Introduction |
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UNIT 1 EXPLORING GRAMMAR AND STYLE |
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Chapter 1 Sampling the Ingredients of Grammar and Style |
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What This Year's Sentence Is Wearing: Understanding Grammar and Style |
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Getting to Know the Elements of Grammar and Style |
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Small but important: Punctuating, capitalizing, and spelling |
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Recognizing Your Grammar Profile |
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Chapter 2 Adapting Language to Every Situation |
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Grasping the Power and Limits of Standard English |
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Adjusting Language to Suit Your Audience |
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Wanna get something to eat? Friendspeak |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 2 Quiz |
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UNIT 2 EXPLORING PARTS OF SPEECH |
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Chapter 3 People to See, Places to Go, Things to Remember: Recognizing Nouns |
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Naming ideas and emotions with nouns |
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Sorting Out Singular and Plural Nouns |
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Adding the letters S or ES to form plurals |
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Plurals that break the rules |
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Attaching "This," "These," and Other Words to Nouns |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 3 Quiz |
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Chapter 4 Meeting the Pronoun Family |
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Working Hard: Pronouns and Their Jobs |
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Doubling back with -self pronouns |
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Creating connections, asking questions |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 4 Quiz |
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Chapter 5 Existing and Acting with Verbs |
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Expressing Meaning with Verbs |
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Meeting the Families: Linking and Action Verbs |
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Linking verbs: A giant equal sign |
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Lights! Camera! Action verb! |
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Pop the Question: Locating the Verb |
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Calling the Help Line for Verbs |
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Timing is everything: Creating a time frame with helping verbs |
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Don't ask! Questions and negative statements |
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Adding shades of meaning with helping verbs |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 5 Quiz |
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Chapter 6 Two Real Really Good Parts of Speech: Adjectives and Adverbs |
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Clarifying Meaning with Descriptions |
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Adjectives describing nouns |
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Adjectives describing pronouns |
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Adjectives attached to linking verbs |
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Pop the question: Identifying adjectives |
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Articles: Not just for magazines |
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Stalking the Common Adverb |
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Pop the question: Finding the adverb |
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Adverbs describing adjectives and other adverbs |
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Choosing Between Adjectives and Adverbs |
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Sorting out "good" and "well" |
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Dealing with "bad" and "badly" |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 6 Quiz |
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Chapter 7 Tiny but Mighty: Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections |
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Proposing Relationships: Prepositions |
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Pop the question: Questions that identity the objects of the prepositions |
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Why pay attention to prepositions? |
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Connecting with Conjunctions |
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Improving flow and adding meaning with conjunctions |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 7 Quiz |
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UNIT 3 BASIC ELEMENTS OF A SENTENCE |
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Chapter 8 Who's Doing What? Identifying the Subject-Verb Pair |
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Baring the Bones of a Sentence: The Subject-Verb Pair |
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When One Is Not Enough: Compound Subjects and Verbs |
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Pop the Question: Locating the Subject-Verb Pairs |
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Popping the question for questions |
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Not missing in action: Detecting you-understood |
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Don't Get Faked Out: Avoiding Fake Verbs and Subjects |
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"Here" and "there" sentences |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 8 Quiz |
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Chapter 9 Handling Complements |
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Getting a Piece of the Action: Complements for Action Verbs |
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Receiving the action: Direct objects |
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Rare, but sometimes there: Indirect objects |
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No bias here: Objective complements |
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Completing the Equation: Subject Complements |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 9 Quiz |
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Chapter 10 When All Is Said and Done: Complete Sentences |
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Completing Sentences: The Essential Subjects and Verbs |
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Not flying solo: Verb forms ending in -ing |
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Past verb forms that can't stand alone |
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Complete Thoughts, Complete Sentences |
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Reaching the End of the Line: End Marks |
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Breaking Away from Sentence Fragments |
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Placing fragments in the right context |
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Steering clear of inappropriate fragments |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 10 Quiz |
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Answers to Chapter 10 Quiz |
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Chapter 11 No Santas but Plenty of Clauses |
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Grasping the Basics of Clause and Effect |
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Sorting Subordinate and Independent Clauses |
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Defining the Three Legal Jobs for Subordinate Clauses |
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Describing nouns and pronouns |
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Describing verbs, adjectives, or adverbs |
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Acting as subjects, objects, or subject complements inside another clause |
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Untangling Subordinate and Independent Clauses |
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Deciding When to Untangle Clauses |
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When you're picking a pronoun |
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When you're deciding on the correct verb |
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When you're figuring out where to put commas |
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Choosing Content for Subordinate Clauses |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 11 Quiz |
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Answers to Chapter 11 Quiz |
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UNIT 4 CLEARING UP CONFUSING GRAMMAR POINTS |
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Chapter 12 Relax! Understanding Verb Tense, Voice, and Mood |
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It's All in the Timing: Tense |
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Simplifying matters: The simple tenses |
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Using the simple tenses correctly |
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Not picture-perfect: Understanding the perfect tenses |
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Employing the perfect tenses correctly |
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Speaking of the past and things that never change |
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Romeo lives! Writing about literature and art in present tense |
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The rebels: Dealing with irregular verbs |
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Getting Your Verbs in the Proper Mood |
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Stating the facts: Indicative |
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Commanding your attention: Imperative |
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Discovering the possibilities: Subjunctive |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 12 Quiz |
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Answers to Chapter 12 Quiz |
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Chapter 13 Agreement: Choosing Singular or Plural Verbs and Pronouns |
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Making Subjects and Verbs Agree: The Basics |
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Matching Subjects and Verbs in Some Tricky Situations |
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Ignoring distracting descriptions |
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Either and neither, alone or with partners |
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The ones, the things, and the bodies |
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Agreeing with Relative Pronouns |
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Politics and Other Irregular Subjects |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 13 Quiz |
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Answers to Chapter 13 Quiz |
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Chapter 14 Solving Pronoun Case |
