Checking Your Grammar and Getting It Right

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The best-selling grammar guide gets a fresh, new cover design for Fall 2002.This easy-to-use reference book helps you edit your writing before someone else reads it.Parts of speech * Irregular nouns and verbsThe 100 Most Commonly Confused and Misused WordsWhat Makes a Good SentenceCapitalization * Contractions * Compound Words * Idioms Abbreviations * Punctuation * Spelling * Acronyms

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction: Twenty Common Grammatical Errors and How to Fix Them
• Section 1 Building Sentences
• Section Table of Contents (p. 9)
• A Crash Course in Sentence-building (p. 10)
• More About Subjects and Predicates (p. 11)
• Four Kinds of Sentences and What They Do (p. 14)
• Three Ways to Build a Sentence (p. 16)
• When a Group of Words is Not a Sentence (p. 18)
• Making Nouns and Verbs Work Together: Subject-Verb Agreement (p. 20)
• Section 2 Parts of Speech
• Section Table of Contents (p. 25)
• Nouns
• What is a noun? (p. 27)
• Kinds of Nouns (p. 28)
• Eight Uses of Nouns (p. 34)
• Pronouns
• What is a pronoun? (p. 41)
• Personal Pronouns (p. 41)
• Five Other Kinds of Pronouns (p. 49)
• Verbs
• What is a verb? (p. 53)
• Main Verbs and Helping Verbs (p. 54)
• Verb Tenses (p. 55)
• The Three Principal Parts of Verbs (p. 56)
• The Verb "To Be" and Other Linking Verbs (p. 60)
• Adjectives
• What is an adjective? (p. 64)
• Three Kinds of Adjectives (p. 64)
• Comparison of Adjectives (p. 66)
• Where an Adjective Goes in a Sentence (p. 68)
• Adverbs
• What is an adverb? (p. 69)
• When Adverbs Describe Verbs (p. 69)
• When Adverbs Describe Adjectives (p. 71)
• When Adverbs Describe Other Adverbs (p. 72)
• Comparison of Adverbs (p. 73)
• Prepositions
• What is a preposition? (p. 74)
• Four Things Prepositions Tell (p. 74)
• Compound Prepositions (p. 76)
• Prepositional Phrases (p. 77)
• Conjunctions
• What is a conjunction? (p. 78)
• Kinds of Conjunctions (p. 78)
• Interjections
• What is an interjection? (p. 81)
• Section 3 Style and Usage
• Section Table of Contents (p. 83)
• Punctuation Rules Everybody Needs (p. 84)
• When and Why to CAPITALIZE a Word (p. 98)
• Good Spelling Rules to Use Every Day (p. 102)
• Preventing Double Negatives (p. 111)
• Avoiding Sexist Language (p. 113)
• Homonyms: Words That Sound Alike but Are Spelled Differently (p. 115)
• 100 Easily Confused and Misused Words (p. 120)
• Contractions: Shrinking Words (p. 126)
• Building Compound Words (p. 129)
• Idioms: When Words Mean More Than They Say (p. 131)
• Initials, Acronyms, and Abbreviations (p. 133)
• Index (p. 140)