Grammar Crammer: How to Write Perfect Sentences (Study Smart Series)

CONTENTS......Page 7
Clue 1: Why We Have Trouble with Grammar......Page 12
Clue 2: Why Grammar Is So Confusing......Page 13
Clue 1: Most Nouns Can Follow the......Page 16
Catch 1:, Some Nouns Are Also Verbs......Page 17
Catch 2: Some Nouns Are Groups of Words......Page 18
Clue 2: Most Nouns Add s to Show Plural......Page 20
Catch 4: Some Singular Nouns Have Plural Meanings......Page 21
Clue 3: Possessives Can Show More Than Possession......Page 22
Catch 5: Apostrophes Are Tricky......Page 23
Catch 6: Compound Nouns Often Replace Possessives......Page 25
Checkup Quiz......Page 26
Clue 1 : Pronouns Come in Small Groups......Page 28
Catch 1: Is It I or me?......Page 31
Catch 2: Whom Isn't Dead Yet......Page 32
Clue 3: Some Pronouns Defy Logic......Page 34
Catch 3: The which/that Dilemma......Page 35
Clue 4: How to Use the Pronoun one......Page 37
Clue 5: The Verbs That Follow Indefinite Pronouns......Page 38
Checkup Quiz......Page 40
3: Verbs......Page 42
Clue 1: Memorize Tricky Irregular Verbs......Page 43
Catch 1: Look-Alike Verbs Trip Us Up......Page 50
Clue 2: Some Plural Subjects Take Singular Verbs......Page 52
Clue 3: Know How to Deal with Fancy Tenses......Page 53
Clue 4: Translate Speech Properly to Paper......Page 55
Catch 3: The Prejudice Against get......Page 57
Clue 6: A Verb Is Sometimes a Two-Word Unit......Page 58
Clue 7: Some Verbs Take Special Prepositions......Page 60
Catch 4: The Split Infinitive Has Not Yet Won Its Battle......Page 61
Clue 8: Mood Is a Sometime Thing......Page 62
Checkup Quiz......Page 63
4: Modifiers......Page 65
Clue 1: -Ly Words Are Not Always Adverbs, and Adverbs Are Not Always -Ly Words
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Catch 1: good and well, bad and badly......Page 70
Clue 2: Which Comparisons use -er, -est; and Which Use more and most......Page 71
Catch 2: Some Words Can't Be Compared......Page 72
Clue 3: Don't Use Shorthand in Comparing......Page 73
Clue 4: Clear Up the than/then Confusion......Page 74
Clue 5: Other Modifiers That Trip the Unwary......Page 76
Checkup Quiz......Page 78
5: Sentences......Page 80
Clue 1: Compound Sentences Show Related and Equally Important Thoughts......Page 81
Clue 2: Make Sure Your Compound Sentences Do the Right Job......Page 82
Clue 3: Complex Sentences Show Complicated Relationships Between Ideas......Page 83
Clue 4: Sentence Fragments Don't Fully Answer Questions......Page 84
Clue 5: Keep Verb Tenses Straight in Complex Sentences......Page 85
Clue 6: Keep the Subject from Shifting Within Its Sentence......Page 86
Clue 7: Complex Sentences Have a General Phrase Order......Page 87
Clue 8: Keep Adverbs and Adjectives in the Right Clause......Page 88
Checkup Quiz......Page 89
6: Conjunctions and Prepositions......Page 92
Clue 1: When to Use that......Page 93
Catch 1: Don't Confuse that with who......Page 94
Catch 2: Don't Confuse that with which......Page 95
Clue 2: Some Verbs Take a Subjunctive that Clause......Page 98
Clue 3: Four Tricky Conjunction Pairs......Page 99
Checkup Quiz......Page 101
Clue 1: Punctuating by Ear......Page 105
Clue 2: Other Punctuation Marks......Page 108
Checkup Quiz......Page 110
Answers to Checkup Quizzes......Page 112
Index......Page 127