A Commonsense Guide to Grammar and Usage, Sixth Edition

Cover Page......Page 1
Brief Contents......Page 3
Title Page......Page 5
ISBN 9780312697792......Page 6
Contents......Page 22
Preface for Instructors......Page 7
Why Use This Book? — for Students......Page 15
How to Use This Book......Page 17
Grammar without Tears......Page 29
OVERVIEW......Page 46
Lesson 1 Fragments......Page 48
Lesson 2 Run-ons: Fused Sentences and Comma Splices......Page 59
REVIEW......Page 69
OVERVIEW......Page 71
Lesson 3 Nearest-Noun Agreement Errors......Page 73
Lesson 4 Agreement with There is and There was......Page 81
Lesson 5 Agreement with Compound Subjects......Page 88
REVIEW......Page 94
OVERVIEW......Page 96
Lesson 6 Present, Past, and Tense Shifting......Page 97
Lesson 7 The Past and the Perfect Tenses......Page 105
REVIEW......Page 113
OVERVIEW......Page 115
Lesson 8 Pronoun Agreement......Page 117
Lesson 9 Vague Pronouns: This, That, and It......Page 126
Lesson 10 Choosing the Correct Pronoun Form......Page 135
Lesson 11 Who, Whom, and That......Page 144
Lesson 12 Eliminating Sexist Pronouns......Page 153
REVIEW......Page 161
OVERVIEW......Page 163
Lesson 13 Commas with And, But, Or, and Other Coordinating Conjunctions......Page 166
Lesson 14 Commas with Transitional Terms......Page 175
Lesson 15 Commas with Adverb Clauses......Page 184
Lesson 16 Commas with Introductory Elements......Page 192
Lesson 17 Commas with Adjective Clauses......Page 200
Lesson 18 Commas with Appositives......Page 209
Lesson 19 Unnecessary Commas......Page 218
REVIEW......Page 227
OVERVIEW......Page 230
Lesson 20 Apostrophes in Contractions......Page 231
Lesson 21 Apostrophes Showing Possession......Page 238
Lesson 22 Unnecessary Apostrophes......Page 247
REVIEW......Page 254
OVERVIEW......Page 257
Lesson 23 Quotation Marks with Other Punctuation......Page 259
Lesson 24 Semicolons......Page 266
Lesson 25 Colons......Page 274
Lesson 26 Capitalization......Page 282
REVIEW......Page 291
OVERVIEW......Page 293
Lesson 27 Parallelism......Page 295
Lesson 28 Passive Voice......Page 303
Lesson 29 Dangling Modifiers......Page 310
REVIEW......Page 319
OVERVIEW......Page 321
Lesson 30 I\rncorrect Plurals and Indefinite Articles with Noncount Nouns......Page 324
Lesson 31 Using A/An, Some, and The......Page 331
Lesson 32 Making Generalizations without Articles......Page 339
REVIEW......Page 346
OVERVIEW......Page 350
Lesson 33 T he Progressive Tenses......Page 352
Lesson 34 Two-Word Verbs......Page 360
Lesson 35 Information Questions......Page 369
Lesson 36 Word Order in Noun Clauses......Page 377
REVIEW......Page 384
OVERVIEW......Page 387
Lesson 37 Using Direct Quotations and Paraphrases......Page 389
Lesson 38 Citing Sources Correctly......Page 400
REVIEW......Page 412
OVERVIEW......Page 415
Types of Assignments......Page 419
Understanding What You Read......Page 420
Critical Questions for Reading......Page 423
Determine Your General Purpose......Page 426
Understand Your Audience......Page 428
Connecting Purpose and Audience......Page 429
Explore Your Subject and Develop Support......Page 431
Write a Thesis Sentence......Page 433
Plan Your Paper’s Organization......Page 434
Critical Questions for Planning......Page 437
Lesson 41 Drafting......Page 439
Write Topic Sentences and Paragraphs......Page 440
Strategies for Writing a Single-Paragraph Assignment......Page 442
Put More Support into Paragraphs......Page 444
One Student’s Draft......Page 445
Critical Questions for Drafting......Page 448
Ask Questions as You Revise......Page 450
Using Questions......Page 454
Critical Questions for Revising......Page 457
Appendix A: Brief Documentation Guide for MLA......Page 459
Appendix B: Brief Documentation Guide for APA......Page 465
Appendix C: Guide to Grammar Terminology......Page 469
Appendix D: Glossary of Commonly Confused Words......Page 484
Appendix E: Glossary of Commonly Misspelled Words......Page 487
Appendix F: Glossary of Common Two-Word Verbs......Page 489
Answer Key......Page 492
Index......Page 521
ESL Index......Page 528
Correction Symbols......Page 530
Finding What You Need in This Book......Page 531