21st Century Grammar Handbook


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participle in an unpredictable way (see conjugation): Present do, does past did past participle:
done. These forms are important because they are commonly used with other verbs

when do plays an auxiliary role I did not see him Forms of do are also commonly confused or used wrong Jan done killed the bug Jan done it RIGHT:
“Jan killed the bug Jan did it.”
Doesn’t. The contraction of does not which should normally not be used informal writing.
Dollars. Put a dollar sign before any amounts in gures, and indicate cents after a decimal “$1.95.” No additional spaces or punctuation is needed. When spelling out
numbers, spell out dollars after the figures Ten dollars changed hands.”
Sums of dollars can be singular if they are seen as lumps of money rather than individual bills A billion dollars is a lot of money.”
If you are dealing with non-American dollars, you can distinguish between currencies by putting an abbreviation before the gure and dollar sign—“C$1.95,”
indicating Canadian dollars—or, preferably, by following the gure with a parenthetical expression of su cient length to make the matter clear “$1.95 (Cor (Can Dollars of various kinds are used in many countries, so you should be sure to distinguish between any countries that could be confused by single-letter abbreviations.
Don’t. The contraction of do not which should not be used normally in standard
English writing.

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