Grammar And Usage For Better Writing

Grammer & Usage for Better Writing......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
Contents......Page 3
Introduction......Page 7
Part I: Parts of Speech......Page 9
1. The Subject......Page 11
2. The Predicate......Page 15
3. Verbs......Page 18
4. Nouns......Page 30
5. Compound Subjects......Page 46
6. Compound Verbs......Page 49
7. Nouns as Direct Objects......Page 53
8. Nouns as Indirect Objects......Page 56
9. Pronouns and Antecedents......Page 60
10. Review of Verbs, Nouns, and Pronouns......Page 69
11. Adjectives......Page 76
12. Adverbs......Page 87
13. Review of Adjectives and Adverbs......Page 97
14. Prepositions......Page 102
15. Conjunctions......Page 110
16. Interjections......Page 116
17. Review of Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections......Page 119
Part II: Sentence Composition......Page 123
18. Characteristics of Good Sentences......Page 124
19. Clear, Forceful Sentences......Page 131
Part III: Common Usage Errors......Page 157
20. Problems with Sentence Structure......Page 158
21. Problems with Nouns......Page 179
22. Problems with Verbs......Page 183
23. Problems with Modifiers......Page 197
24. Problems with Pronouns......Page 201
25. Problems with Punctuation......Page 209
26. Problems with Capitalization......Page 222
27. Problems with Spelling......Page 229
Part IV: Basic Paragraph Composition......Page 239
28. The Paragraph......Page 240
29. Unity in the Paragraph......Page 243
30. The Topic Sentence......Page 247
31. The Clincher Sentence......Page 250
32. Developing a Paragraph with Reasons......Page 252
33. Developing a Paragraph with Examples......Page 257
34. Varying Sentence Beginnings......Page 261
Index......Page 267