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| The Sentence | |
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| The Sentence Defined | |
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| Kinds of Sentences | |
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| Parts of Speech | |
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| Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections | |
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| Nouns | |
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| Major Classes of Nouns. Common nouns, proper nouns, collective nouns | |
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| Plural Nouns | |
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| Forming the plural of nouns, Words with irregular plurals, Nouns always in plural form, Plural forms with singular meaning | |
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| Nouns and the Possessive Form | |
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| Singular possessive, Plural possessive | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Personal Pronouns | |
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| Pronoun agreement in person, number, and gender | |
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| Case forms of personal pronouns | |
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| Indefinite Pronouns | |
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| Relative Pronouns | |
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| Demonstrative Pronouns | |
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| Possessive Pronouns | |
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| Interrogative Pronouns | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Uses of Verbs | |
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| Verbs make statements, Verbs ask questions, Verbs give commands | |
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| Helping Verbs and Linking Verbs | |
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| Uses of helping verbs, Verb separations, Use of linking verbs with predicate nouns, pronouns, and adjectives | |
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| Verb Agreement with Subject | |
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| Forms of the Verb Be, Forms of the Verb Have, Plural form with compound subjects | |
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| Singular subjects and plural modifiers, Verb agreement with indefinite pronouns, Verb agreement with There, Verb agreement with Or, Verb agreement with collective nouns | |
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| The Time of Verbs | |
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| Present Tense | |
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| Verbs in the present tense, The verb Be in the present tense, The verb Have in the present tense, The verb Do in the present tense | |
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| Past Tense | |
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| Verbs in the past tense, The verb Be in the past tense, The verb Have in the past tense | |
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| Future Tense | |
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| Perfect Tenses | |
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| Present perfect tense, Past perfect tense, Future perfect tense | |
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| Conjugation of Verbs | |
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| Conjugation of the verb Visit | |
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| Principal parts of irregular verbs | |
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| Misused Verbs or Commonly Misused Verbs | |
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| Misused Verbs | |
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| Lie and Lay; Sit and Set | |
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| Less Troublesome Verbs | |
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| Shall, Should, Will, and Would; May, Might, Can, and Could; Leave and Let; Teach and Learn; Borrow and Lend; Bring, Take, and Fetch; Rise and Raise | |
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| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Descriptive Adjectives, Proper Adjectives, Definite and Indefinite Adjectives, Possessive Adjectives, Demonstrative Adjectives, Nouns and Verbs Used as Adjectives, Compound Adjectives | |
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| Degrees of Comparison | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Adverbs of Time, Adverbs of Place, Adverbs of Manner, Adverbs of Degree, Interrogative Adverbs, Most Frequently Used Adverbs | |
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| Confusing Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Prepositions and Conjunctions | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Most Frequently Used Prepositions, Uses of the Prepositional Phrase 28 Conjunctions | |
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| Coordinating Conjunctions, Subordinating Conjunctions, Correlative Conjunctions | |
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| Phrases and Clauses | |
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| Phrases | |
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| Prepositional Phrases, Infinitive Phrases, Participial Phrases | |
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| Clauses | |
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| Independent Clauses, Dependent Clauses | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| The Period, The Question Mark, The Exclamation Point | |
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| The Comma | |
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| The Semicolon, The Colon, The Dash | |
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| Parentheses, The Apostrophe, Quotation Marks | |
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| Number Expression and Capitalization | |
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| Expression of Numbers | |
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| Capital Letters | |
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| Word Blunders | |
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| Who's and Whose, It's and Its, There, Their, and They're, In and Into, Beside and Besides, To, Too, and Two, Then, and Than, Between and Among, Like and As, As-As, So-As | |
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| Speech Duds | |
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| Spelling | |
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| Vocabulary Practice | |
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| Proofreading | |
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| Writing Resources | |
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| Application Practice Scoring Summary | |
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| Answers to Tryout Exercises | |
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| Index | |