The Writer's Digest grammar desk reference /
A guide to grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviations, with a glossary of commonly misused words.
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Cincinnati :
Writer's Digest Books,
©2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Grammar overview
- Nouns and verbs
- Modifiers and other parts of speech
- Phrases
- Clauses
- Part II: Grammar: rules, conventions, and errors to avoid
- Agreement of subjects and verbs
- Other errors in the use of verbs
- Parallelism
- Errors in modification: misplaced, dangling, and ambiguous modifiers
- Other errors in modification
- Personal pronouns
- Agreement of pronouns and their antecedents
- Reference of pronouns
- Faulty comparisons
- Faulty predication
- Mishandled elliptical constructions
- Two special problems with that
- Part III: Punctuation: Rules, conventions, and errors to avoid
- Terminal punctuation marks
- The comma
- The semicolon and the colon
- Parentheses and dashes
- The apostrophe
- Quotation marks and italics
- Specialized punctuation marks
- The hyphen
- Punctuating compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
- Part IV: Mechanics and usage
- Capitalization
- The presentation of numbers
- Abbreviations
- Glossary of commonly misused words
- Appendix: Subject guide.