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Preface | |
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Subjects, Verbs, and Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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The First Building Block Subjects | |
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Nouns | |
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Singular and Plural Nouns | |
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Types of Nouns | |
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Pronouns | |
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Subject Pronouns | |
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Indefinite Pronouns | |
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Identifying the Subject | |
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Simple and Compound Subjects | |
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Recognizing Subjects in Tricky Situations | |
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Subjects in Imperative Sentences | |
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Subjects as Distinct from Prepositional Phrases | |
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Subjects in Declarative Sentences with Here and There | |
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Subjects in Interrogative Sentences | |
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Sentences with Gerunds and Infinitives as Subjects | |
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Infinitives | |
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Chapter One Skills Review: Subjects | |
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The Second Building Block Verbs | |
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Action and Being Verbs | |
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Simple and Compound Verbs | |
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Verb Tenses | |
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The Simple Tense | |
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Simple Present | |
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Simple Past | |
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Simple Future | |
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The Perfect Tense | |
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Present Perfect | |
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Past Perfect | |
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Future Perfect | |
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The Progressive Tense | |
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Present Progressive | |
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Past Progressive | |
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Future Progressive | |
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The Perfect Progressive Tense | |
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Present Perfect Progressive | |
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Past Perfect Progressive | |
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Future Perfect Progressive | |
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Regular and Irregular Verbs | |
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Regular Verbs | |
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Tricky Situations with Regular Verbs | |
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Irregular Verbs | |
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Tricky Situations with Irregular Verbs | |
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Verb Tense Consistency | |
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Active and Passive Voice | |
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Chapter Two Skills Review: Verbs | |
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The Third Building Block Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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Rules for Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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Singular Subject Rules | |
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Plural Subject Rules | |
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Subject Agreement and Regular and Irregular Verbs | |
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Tricky Situations in Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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Sentences That Start with Prepositional Phrases | |
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Sentence Starting with Here, There, What, Where, and Why | |
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Sentences with Either/or, Neither/nor, and Or | |
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Sentences with Interrupters | |
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Chapter Three Skills Review: Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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Pronouns | |
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The Fourth Building Block Pronouns | |
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Pronoun Usage | |
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Subjective Case | |
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Objective Case | |
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Possessive Case | |
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Other Pronouns | |
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Who vs. Whom | |
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Demonstrative Pronouns | |
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Relative Pronouns | |
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Interrogative Pronouns | |
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Reflexive Pronouns | |
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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement | |
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Pronoun Agreement with Person | |
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Pronoun Agreement with Number | |
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Tricky Situations with Pronouns and Numbers | |
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Pronoun Agreement with Gender | |
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Chapter Four Skills Review: Pronouns | |
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Clauses and Kinds of Sentences | |
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The Fifth Building Block Clauses | |
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Clauses | |
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Types of Clauses | |
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Independent Clause: A Clause That Makes Sense on Its Own | |
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Dependent Clause: A Clause That Requires More Information to Make Complete Sense | |
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Chapter Five Skills Review: Clauses | |
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The Sixth Building Block Kinds of Sentences | |
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Simple Sentences | |
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Sentence Variety | |
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Joining Independent Clauses: Compound Sentences | |
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Coordinating Conjunctions | |
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Adverbial Conjunctions | |
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Semicolons | |
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Joining an Independent Clause with a Dependent Clause: Complex Sentences | |
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Subordinating Conjunctions | |
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Joining Multiple Independent and Dependent Clauses: Compound-Complex Sentences | |
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Chapter Six Skills Review 1: Kinds of Sentences | |
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Chapter Six Skills Review 2: Sentence Combining | |
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The Seventh Building Block Avoiding Common Sentence Errors | |
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Fragments | |
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Run-ons | |
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Comma Splices | |
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Chapter Seven Skills Review: Common Sentence Errors | |
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Descriptors, Modifiers, Parallelism | |
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The Eighth Building Block Adjectives and Adverbs as Modifiers | |
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Descriptive Modifiers | |
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Adjectives | |
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Adverbs | |
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Common Mistakes with Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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Comparative and Superlative Forms | |
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Regular Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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Irregular Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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Four More Tricky Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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Chapter Eight Skills Review: Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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The Ninth Building Block Using Modifiers Correctly | |
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Misplaced Modifiers | |
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Dangling Modifiers | |
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Chapter Nine Skills Review: Dangling or Misplaced Modifiers | |
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The Tenth Building Block Parallelism | |
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Parallelism | |
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Parallelism with Pairs | |
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Parallelism with Lists | |
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Parallelism in Comparisons (Than or As) | |
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Parallelism with Paired Expressions | |
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Chapter Ten Skills Review: Parallelism | |
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Punctuation | |
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The Eleventh Building Block Comma Use | |
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Commas Used to Separate | |
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Commas and Conjunctions | |
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Commas and Items in a List | |
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Commas and Introductory Expressions | |
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Commas to Enclose | |
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Commas and Interrupters | |
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Commas and Direct Address | |
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Commas with Dates and Addresses | |
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Chapter Eleven Skills Review: Commas | |
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The Twelfth Building Block Other Types of Punctuation | |
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Apostrophe | |
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Semicolon | |
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Colon: | |
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Dash - and Parenthesis () | |
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Hyphen - | |
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Quotation Marks " " | |
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Chapter Twelve Skills Review: Punctuation | |
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Appendices | |
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Parts of Speech | |
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Nouns | |
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Pronouns | |
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Verbs | |
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Adjectives | |
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Adverbs | |
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Prepositions | |
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Conjunctions | |
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Interjections | |
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Appendix A Skills Review: Identifying Parts of Speech | |
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Spelling | |
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Create Spelling Lists | |
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Learn the eilie rule | |
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Know Commonly Misspelled Words | |
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Know Commonly Confused Words | |
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Know Word Endings | |
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Appendix B Skills Review: Spelling | |
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English as a Second Language Concerns | |
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Nouns | |
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Articles | |
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Verbs | |
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Prepositions | |
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Appendix C Skills Review: ESL Concerns | |
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Index | |