioms 2

98 PROOFREADING CHALLENGE 2

76 SIMPLY INCORRECT 1

99 PROOFREADING CHALLENGE 3

77 SIMPLY INCORRECT 2

100 PROOFREADING CHALLENGE 4

78 GET TO THE POINT!

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