Table of Contents

• Pronouns: Form Is Everything Test yourself 1
• The How-Tos of Who and Whom Test yourself 2
• Adjective/Adverb Aptitude Test yourself 3
• The Elusive Dangling Modifier Test yourself 4
• Excuse Me, Have You Misplaced Your Modifier? Test yourself 5
• Dubious Agreement Test yourself 6
• More Dubious Agreement Test yourself 7
• The Grammar of Numbers Test yourself 8
• Hypothetically Speaking: The Subjunctive Test yourself 9
• Grammar Myths

• Commas That Count: Necessary Commas Test yourself 1
• Commas That Clutter: Unnecessary Commas Test yourself 2
• Pointing the Way: Colons and Semicolons Test yourself 3
• Hyphens and Dashes—The Long and the Short of It Test yourself 4
• Apostroph-Ease Test yourself 5
• Coping with Quotation Marks Test yourself 6
• Comashes and Interro-what’s‽: Digressions in Punctuation
• Closing In and Trailing Off: Further Digressions in Punctuation Test yourself 8
• Getting to the Point with Bullets
• The Ups and Downs of Capitalization Test yourself 10
• Punctuation Myths

• That and Which: Which Is Which? Test yourself 1
• Verbifying
• Evolving Usage: Deplorable to Acceptable
• Words on the Street
• Other Words on the Street
• Gender-Neutral Writing: The Pronoun Problem Test yourself 6 new
• Gender-Neutral Writing: Questions of Usage Test yourself 7
• Usage Myths

• To Be or Not to Be: Maintaining Sentence Unity Test yourself 1
• Pronoun Management 101 Test yourself 2
• Parallelism: Writing with Repetition and Rhythm Test yourself 3
• Controlling Emphasis: Coordination and Subordination Test yourself 4
• Some Secrets of Syntax
• More Secrets of Syntax
• Passive Voice: Forever Bad?
• Putting It Plainly
• Putting It (Even More) Plainly
• Boost Your eQ
• Style Myths

• English Then and Now
• Questions from the Inbox Test yourself 2
• More Questions from the Inbox Test yourself 3
• New Questions from the Inbox Test yourself 4
• Further Questions from the Inbox Test yourself 5

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