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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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The Structure of Sentences | |
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A Review of Words and Phrases | |
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Chapter Preview | |
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Form Classes | |
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Nouns and Verbs | |
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The Noun Phrase | |
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The Verb Phrase | |
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NP + VP = S | |
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Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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Prepositional Phrases | |
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Key Terms | |
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Sentence Patterns | |
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Chapter Preview | |
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Rhetorical Effects | |
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The Be Patterns | |
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The Linking Verb Pattern | |
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The Intransitive Verb Pattern | |
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The Basic Transitive Verb Pattern | |
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Transitive Patterns with Two Complements | |
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Sentence Pattern Summary | |
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The Optional Adverbial | |
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Questions and Commands | |
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Punctuation and the Sentence Patterns | |
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Basic Patterns in Prose | |
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The Short Paragraph | |
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Key Terms | |
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Rhetorical Reminders | |
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Punctuation Reminder | |
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Our Versatile Verbs | |
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Chapter Preview | |
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The Expanded Verb | |
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Using the Expanded Verbs | |
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Special Uses of the Present Tense | |
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Other Auxiliaries | |
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Do-Support | |
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Modal Auxiliaries | |
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The Passive Voice | |
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Forms of the Passive Voice | |
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Using the Passive Voice | |
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The Obscure Agent | |
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Well-Chosen Verbs: Showing, Not Telling | |
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Key Terms | |
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Rhetorical Reminders | |
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Coordination and Subordination | |
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Chapter Preview | |
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Coordination Within the Sentence | |
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Parallel Structure | |
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Coordination of the Series | |
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Climax | |
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Coordination with Correlative Conjunctions | |
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Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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Compound Sentences | |
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Conjunctive Adverbs and Transitional Phrases | |
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Compound Sentences with Semicolons | |
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Compound Sentences with Colons | |
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Punctuation Pitfalls | |
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The Compound Sentence: Punctuation Review | |
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Subordination: The Dependent Clauses | |
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Revising Compound Structures | |
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Key Terms | |
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Rhetorical Reminders | |
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Punctuation Reminders | |
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Controlling the Message | |
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Cohesion | |
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Chapter Preview | |
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Reader Expectation | |
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Repetition | |
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The Known-New Contract | |
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The Role of Pronouns | |
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Personal Pronouns | |
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Demonstrative Pronouns | |
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The Role of the Passive Voice | |
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Other Sentence Inversions | |
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Parallelism | |
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Repetition Versus Redundancy | |
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Key Terms | |
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Rhetorical Reminders | |
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Sentence Rhythm | |
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Chapter Preview | |
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Your Sense of Rhythm | |
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End Focus | |
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Controlling Rhythm | |
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The It-Cleft | |
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The What-Cleft | |
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The There-Transformation | |
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Rhythm and the Comma | |
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Power Words | |
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Correlative Conjunctions | |
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Adverbials of Emphasis | |
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The Common Only | |
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Key Terms | |
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Rhetorical Reminders | |
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Punctuation Reminder | |
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The Writer's Voice | |
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Chapter Preview | |
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Tone | |
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Diction | |
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Metaphor | |
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Verbs and Formality | |
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Nominalized Verbs and Abstract Subjects | |
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Contractions | |
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Metadiscourse | |
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Point of View | |
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Key Terms | |
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Rhetorical Reminders | |
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Punctuation Reminders | |
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Making Choices: Form and Function | |
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Choosing Adverbials | |
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Chapter Preview | |
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The Movable Adverbials | |
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Adverbs | |
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Prepositional Phrases | |
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The Proliferating Prepositional Phrase | |
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Noun Phrases | |
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Verb Phrases | |
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Dependent Clauses | |
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Punctuation of Adverbial Clauses | |
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The Movability of Adverbial Clauses | |
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The Because-Clause Myth | |
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The Elliptical Adverbial Clause | |
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Key Terms | |
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Rhetorical Reminders | |
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Punctuation Reminders | |
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Choosing Adjectivals | |
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Chapter Preview | |
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The Noun Phrase | |
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Preheadword Modifiers | |
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Determiners | |
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Adjectives and Nouns | |
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Modifier Noun Proliferation | |
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Postheadword Modifiers | |
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Prepositional Phrases | |
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Adjective Phrases | |
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Participial Phrases | |
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The Prenoun Participle | |
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The Movable Participial Phrase | |
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The Dangling Participle | |
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Relative Clauses | |
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The Relatives | |
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The Broad-Reference Clause | |
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Punctuation of Phrases and Clauses | |
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A Punctuation Rule Revisited | |
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Key Terms | |
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Rhetorical Reminders | |
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Punctuation Reminders | |
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Choosing Nominals | |
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Chapter Preview | |
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Appositives | |
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Colons and Dashes with Appositives | |
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Avoiding Punctuation Errors | |
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The Sentence Appositive | |
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Nominal Verb Phrases | |
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Gerunds | |
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The Dangling Gerund | |
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The Subject of the Gerund | |
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Infinitives | |
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Nominal Clauses | |
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Nominals as Delayed Subjects | |
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Key Terms | |
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Rhetorical Reminders | |
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Punctuation Reminders | |
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Other Stylistic Variations | |
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Chapter Preview | |
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Style | |
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Absolute Phrases | |
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The Coordinate Series | |
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Repetition | |
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Word-Order Variation | |
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Ellipsis | |
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Antithesis | |
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The Deliberate Fragment | |
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Key Terms | |
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Rhetorical Reminder | |
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Punctuation Reminders | |
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Your Way with Words | |
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Words and Word Classes | |
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Chapter Preview | |
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Your Lexicon | |
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Parts of Speech | |
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The Form Classes | |
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Nouns | |
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Plural-Only Forms | |
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Collective Nouns | |
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Proper Nouns | |
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Verbs | |
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Adjectives | |
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Adverbs | |
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Derivational Affixes | |
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The Structure Classes | |
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Determiners | |
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Auxiliaries | |
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Qualifiers | |
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Prepositions | |
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Particles | |
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Conjunctions | |
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Pronouns | |
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Personal Pronouns | |
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The Missing Pronoun | |
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Case Errors | |
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The Unwanted Apostrophe | |
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The Ambiguous Antecedent | |
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Reflexive Pronouns | |
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Intensive Pronouns | |
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Reciprocal Pronouns | |
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Demonstrative Pronouns | |
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Indefinite Pronouns | |
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The Everyone/Their Issue | |
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Key Terms | |
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Rhetorical Reminders | |
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Punctuation Reminders | |
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Punctuation | |
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Punctuation: Its Purposes, Its Hierarchy, and Its Rhetorical Effects | |
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Chapter Preview | |
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The Purposes of Punctuation Marks | |
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Syntax | |
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Prosody | |
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Semantics | |
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The Hierarchy of Punctuation | |
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The Rhetorical Effects of Punctuation | |
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Key Terms | |
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Glossary of Punctuation | |
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Glossary of Terms | |
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Bibliography | |
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Answers to the Exercises | |
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Index | |