المحتويات / النص
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- Part I. IMPROVING IMMEDIATELY
- Chapter 1. 25 Ways to Better Writing Immediately
- Chapter 2. Are These Distinctions Worth Making?
- Chapter 3. Language Lapses
- Chapter 4. It's Nobody's Guess
- Chapter 5. The Trouble with "Only"
- Chapter 6. One Potato, Two Potatoes: Forming plurals and possessives from words ending in ch, sh, x, s, sis, ss, zz, y, and o
- Chapter 7. Excising the Excessive
- Part II. BUILDING SENTENCES
- Chapter 8. Nouns
- Chapter 9. Pronouns
- Chapter 10. Noun-Pronoun Agreement
- Chapter 11. Verbs and Verbals
- Chapter 12. Subject-Verb Agreement
- Chapter 13. Adjectives
- Chapter 14. Adverbs
- Chapter 15. Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
- Chapter 16. Prepositions
-Chapter 17. Conjunctions
- Chapter 18. Interjections
- Chapter 19. Sentences and Syntax
- Part III. PUNCTUATING
- Chapter 20. Periods
- Chapter 21. Question Marks
- Chapter 22. Exclamation Marks
- Chapter 23. Commas
- Chapter 24. Semicolons
- Chapter 25. Colons and Dashes
- Chapter 26. Parentheses and Brackets
- Chapter 27. Slashes and Hyphens
- Chapter 28. Apostrophes
- Chapter 29. Quotation Marks
- Chapter 30. Sensitivity in Language
- Part IV. QUICK REFERENCE Reference
1. Words Frequently Confused Reference
2. Words Frequently Misspelled Reference
3. Irregular Verbs Reference
4. Wordiness and Trite Expressions Reference
5. When to Use a Hyphen, One Word, or Two Words
Index
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