21st Century Grammar Handbook

Wound. See wind.
Write, wrote, written. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past participle
forms.
Written. See write.
Wrote. See write.

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You. Second-person singular and plural personal pronoun. See also number.
Your, you’re. Although these words soundalike (homonyms), your is a possessive
pronoun that modi es a noun: How is your dog “You’re” is a contraction of you are See also pronoun and modifier.
You’re. See your.
Yourself. See-self.
Zero. This number should usually be written out in text, but its corresponding gure
(“0”) can be used if the emphasis of the writing is on the numerical amount The accountant’s instructions read, If the remainder is 0 to 50 cents, round down to the dollar ”

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Adjectives
comparison
-er
-est many modifier more, most much neither phrase predicate adjective prepositional phrase real superlative
Adverbs
awkwardness conjunctive adverb dangling modifier hopefully however intensifier
-ly maybe modifier prepositional phrase really revision sometime sometimes sort of split infinitive then
Case
objective possessive subjective (nominative)
Conjunctions
and

after also although as because before beside both … and but clause conjunctive adverb coordinating conjunction emphasis for however if moreover namely neither … nor nevertheless not only … but also or parallelism since so so that than that when
Gender
agreement case he/she man, mankind
Ms., Miss, Mrs.
names salutation sexist language she/he titles

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