Indefinite articles a, an British English modifier Interjectionadverb emphasis however oh parentheses Languagesaccent Arabic
Asian languages French German Japanese Latin punctuation Russian Spanish spelling Modifiersadjective adverb comparison dangling modifier good misplaced modifier well Moodimperative indicative subjunctiveNegativesdouble negative misplaced modifier no nobody none not nothing Nounagreement capitalization case collective noun common noun declension
gender gerund ’II names noun clause noun phrase number object person plural possessive predicate noun proper nouns subject subject complement title Numberscardinal number dates fractions one ordinal number percent zero Parts of a sentenceagent antecedent appositive clause direct object expletive fragment indirect object list nonrestrictive clause nonrestrictive phrase object phrase predicate predicate adjective
predicate noun restrictive clause restrictive phrase series subject subject complement subordination Parts of speech adjective adverb conjunction interjection noun preposition pronoun verb Prepositions about above across after against along among as at before behind below beneath beside beyond by down during for from in
into like of off on onto out prepositional phrase since through toward under up with without Pronounsagreement antecedent anybody appositive case collective pronoun declension demonstrative pronoun each everyone everything he, him, his he/she I indefinite pronoun inflection intensifier intensive pronoun interrogative pronoun it’ll me, myself modifier more
neither nobody none no one nothing one person personal pronoun plural possessive reciprocal pronoun reflexive pronoun relative pronoun -self several she/he, her/him she, her, hers some somebody someone something that their them they ’ve we who whoever whom whomever whose you your Punctuation accent apostrophe asterisk bracket clause
colon comma conjunction dash ellipsis exclamation point hyphen parentheses period question mark quotation mark semicolon sentence symbol Questionsindirect question interrogative rhetorical questionRhetorical devicesirony metaphor rhetoric simile Rulesagreement audience capitalization dialect editing grammar punctuation revision standard English style Sentence
compound sentence indirect quotation inversion paragraph quotation run-on Spellingdictionary languages Styleaudience bland writing clarity clichés editing efficiency emphasis grammar inversion order of words parallelism redundancy repetition revision tone vocabulary Symbolsasterisk emphasis percent Typographybold italic lowercase typeface
uppercase ibUsagebiBlack English British English colloquial dialect grammar jargon scientific language slang standard English Verbs active voice agreement am are auxiliary verb be can clauses compound predicate conjugation could do fragment future tense gerund have imperative infinitive inflection intransitive irregular verb is linking verb ’ll main verb may
might mood must ’nt number participle passive voice past tense plural predicate present tense regular verb shall should split infinitive tense transitive voice was wasn’t were will would Wordscompound word consonant contraction homonym main form prefix suffix syllable synonym vowel
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- Contents
- How to Use This Book
- How to Know What You Don’t Know
- How Good Are My Grammar, Writing, and Speaking?
- Chapter 1 - A
- Chapter 2 - B
- Chapter 3 - C
- Chapter 4 - D
- Chapter 5 - E
- Chapter 6 - F
- Chapter 7 - G
- Chapter 8 - H
- Chapter 9 - I
- Chapter 10 - J
- Chapter 11 - K
- Chapter 12 - L
- Chapter 13 - M
- Chapter 14 - N
- Chapter 15 - O
- Chapter 16 - P
- Chapter 17 - Q
- Chapter 18 - R
- Chapter 19 - S
- Chapter 20 - T
- Chapter 21 - U
- Chapter 22 - V
- Chapter 23 - W
- Chapter 24 - XYZ
- Key Word Index of Grammatical Terms
- Copyright
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