| Introduction...Celebrate Basic Grammar & Usage Skills |
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Skills Checklist for Grammar & Usage |
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| SKILLS EXERCISES |
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Surf's Up!..(Kinds of Sentences) |
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One of Each...(Subjects and Predicates) |
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S.O.S....(Fragments and Run-On Sentences) |
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What's for Lunch?...(Parts of Speech) |
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A-Maze-ing Possibilities...(Parts of Speech, Kinds of Sentences) |
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Two by the Sea...(Common and Proper Nouns) |
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See You at the Club...(Singular and Plural Nouns) |
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Seashore Snapshots...(Possessive Nouns) |
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Pick a Pronoun...(Kinds of Pronouns) |
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The Agreeable Pronoun...(Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement) |
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Who's Who?...(Use of Who/Whom, Who's/Whose) |
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Tense Times...(Verb Tenses, Active and Passive Verbs) |
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Wild about Verbs...(Verbs of Action and Being) |
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Fin, Fan, Fun...(Irregular Verbs) |
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Seaside Scenes...(Transitive and Intransitive Verbs) |
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Object Overload...(Direct and Indirect Objects) |
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Troublesome Verbs...(Special Verbs) |
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Agree or Disagree...(Subject-Verb Agreement) |
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``Add'' Verbs...(Adverbs) |
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Fast, Faster, Fastest...(Comparatives and Superlatives) |
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No Dangling, Please!...(Dangling Modifiers) |
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A Double Negative Is a No-No!...(Correct Use of Negatives) |
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Positions, Please!...(Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases) |
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A Whale of a Tale...(Participles and Participial Phrases) |
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Juggling Gerunds...(Gerunds and Gerund Phrases) |
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To Swim Is to Survive...(Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases) |
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Loners and Leaners...(Independent and Dependent Clauses) |
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Clause Caught in Claws?...(Noun, Adjective, and Adverb Clauses) |
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Cool or Obtuse?...(Capitalization for Proper Nouns and Adjectives) |
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Clearly Cloudy...(Capitalization and Punctuation in Letters and Addresses) |
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Title-Wise...(Capitalization and Punctuation in Titles) |
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Punctuation Repair...(Punctuation Review) |
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A Perfect Day for Diving...(Proofreaders' Marks---Punctuation and Capitalization) |
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Lost in the Waves...(Comma Use) |
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Quotables...(Punctuating Quotations in Dialogue) |
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Colon & Company...(Punctuation---Colons and Semicolons) |
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Brilliant Devices...(Punctuation---Dash, Hyphen, Parentheses) |
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Sailors' Nots...(Contractions) |
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| APPENDIX |
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Capitalization and Punctuation Guide |
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Grammar & Usage Skills Test |
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| Answers |
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