Chapter 1   The Basics: Parts of Speech              

Chapter 2   The Basics: Sentence Structure                

...and more

 

Chapter 3   The Basics: Punctuation and Capitalization

Periods and Other Ending Marks

   Commas
  Semicolons
   Colons
   Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces
  Hyphens and Dashes
   Italics
   Quotation Marks
  Capitalization

Chapter 4   Things Not to Use

    Dead Words
    A Comma to Separate Sentences
    Could of/Should of/Would of
  Conjunction to Start a Sentence
    Double Negatives
   Try and
   Apostrophes in Plurals
  Comma Between Subject and Verb
  Unclear Pronouns and Antecedents......
and more

 

Chapter 5   Confusing Things

    Already/All ready

Affect/Effect

Among/Between

Bad/Badly

Compliment/Complement

Desert/Dessert

Further/Farther, Toward/Towards

However and Therefore

I/Me and Who/Whom

Lay/Lie

Leave/Let

Less/ Fewer

Like/As if

Lose/Loose

Only: Where to Put It

Principal/Principle

Titles: Italics or Quotes?

  Rise/Raise

Sit/Set

Than/Then

That/Who/Which

They’re/Their/There

To/Too/Two

  Who’s/Whose

...and more

Chapter 6    Some Grammar Issues

  Agreement

  Comparison

   Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers

   Possessives

   Active and Passive Voices

       Verb Tense Consistency

     Irregular Verb Forms

     Parallel Structure

     Verbals: Participles and Gerunds

...and more

 

 

Chapter 7    Finishing Touches

Capitalization in Titles

Series and Lists

Numbers: When to Spell Them Out

Commonly Misspelled Words

Commonly Mispronounced Words

The Big Kahuna: Writing!!

...and more

 

Glossary

Index