Writing Effective Sentences

Preface to the Instructor. Preface to the Student. I. UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 1. Basic English Grammar and the Sentence. 2. Nouns and Pronouns. 3. Verbs. 4. Adjectives and Adverbs. 5. Conjunctions. 6. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases. 7. Verbals and Verbal Phrases. 8. Subordinating Conjunctions, Relative Pronouns, and Subordinate Clauses. 9. Types and Classes of Sentences. II. WRITING UNIFIED AND COHERENT SENTENCES. 10. Fragments and Run-on Sentences. 11. Agreement of Subject and Predicate. 12. Pronoun Case. 13. Agreement Of Pronoun And Antecedent. 14. Vague, General, And Unclear Pronoun Reference. 15. Misplaced And Dangling Modifiers. 16. Parallel Structure. 17. Shifts In Person, Number, And Tense. III. PUNCTUATING SENTENCES EFFECTIVELY. 18. End Marks, Dash, Parentheses, And Quotation Marks. 19. Comma. 20. Semicolon and Colon. IV. WRITING MECHANICALLY CORRECT SENTENCES. 21. Capital Letters, Apostrophes, And Underlining. V. Becoming a Better Speller. 22. Strategies For Improving Spelling. Index.