| Introduction.
Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics.
Chapter 1: Placing the Proper Verb in the Proper Place.
Chapter 2: Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Pairing Subjects and Verbs Correctly.
Chapter 3: Who Is She, and What Is It? The Lowdown on Pronouns.
Chapter4: Finishing What You Start: Writing Complete Sentences.
Part II: Mastering Mechanics.
Chapter 5: Exercising Comma Sense.
Chapter 6: Made You Look! Punctuation Marks That Demand Attention.
Chapter 7: One Small Mark, a Whole New Meaning: Apostrophes.
Chapter 8: "Let Me Speak!" Quotation Marks.
Chapter 9: Hitting the Big Time: Capital Letters.
Part III: The Pickier Points of Correct Verb and Pronoun Use.
Chapter 10: The Case Of It (And Other Pronouns).
Chapter 11: Choosing the Best Pronoun for a Tricky Sentence.
Chapter 12: Traveling in Time: Tricky Verb-Tense Situations.
Chapter 13: Are You and Your Verbs in the Right Mood?
Part IV: All You Need to Know about Descriptions and Comparisons.
Chapter 14: Writing Good or Well: Adjectives and Adverbs.
Chapter 15: Going on Location: Placing Descriptions Correctly.
Chapter 16: For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons.
Chapter 17: Appleas and Oranges: I,proper Comparisons.
Part V: Writing with Style.
Chapter 18: Practicing Parallel Structure.
Chapter 19: Spicing Up and Trimming Down Your Sentences.
Chapter 20: Steering Clear of Tricky Word Traps.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 21: Then Overcorrections.
Chapter 22: Ten Errors to Avoid at All Cost.
Appendix: Grabbing Grammar Goofs.
Index.
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