Introduction 1
Part 1 The Names of Things 13
A Nouns 15
B Adjectives 19
C Verbs 23
Tense 23
Principal Parts 28
D Adverbs 30
E Pronouns 33
Personal Pronouns 33
Mirror Pronouns 37
Relative Pronouns 38
Question Pronouns 41
Pointing Pronouns 41
Indefinite Pronouns 42
F Prepositions 45
G Conjunctions 48
Coordinating Conjunctions 49
Correlative Conjunctions 49
Subordinating Conjunctions 50
H Interjections 52
I Articles 53
Summary 54
Batting Practice Part 1 58
Part 2 The Sentence 67
A The Subject 68
B The Predicate 71
C Predicate: The Sequel 73
The Direct Object 74
The Indirect Object 75
D Phrases 76
Prepositional Phrases 76
Verbals 78
Infinitive Phrases 78
Gerund Phrases 80
Participial Phrases 81
E Clauses 83
Noun Clauses 84
Adjective Clauses 85
Adverb Clauses 86
Summary 88
Part 3 Putting It All Together 91
A Agreement 92
Subject-Verb Agreement 93
Pronoun Agreement 97
B Parallel Construction 101
C Misplaced Modifiers 107
D Faulty Comparison 112
E Idioms 116
F Diction 124
G Redundancy 134
H Voice And Mood 135
I Gender-Neutral Writing 137
Summary 140
Batting Practice, Part 3 141
Part 4 Punctuation 147
A The Period 149
B The Question Mark 150
C The Exclamation Point 151
D The Comma 152
E The Semicolon 158
F The Colon 159
G Parentheses 160
H The Dash 161
I The Apostrophe 162
J The Hyphen 164
K Quotation Marks 165
Part 5 Commonly-Asked Questions and Answers 167
Part 6 7 Easy Ways to Look Bad 175
Part 7 Glossary 179
Part 8 The World Series 189
Answer Key 219