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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 | |