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
• The Grammar of Numbers Test yourself 6
• Hypothetically Speaking: The Subjunctive Test yourself 7
• Grammar Myths

• Commas That Count: Necessary Commas Test yourself 8
• Commas That Clutter: Unnecessary Commas Test yourself 9
• Pointing the Way: Colons and Semicolons Test yourself 10
• Hyphens and Dashes—The Long and the Short of It Test yourself 11
• Apostroph-Ease Test yourself 12
• Coping with Quotation Marks Test yourself 13
• Punctuation Myths

• That and Which: Which Is Which? Test yourself 14
• Verbifying
• Evolving Usage: Deplorable to Acceptable
• Usage Myths

• To Be or Not to Be: Maintaining Sentence Unity Test yourself 15
• Pronoun Management 101 Test yourself 16
• Parallelism: Writing with Repetition and Rhythm Test yourself 17
• Putting It Plainly
• Putting It (Even More) Plainly
• Passive Voice: Forever Bad?
• Style Myths

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