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While We're on the Subject: Choosing Pronouns to Act as Subjects |
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Taking an Objective Viewpoint: Choosing Pronouns to Art as Objects |
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Dealing with direct and indirect objects |
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Are you talking to I? Prepositions and pronouns |
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Attaching objects to verbals |
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Knowing the Difference Between Who and Whom |
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Picking Pronouns for Comparisons |
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Dealing with Pronouns and -ing Nouns |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 14 Quiz |
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Answers to Chapter 14 Quiz |
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Chapter 15 Getting Specific: The Power of Descriptions |
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Creating Comparisons with Adjectives and Adverbs |
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Ending it with -er or giving more to adjectives |
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Creating comparisons with adverbs |
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Breaking the rules: Irregular comparisons |
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Resolving incomplete and illogical comparisons |
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On Location: Placing Descriptions Correctly |
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Just hanging out: Danglers |
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Avoiding confusing descriptions |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 15 Quiz |
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Answers to Chapter 15 Quiz |
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UNIT 5 SPELLING, PUNCTUATION, AND CAPITALIZATION |
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Chapter 16 Becoming a Better Speler Speller |
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Following the Rules of English Spelling |
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Checking the Dictionary for Spelling Help |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 16 Quiz |
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Answers to Chapter 16 Quiz |
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Chapter 17 Little Hooks, Big Problems: Apostrophes |
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The Pen of My Aunt or My Aunt's Pen? Using Apostrophes to Show Possession |
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Sharing the wealth: Plural possessives |
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A few special possessions |
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Shortened Words for Busy People: Contractions |
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Making short work of common contractions |
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You coulda made a contraction mistake |
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Managing Tricky Contraction/Pronoun Pairs |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 17 Quiz |
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Answers to Chapter 17 Quiz |
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Chapter 18 Quotations: More Rules Than the Strictest Teacher |
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Quotations with speaker tags |
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Quotations without speaker tags |
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Quotations with question marks |
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Quotations with exclamation points |
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Quotations with semicolons |
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Quotations inside quotations |
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Germ-Free Quotations: Using Sanitizing Quotation Marks |
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Punctuating Titles: When to Use Quotation Marks |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 18 Quiz |
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Answers to Chapter 18 Quiz |
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Chapter 19 The Pause That Refreshes: Commas |
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Distinguishing Items: Commas in Series |
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Using "Comma Sense" to Add Information to Your Sentence |
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Essential or extra? Commas tell the tale |
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Commas with appositive influence |
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You Talkin' to Me? Direct Address |
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Using Commas in Addresses and Dates |
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Getting Started: The Introductory Comma |
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Words not connected to the meaning of the sentence |
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Punctuating Independently |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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352 | (2) |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 19 Quiz |
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Answers to Chapter 19 Quiz |
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Chapter 20 Useful Little Marks: Dashes, Hyphens, and Colons |
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Inserting Information with Dashes |
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H-y-p-h-e-n-a-t-i-n-g Made Easy |
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Understanding the great divide |
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Using hyphens for compound words |
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360 | (1) |
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Placing hyphens in numbers |
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Utilizing the well-placed hyphen |
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Creating a Stopping Point: Colons |
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Addressing a business letter or an email |
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363 | (1) |
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Introducing long quotations |
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364 | (3) |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 20 Quiz |
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Answers to Chapter 20 Quiz |
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Chapter 21 Capital Letters |
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Knowing What's Up with Uppercase |
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Capitalizing (or Not) References to People |
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Writing about family relationships |
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Tackling race and ethnicity |
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Capitalizing Geography: Directions and Places |
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Marking Seasons and Other Times |
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Capitalizing Work and School Terms |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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385 | (3) |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 21 Quiz |
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Answers to Chapter 21 Quiz |
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Chapter 22 Adding Meaning with Well-Chosen Words |
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"There is" a problem with boring verbs |
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Does your writing "have" a problem? |
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Don't just "say" and "walk" away |
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Pinpointing Meaning with Nouns and Descriptions |
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397 | (3) |
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Saving Time: Cutting Unnecessary Words |
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400 | (1) |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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403 | (2) |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 22 Quiz |
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405 | (2) |
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Answers to Chapter 22 Quiz |
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407 | (2) |
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Chapter 23 Grammar Gremlins |
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Deleting Double Negatives |
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409 | (3) |
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You gotta problem with grammar? |
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Pairs of Trouble: Complicated Verbs |
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Three for the Road: Other Common Errors |
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422 | (1) |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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424 | (2) |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 23 Quiz |
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Chapter 24 Writing Stylish Sentences |
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Choosing the correct tense |
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Sprucing Up Boring Sentences with Clauses and Verbals |
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Mixing It Up: Changing Sentence Patterns and Length |
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Going long or cutting it short |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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442 | (3) |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 24 Quiz |
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445 | (2) |
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Answers to Chapter 24 Quiz |
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Chapter 25 Adapting Your Style to Electronic Media |
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Hitting the Screen with Formal or Informal Language |
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Communicating Clearly in Texts, Tweets, and Posts |
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Dropping punctuation and capital letters |
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Emailing Your Way to Good Grammar |
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458 | (1) |
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Surveying presentation slides |
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Autocorrect and Other Error Magnets |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 25 Quiz |
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Chapter 26 Writing at School and on the Job |
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A Is for Accomplished: Writing at School |
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Essays and research papers |
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Get to Work: Writing on the Job |
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Practice Questions Answers and Explanations |
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Whaddya Know? Chapter 26 Quiz |
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