| Jane Straus has created the popular Web site www.Grammarbook.com, which offers additional self-scoring, downloadable quizzes, video lessons, and a weekly online newsletter full of helpful tips. Jane is also a personal life coach and the author of Enough Is Enough! from Jossey-Bass. She keynotes at educational conferences and workshops, writes articles for publication, and appears frequently on TV and radio for her expertise in communications, relationships, and lifestyle enhancement. |
| Acknowledgments About the Author Foreword by Mignon Fogarty (Grammar Girl) Introduction Grammar Finding Subjects and Verbs Finding verbs Using verbs to find subjects You as an understood subject Multiple subjects and verbs in a sentence Clauses, strong and weak Subject and Verb Agreement Singular vs. plural verbs With or and nor With either and neither With conjunctions such as and and but With interrupting expressions With pronouns as subjects such as each, everyone, and anybody With portions such as percent, fraction, part, some, all, and none With here and there With sums of money With who, that, and which With collective nouns Pronouns Subject Case (Nominative): I, you, he, she, it, we, they Object Case (Objective): me, you, him, her, it, us, them Correct use of pronouns by finding clauses Following than or as Possessive case: mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs, its Its vs. it's Using possessive case with gerunds Reflexives: the self pronouns Who vs. Whom Whoever vs. Whomever That vs. Which Adjectives and Adverbs Adjectives modifying nouns and pronouns Adverbs modifying verbs, adjectives, and adverbs: Answerin~ When to add -ly Sense verbs: taste, smell, look, and feel Good vs. well Comparisons such as -er vs. -est and more vs. most This, that, these, and those Than vs. then Problems with Prepositions Ending a sentence with a preposition Avoiding extra prepositions With dates Of vs. have Between vs. among In vs. into Like vs. as Effective Writing Concrete vs. vague language Active vs. passive voice Clumsy construction such as there is or it was Double negatives Similar grammatical form Misplaced and dangling modifiers Fragments 2 Confusing Words and Homonyms Advice vs. advice Affect vs. effect …… 3 Punctuation 4 Csapitalization 5 Writing Numbers 6 Quizzes 7 Abeswers ti Qyuzzes |
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