Getting Your Grammar, Punctuation, and Word Usage Right!
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Common grammar, punctuation, and word usage problems explained clearly! Easy-to-find, in alphabetical format! And an index too! Special expanded section for all those pesky comma rules!
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Partial Table of Contents:
Active or Passive Voice? Affect or Effect? Almost or Most? Already or All Ready? Alright or All Right? Among or Between? And, But, So: Can I Start a Sentence with Them? Anymore or Any More? As If or Like? Bring or Take? Comma or Semicolon? Commas: To Comma or Not to Comma? That Is the Question Continual or Continuous? Dates: How Do I Write Them? Disinterested or Uninterested? Everyone or Every One? Fractions: When and How Do I Spell Out? (no hyphen as a noun) I or Me? (We or Us?) If or Whether? Imply or Infer? It’s I or It’s Me? Lead or Led? Lend or Loan? Libel or Slander? Me or Myself? Much or Many? Parallel Construction: What Is It? Period or Semicolon? Possessives: Do I Have It Right? Precede or Proceed? Quotations Marks: Help!? Some Time or Sometimes Subjunctive Mood: What’s That? That, Which, or Who? Titles: How Do I Capitalize? Titles: Italics or Quotes? Toward or Towards? Who or Whom? Writing Tips. Need Some?
