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| Speech vs. Writing | |
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| The Most Important Technology | |
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| Writing vs. Pictures | |
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| Writing vs. Speech | |
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| Sender's Efficiency vs. Recipient's Understanding | |
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| The Differences between Speaking and Writing | |
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| Why Writing Is Harder Than Speaking | |
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| The Major Parts of Speech What's a Part of Speech? | |
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| Content Words Tests for Identification | |
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| Difficult Cases Application to Writing | |
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| The Minor Parts of Speech Some Selected Closed Classes | |
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| Application to Writing | |
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| Phrases: The Art of Chunking What Are Phrases? | |
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| Classifying Phrases Heads Clauses | |
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| More on Phrases | |
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| Sentence Diagrams Counting Phrases | |
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| Diagramming Infinitive Verb Phrases and Possessive Noun Phrases | |
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| Diagramming Present Participle Verb Phrases | |
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| Diagramming Modal Phrases | |
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| Diagramming Subordinate Clauses | |
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| The Challenges of Phrase Boundaries | |
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| Application to Writing | |
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| Grammatical Roles: Distinguishing Identical Elements | |
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| Verb-Phrase Patterns | |
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| Identification Rules for Grammatical Roles | |
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| Application to Writing | |
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| Adverbials and Other Elements in the Clause | |
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| The Other Elements: Examples of Grammatical Necessity Adverbials Application to Writing | |
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| Passive? Tense? What's on That Verb? | |
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| Tense More than Temporal Information Tense-Aspect Forms | |
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| How to Tell Them Apart Tense in Writing Passives | |
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| Changing Voice | |
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| The Interaction of Tense with Voice Application to Writing Postscript | |
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| Putting Words Together: Coordination, Subordination, and Parallelism | |
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| Coordination | |
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| Punctuation for Coordination | |
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| Subordination | |
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| Punctuation for Subordinate Clauses | |
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| Parallelism | |
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| Conceptual Parallelism | |
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| What's the Problem with Parallelism Errors? | |
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| A Note on Punctuation in Parallel Structures Application to Writing | |
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| A Note on Some Marks of Punctuation | |
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| The System of Modifiers Adverbials Adjectivals Absolute Phrases | |
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| The Structure of Sentences with Modifiers | |
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| The Placement of Modifiers | |
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| Structuring Information in Writing Intonation | |
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| New and Old Information Vague Errors Reordering the Sentence Placement of Modifiers | |
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| Word Choice and Intonation | |
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| Word Choices The Dictionary vs. the Lexicon | |
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| Commonly Confused Words | |
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| English Spelling | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement Respect in Language | |
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| Gender-Neutral Language | |
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| The Written Standard and the Oral Varieties of English Linguistic Diversity | |
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| The System of Black English | |
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| The System of Appalachian English Standard | |
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| English and Dialects Descriptive vs. Prescriptive | |
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| Appendix: The Grammatical Analysis of Literature | |
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| Metrical Analysis | |
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| Grammatical Analysis of Poetry | |
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| Grammatical Analysis of Prose | |