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No Uncertain Terms | |
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Are You Grammarphobic? | |
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How Can You Tell If You're Grammarphobic? | |
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Word Power | |
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Term Limits | |
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What Is Style? | |
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A Civil Tongue: Standards for Effective Communication | |
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Conan the Grammarian | |
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Sweet Dreams Aren't Made of These | |
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Perversity Rules | |
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Personal Writing Inventory | |
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Mission Possible | |
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Under the Grammar Hammer | |
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Parts of Speech: Coming to Terms | |
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Nouns: Prime-Time Players | |
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Verbs: All the Right Moves | |
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Conjunctions: The Ties That Bind | |
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Prepositions: Good Things Come in Small Packages | |
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Terms of Endearment: More Parts of Speech | |
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Adjectives: Happy Little Clouds | |
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Adverbs: Who Ya Gonna Call? | |
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Pronouns: Pinch Hitters | |
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Interjections: Zap! Pow! Wow! | |
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Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Take a Shower | |
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Altered States: Verbs | |
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Shape Shifters | |
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Verb Tense: Nothing a Little Prozac Wouldn't Cure | |
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All Tensed Up: Using Verb Tense Correctly | |
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Person, Number, and Mood | |
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Active and Passive Voice: A Mistake Has Been Made | |
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Woe Is I: Pronouns and Case | |
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Why Can't a Pronoun Be More Like a Noun? | |
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Head Case: The Three Cases | |
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The Rules | |
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Who Versus Whom (or Should I Just Shoot Myself Now?) | |
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Multiple-Vehicle Wrecks: Pronoun Reference | |
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How's That Again? | |
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It Just Proves There's Someone for Everyone | |
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Location, Location, Location: Placement of Pronouns | |
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A Match Made in Writer's Heaven | |
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How to Write and Speak Good: Adjectives Versus Adverbs | |
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They Walk Alike, They Talk Alike: You Could Lose Your Mind | |
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Three Degrees of Separation | |
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Tough Sledding: Using Adjectives After Linking Verbs | |
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A Note on Adjectives and Adverbs for Non-Native Speakers | |
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Don't Use No Double Negatives | |
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Reaching an Agreement: Matching Sentence Parts | |
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Anyone Got a Match? | |
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Collective Nouns | |
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Indefinite Pronouns | |
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Walk This Way | |
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Agree to Disagree | |
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Nose to the Grindstone | |
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Dazed and Confused: Common Usage Dilemmas | |
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Dangling Modifiers: Counterintelligence | |
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Misplaced Modifiers: Lost and Found | |
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Mixed Metaphors: A Dollar Late and a Day Short | |
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Split Infinitives: To Boldly Go Where Everyone Else Goes | |
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The Good, the Bad, the Ugly | |
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Usage and Abusage | |
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Phrases: Prime-Time Players | |
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Phrases of the Moon | |
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Prepositional Phrases: The Big Daddy of Phrases | |
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Appositives: Something More for Your Money | |
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Verbal Phrases: Talk Soup | |
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Clauses: Kickin' It Up a Notch | |
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Clauses: Phrases on Steroids | |
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Subordinating Conjunctions Link 'Em Together | |
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Adverb Clauses: Hot Shots | |
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Adjective Clauses: Paint by Numbers | |
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Noun Clauses: What's in a Name? | |
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Connect the Dots | |
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Sentence and Sensibility | |
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I Know It When I See It: The Sentence | |
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Sentence Structure: The Fab Four | |
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Sentence Functions: The Four Tops | |
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Alley Oops | |
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Coordination and Subordination: What to Say When the Cops Come | |
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Coordination: All the Right Moves | |
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Subordination: What I Did for Love | |
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Duke It Out: Coordination Versus Subordination | |
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Parallel Structure: Trod the Straight and Narrow | |
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Tools of the Trade | |
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The Writer's Tools: Round Up the Usual Suspects | |
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Pencil Pusher | |
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Using the Dictionary: You Could Look It Up | |
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Electronic Grammar Software: Help Is Only a Button Away | |
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The Thesaurus: War of the Words | |
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Punctuation: Commas Are Our Friends | |
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Punctuation Matters | |
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Show Me the Money | |
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Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Mark: The End of the Line | |
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The Comma: A Major Player | |
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Constant Commas | |
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The Semicolon: Love Child of the Comma and the Period | |
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The Colon: What a Party Animal | |
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Semi-Tough | |
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Quotation Marks: Quote/Unquote | |
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Not Separated at Birth: The Dash and the Hyphen (and Let's Add the Ellipsis for Fun) | |
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Parentheses and Brackets: Bosom Buddies | |
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Slash and Burn | |
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Apostrophes | |
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Capitalization and Abbreviations: Go to the Head of the Class | |
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Capitalization: A Capital Idea | |
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Abbreviations: Good Things Come in Small Packages | |
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Guide to Spelling: Hooked on Phonics | |
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Bee a Good Speller | |
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If U Cn Reed This | |
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Quick and Dirty Tricks of the Trade | |
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Attaching Prefixes and Suffixes: Bits and Pieces | |
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Contractions: Suck It In | |
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Follow the Rules! Spelling Rules | |
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See and Say | |
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Spelling Demons | |
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Style: All the Write Stuff | |
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What Is Style, and How Do I Get Some? | |
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Style: Write On! | |
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The 3C's: Consistency, Coherence, Clarity | |
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I'll Have What's on His Plate | |
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Lie Like a Rug | |
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In Style | |
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Audience: People Who Need People | |
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Model Behavior | |
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Four Play | |
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Stylish Sentences | |
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Flexible Flyers | |
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Punctuation and Style: Little Things Matter a Lot | |
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Conciseness: The Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Slash and Burn | |
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Thrift, Thrift, Thrift | |
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Diction: Find the Right Word, Not Its First Cousin | |
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Diction: Proper Words in Proper Places | |
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Tone-on-Tone | |
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Ten Distinctions Worth Making (or at Least Worth Being Able to Make!) | |
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Twenty-Five Headaches | |
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Homophones: Give Piece a Chance | |
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Don't Go There: Words and Expressions to Avoid | |
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Sexist Language: Political Roadkill | |
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Top of Your Game | |
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Spin Doctors | |
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The Cliche Expert | |
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In Your Write Mind | |
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Business Writing: Write Angles | |
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Letter Perfect | |
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Resumes and Cover Letters: Get on the Fast Track | |
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Bread-and-Butter Notes | |
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Good News, Bad News | |
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Personal Writing: In Your Write Mind | |
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Friendly Letters: My Baby, She Wrote Me a Letter | |
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B & B Revisited | |
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Letters of Opinion | |
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E-Mail: Instant Gratification | |
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Appendixes | |
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Glossary | |
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Model Documents | |
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Guide to Grammar and Usage | |
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Index | |