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English Grammar
Workbook
FOR
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DUMmIES
by Geraldine Woods
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction.................................................................................1
Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics....................7
Chapter 1: Placing the Proper Verb in the Proper Place .........................................................................9
Chapter 2: Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Pairing Subjects and Verbs Correctly...........................23
Chapter 3: Who Is She, and What Is It? The Lowdown on Pronouns...................................................35
Chapter 4: Finishing What You Start: plete Sentences.....................................................49
Part II: Mastering Mechanics......................................................65
Chapter 5: ma Sense........................................................................................................67
Chapter 6: Made You Look! Punctuation Marks That Demand Attention...........................................81
Chapter 7: One Small Mark, a Whole New Meaning: Apostrophes ......................................................91
Chapter 8: “Let Me Speak!“ Quotation Marks .......................................................................................101
Chapter 9: Hitting the Big Time: Capital Letters ..................................................................................113
Part III: The Pickier Points of Correct Verb and Pronoun Use .......125
Chapter 10: The Case of It (And Other Pronouns)...............................................................................127
Chapter 11: Choosing the Best Pronoun for a Tricky Sentence .........................................................141
Chapter 12: Traveling in Time: Tricky Verb-Tense Situations.............................................................155
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