| Acknowledgements |
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| Foreword |
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| Introduction |
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What you need to know about word classes |
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4 | (2) |
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What you need to know about nouns |
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6 | (2) |
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What you need to know about verbs and verb forms |
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8 | (2) |
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What you need to know about modal verbs |
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10 | (2) |
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What you need to know about adjectives |
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12 | (2) |
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What you need to know about adverbs |
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14 | (2) |
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What you need to know about prepositions |
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16 | (2) |
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What you need to know about determiners |
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18 | (2) |
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What you need to know about pronouns |
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20 | (2) |
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What you need to know about conjunctions |
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22 | (2) |
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Phrases and clauses: the building blocks of sentences |
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What you need to know about phrases and clauses |
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24 | (2) |
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What you need to know about noun phrases |
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26 | (2) |
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What you need to know about preposition phrases |
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28 | (2) |
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What you need to know about adverbials |
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30 | (2) |
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What you need to know about subject and object |
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32 | (2) |
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What you need to know about coordinated clauses |
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34 | (2) |
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What you need to know about subordinate clauses |
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36 | (2) |
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What you need to know about relative clauses |
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38 | (2) |
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What you need to know about non-finite clauses |
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40 | (2) |
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Sentences: their forms and functions |
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What you need to know about sentence forms and functions |
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42 | (2) |
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What you need to know about statements |
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44 | (2) |
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What you need to know about questions |
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46 | (2) |
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What you need to know about commands |
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48 | (2) |
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What you need to know about exclamations |
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50 | (2) |
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Cohesion: making connections within and across a text |
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What you need to know about cohesion |
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52 | (2) |
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What you need to know about tense |
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54 | (2) |
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Levels of formality: writing for different purposes and audiences |
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What you need to know about levels of formality |
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56 | (2) |
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What you need to know about the active and the passive voice |
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58 | (2) |
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What you need to know about the subjunctive |
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60 | (2) |
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What you need to know about Standard English |
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62 | (2) |
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What you need to know about writing in an informal style |
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64 | (2) |
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What you need to know about writing in a formal style |
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66 | (2) |
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What you need to know about punctuation |
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68 | (2) |
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What you need to know about capital letters |
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70 | (2) |
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What you need to know about sentence demarcation |
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72 | (2) |
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What you need to know about apostrophes |
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74 | (2) |
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What you need to know about commas |
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76 | (4) |
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What you need to know about punctuation for parenthesis |
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80 | (2) |
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What you need to know about semi-colons |
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82 | (2) |
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What you need to know about colons |
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84 | (2) |
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What you need to know about speech punctuation |
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86 | (2) |
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What you need to know about bullet points |
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88 | (2) |
| Glossary of grammatical terms |
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90 | (3) |
| Further reading |
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