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Preface	p. viii
Subjects, Verbs, and Subject-Verb Agreement
The First Building Block Subjects	p. 2
Nouns	p. 3
Singular and Plural Nouns	p. 4
Types of Nouns	p. 4
Pronouns	p. 8
Subject Pronouns	p. 8
Indefinite Pronouns	p. 10
Identifying the Subject	p. 11
Simple and Compound Subjects	p. 12
Recognizing Subjects in Tricky Situations	p. 14
Subjects in Imperative Sentences	p. 15
Subjects as Distinct from Prepositional Phrases	p. 16
Subjects in Declarative Sentences with Here and There	p. 18
Subjects in Interrogative Sentences	p. 19
Sentences with Gerunds and Infinitives as Subjects	p. 20
Infinitives	p. 20
Chapter One Skills Review: Subjects	p. 25
The Second Building Block Verbs	p. 26
Action and Being Verbs	p. 26
Simple and Compound Verbs	p. 28
Verb Tenses	p. 29
The Simple Tense	p. 30
Simple Present	p. 30
Simple Past	p. 32
Simple Future	p. 33
The Perfect Tense	p. 34
Present Perfect	p. 35
Past Perfect	p. 35
Future Perfect	p. 36
The Progressive Tense	p. 37
Present Progressive	p. 38
Past Progressive	p. 38
Future Progressive	p. 38
The Perfect Progressive Tense	p. 40
Present Perfect Progressive	p. 40
Past Perfect Progressive	p. 40
Future Perfect Progressive	p. 40
Regular and Irregular Verbs	p. 44
Regular Verbs	p. 45
Tricky Situations with Regular Verbs	p. 45
Irregular Verbs	p. 47
Tricky Situations with Irregular Verbs	p. 50
Verb Tense Consistency	p. 53
Active and Passive Voice	p. 56
Chapter Two Skills Review: Verbs	p. 59
The Third Building Block Subject-Verb Agreement	p. 61
Subject-Verb Agreement	p. 61
Rules for Subject-Verb Agreement	p. 62
Singular Subject Rules	p. 63
Plural Subject Rules	p. 65
Subject Agreement and Regular and Irregular Verbs	p. 66
Tricky Situations in Subject-Verb Agreement	p. 69
Sentences That Start with Prepositional Phrases	p. 69
Sentence Starting with Here, There, What, Where, and Why	p. 70
Sentences with Either/or, Neither/nor, and Or	p. 72
Sentences with Interrupters	p. 73
Chapter Three Skills Review: Subject-Verb Agreement	p. 78
Pronouns
The Fourth Building Block Pronouns	p. 82
Pronoun Usage	p. 82
Subjective Case	p. 83
Objective Case	p. 86
Possessive Case	p. 88
Other Pronouns	p. 89
Who vs. Whom	p. 89
Demonstrative Pronouns	p. 90
Relative Pronouns	p. 92
Interrogative Pronouns	p. 93
Reflexive Pronouns	p. 94
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement	p. 95
Pronoun Agreement with Person	p. 96
Pronoun Agreement with Number	p. 97
Tricky Situations with Pronouns and Numbers	p. 98
Pronoun Agreement with Gender	p. 101
Chapter Four Skills Review: Pronouns	p. 106
Clauses and Kinds of Sentences
The Fifth Building Block Clauses	p. 110
Clauses	p. 110
Types of Clauses	p. 112
Independent Clause: A Clause That Makes Sense on Its Own	p. 112
Dependent Clause: A Clause That Requires More Information to Make Complete Sense	p. 113
Chapter Five Skills Review: Clauses	p. 119
The Sixth Building Block Kinds of Sentences	p. 120
Simple Sentences	p. 120
Sentence Variety	p. 122
Joining Independent Clauses: Compound Sentences	p. 123
Coordinating Conjunctions	p. 123
Adverbial Conjunctions	p. 126
Semicolons	p. 129
Joining an Independent Clause with a Dependent Clause: Complex Sentences	p. 133
Subordinating Conjunctions	p. 133
Joining Multiple Independent and Dependent Clauses: Compound-Complex Sentences	p. 139
Chapter Six Skills Review 1: Kinds of Sentences	p. 145
Chapter Six Skills Review 2: Sentence Combining	p. 146
The Seventh Building Block Avoiding Common Sentence Errors	p. 150
Fragments	p. 150
Run-ons	p. 155
Comma Splices	p. 157
Chapter Seven Skills Review: Common Sentence Errors	p. 162
Descriptors, Modifiers, Parallelism
The Eighth Building Block Adjectives and Adverbs as Modifiers	p. 166
Descriptive Modifiers	p. 166
Adjectives	p. 167
Adverbs	p. 169
Common Mistakes with Adjectives and Adverbs	p. 172
Comparative and Superlative Forms	p. 173
Regular Adjectives and Adverbs	p. 173
Irregular Adjectives and Adverbs	p. 175
Four More Tricky Adjectives and Adverbs	p. 176
Chapter Eight Skills Review: Adjectives and Adverbs	p. 180
The Ninth Building Block Using Modifiers Correctly	p. 182
Misplaced Modifiers	p. 182
Dangling Modifiers	p. 186
Chapter Nine Skills Review: Dangling or Misplaced Modifiers	p. 191
The Tenth Building Block Parallelism	p. 192
Parallelism	p. 192
Parallelism with Pairs	p. 193
Parallelism with Lists	p. 193
Parallelism in Comparisons (Than or As)	p. 196
Parallelism with Paired Expressions	p. 198
Chapter Ten Skills Review: Parallelism	p. 202
Punctuation
The Eleventh Building Block Comma Use	p. 206
Commas Used to Separate	p. 206
Commas and Conjunctions	p. 206
Commas and Items in a List	p. 209
Commas and Introductory Expressions	p. 210
Commas to Enclose	p. 211
Commas and Interrupters	p. 211
Commas and Direct Address	p. 213
Commas with Dates and Addresses	p. 214
Chapter Eleven Skills Review: Commas	p. 218
The Twelfth Building Block Other Types of Punctuation	p. 220
Apostrophe	p. 220
Semicolon	p. 223
Colon:	p. 224
Dash - and Parenthesis ()	p. 226
Hyphen -	p. 229
Quotation Marks " "	p. 230
Chapter Twelve Skills Review: Punctuation	p. 236
Appendices
Parts of Speech	p. 239
Nouns	p. 239
Pronouns	p. 239
Verbs	p. 240
Adjectives	p. 241
Adverbs	p. 241
Prepositions	p. 242
Conjunctions	p. 242
Interjections	p. 244
Appendix A Skills Review: Identifying Parts of Speech	p. 244
Spelling	p. 246
Create Spelling Lists	p. 247
Learn the eilie rule	p. 247
Know Commonly Misspelled Words	p. 247
Know Commonly Confused Words	p. 249
Know Word Endings	p. 252
Appendix B Skills Review: Spelling	p. 253
English as a Second Language Concerns	p. 254
Nouns	p. 254
Articles	p. 255
Verbs	p. 256
Prepositions	p. 257
Appendix C Skills Review: ESL Concerns	p. 258
Index	p. 260
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