A pocket guide to correct grammar

Vincent Foster Hopper, Cedric Gale, Ronald C. Foote, Benjamin W. Griffith

Barron's Educational Series, Jul 1, 1990 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 175 pages

Principles of good grammar & standard English usage with practical analysis of the parts of speech demonstrating correct sentence structure, spelling, punctuation & usage.

Contents

• The Word 1 The Noun: 1
• The Pronoun: 6
• The Verb: 14
• The Adjective and the Adverb: 23
• The Verbal: 29
• Prepositions and Conjunctions: 32
• Sentence Connectors: 34
• The Interjection: 35
• The Sentence and Its Parts 9 The Subject and the Predicate: 36
• Sentence Errors 10 Sentence Fragments: 56
• The Comma Fault: 59
• Logic and Clarity 13 Agreement of Subject and Verb: 61
• Agreement of Pronoun and Antecedent: 70
• Faulty Pronoun Reference: 74
• Case: 79
• Dangling Modifiers 64: 84
• Misplaced Modifiers: 88
• Spilt Constructions: 93
• Omission of Necessary Words: 102
• Emphasis Consistency and Appropriateness 22 Emphasis: 105
• Consistency: 114
• Variety: 116
• Terminal Punctuation: 119
• The Comma: 121
• Misuse of the Comma: 128
• The Semicolon: 129
• The Colon: 130
• The Dash: 131
• The Apostrophe: 132
• Parentheses and Brackets: 133
• Italics: 138
• Avoiding Wordiness: 140
• Glossary of Words and Phrases Frequently Misused: 143
• Which Prepositions Go with Which Verbs?: 156
• Conjugations and Principal Parts: 159
• Index: 167

Bibliographic information

• Title: A pocket guide to correct grammar; Barron's Pocket Guides Series
• Authors: Vincent Foster Hopper, Cedric Gale, Ronald C. Foote, Benjamin W. Griffith
• Editors: Cedric Gale, Ronald C. Foote
• Contributor: Benjamin W. Griffith
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, 1990
• ISBN: 0812043812, 9780812043815
• Length: 175 pages
• Subjects: English language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Reference / General