Description: Introduction. Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics. Chapter 1: Placing the Proper Verb in the Proper Place. Chapter 2: Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Pairing Subjects and Verbs Correctly. Chapter 3: Who Is She, and What Is It? The Lowdown on Pronouns. Chapter4: Finishing What You Start: Writing Complete Sentences. Part II: Mastering Mechanics. Chapter 5: Exercising Comma Sense. Chapter 6: Made You Look! Punctuation Marks That Demand Attention. Chapter 7: One Small Mark, a Whole New Meaning: Apostrophes. Chapter 8: "Let Me Speak!" Quotation Marks. Chapter 9: Hitting the Big Time: Capital Letters. Part III: The Pickier Points of Correct Verb and Pronoun Use. Chapter 10: The Case Of It (And Other Pronouns). Chapter 11: Choosing the Best Pronoun for a Tricky Sentence. Chapter 12: Traveling in Time: Tricky Verb-Tense Situations. Chapter 13: Are You and Your Verbs in the Right Mood? Part IV: All You Need to Know about Descriptions and Comparisons. Chapter 14: Writing Good or Well: Adjectives and Adverbs. Chapter 15: Going on Location: Placing Descriptions Correctly. Chapter 16: For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons. Chapter 17: Appleas and Oranges: I,proper Comparisons. Part V: Writing with Style. Chapter 18: Practicing Parallel Structure. Chapter 19: Spicing Up and Trimming Down Your Sentences. Chapter 20: Steering Clear of Tricky Word Traps. Part VI: The Part of Tens. Chapter 21: Then Overcorrections. Chapter 22: Ten Errors to Avoid at All Cost. Appendix: Grabbing Grammar Goofs. Index.

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