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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 | |