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Chapter 14: Nouns and Pronouns
14.1 Nouns
Recognizing People, Places, and Things
Recognizing Collective Nouns
Recognizing Common and Proper Nouns
14.2 Pronouns
Recognizing Pronouns and Antecedents
Recognizing Demonstrative and Relative Pronouns
Recognizing Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns
Chapter 15: Verbs
15.1 Action Verbs
Recognizing Visible and Mental Actions
Identifying Transitive Verbs
15.2 Linking Verbs
Recognizing Forms of Be as Linking Verbs
Distinguishing Between Action Verbs and Linking Verbs
15.3 Helping Verbs
Chapter 16: Adjectives and Adverbs
16.1 Adjectives
Recognizing Adjectives and the Words They Modify (PDF)
Articles; Nouns Used as Adjectives (PDF)
Proper Adjectives and Compound Adjectives (PDF)
Possessive and Demonstrative Adjectives (PDF)
Interrogative and Indefinite Adjectives (PDF)
16.2 Adverbs
Recognizing Adverbs That Modify Verbs (PDF)
Recognizing the Words Adverbs Modify (PDF)
Adverb or Adjective? (PDF)
Chapter 17: Prepositions
17 Prepositions
Identifying Prepositions (PDF)
Preposition or Adverb? (PDF)
Chapter 18: Conjunctions and Interjections
18.1 Conjunctions
Identifying Coordinating and Correlative Conjunctions (PDF)
Recognizing Subordinating Conjunctions (PDF)
18.2 Interjections
Recognizing Interjections (PDF)
Chapter 19: Basic Sentence Parts
19.1 The Basic Sentence
Recognizing Subjects and Verbs (PDF)
19.2 Complete Subjects and Predicates
Recognizing Complete Subjects and Predicates (PDF)
19.3 Compound Subjects and Compound Verbs
Identifying Compound Subjects and Compound Verbs (PDF)
19.4 Hard-to-Find Subjects
Recognizing Subjects That Give Orders or Directions (PDF)
19.5 Complements
Direct Objects (PDF)
Distinguishing Direct Objects, Adverbs, and Objects of Prepositions (PDF)
Direct Objects in Questions (PDF)
Indirect Objects (PDF)
Indirect Object or Object of a Preposition? (PDF)
Predicate Nouns and Pronouns; Predicate Adjectives (PDF)
Compound Subject Complements (PDF)
Chapter 20: Phrases and Clauses
20.1 Phrases
Identifying Adjective and Adverb Phrases (PDF)
Participles, Verb or Participle? (PDF)
Participial Phrases (PDF)
Appositives and Appositive Phrases (PDF)
Identifying Appositives and Appositive Phrases (PDF)
Gerunds and Gerunds Phrases (PDF)
Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases (PDF)
20.2 Clauses
Recognizing Adjective Clauses (PDF)
Combining Sentences With Adjective Clauses (PDF)
Recognizing Adverb Clauses (PDF)
Elliptical Adverb Clauses (PDF)
Simple and Compound Sentences (PDF)
Complex and Compound-Complex Sentences (PDF)
Chapter 21: Effective Sentences
21.1 Classifying the Four Functions of a Sentence
Recognizing the Four Functions of Sentences (PDF)
21.2 Combining Sentences
Expanding and Combining Short Sentences (PDF)
21.3 Varying Sentences
Simplifying Long, Confusing Sentences (PDF)
Using Different Sentence Openers (PDF)
21.4 Avoiding Sentence Problems
Recognizing Fragments (PDF)
Changing Phrase and Clause Fragments Into Sentences (PDF)
Recognizing Run-ons (PDF)
Correcting Run-ons (PDF)
Recognizing Misplaced Modifiers (PDF)
Correcting Misplaced Modifiers (PDF)
Avoiding Double Negatives (PDF)
Recognizing Correct Usage (PDF)
Chapter 22: Using Verbs
22.1 The Principal Parts of Verbs
Principal Parts of Regular Verbs (PDF)
Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs (PDF)
22.2 The Six Tenses of Verbs
Recognizing Basic Forms and Tenses (PDF)
Recognizing Progressive Forms and Tenses (PDF)
Distinguishing Between Active and Passive Voice (PDF)
Using Verbs in Active and Passive Voice (PDF)
22.3 Troublesome Verbs
Using Troublesome Verbs Correctly (PDF)
Chapter 23: Using Pronouns
23 Using Pronouns
Identifying Pronoun Case (PDF)
Using Nominative and Objective Case Pronouns (PDF)
Using Possessive Case Pronouns (PDF)
Using Who and Whom (PDF)
Chapter 24: Making Words Agree
24.1 Subject and Verb Agreement
Identifying the Number of Nouns and Pronouns (PDF)
Recognizing Subject-Verb Agreement (PDF)
Agreement in Sentences With Inverted Word Order (PDF)
24.2 Agreement Between Pronouns and Antecedents
Making Personal Pronouns and Antecedents Agree (PDF)
Chapter 25: Using Modifiers
25.1 Comparisons Using Adjectives and Adverbs
Comparison of Regular Adjectives and Adverbs (PDF)
Using the Comparative and Superlative Degrees of Irregular Modifiers (PDF)
Using the Comparative and Superlative Degrees Correctly (PDF)
Making Logical Comparisons (PDF)
25.2 Troublesome Modifiers
Using Troublesome Adjectives and Adverbs Correctly (PDF)
Chapter 26: Punctuation
26.1 End Marks
Using End Marks Correctly (PDF)
26.2 Commas
Commas in Compound Sentences and Series (PDF)
Commas With Introductory and Parenthetical Material (PDF)
Commas With Nonessential Expressions (PDF)
26.3 Semicolons and Colons
Using Semicolons Correctly (PDF)
Using Colons Correctly (PDF)
26.4 Quotation Marks and Underlining
Quotation Marks With Direct Quotations (PDF)
Underlining and Quotation Marks (PDF)
26.5 Hyphens and Apostrophes
Using Hyphens (PDF)
Using Apostrophes with Possessive Nouns (PDF)
Using Apostrophes in Contractions (PDF)
Chapter 27: Capitalization
27 Capitalization
Capitals to Begin Sentences (PDF)
Capitals for Names of People and Places (PDF)
Capitals for Other Proper Nouns (PDF)
Capitals for Proper Adjectives (PDF)
Capitals for Titles of People (PDF)
Capitals for Titles of Things (PDF)
Grammar
Reference Links
Grammar Links
Guide to Grammar and Writing
This site, developed by Professor Charles Darling at Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut, presents interesting instructional materials and fun interactive activities on a wide range of grammar, mechanics, and sentence structure topics.
Grammar Bytes
This site provides "one-stop shopping" for learning about dozens of grammar terms and concepts. There are lots of interactive grammar exercises, too, to let you test your knowledge.
OWL—The Purdue University Online Writing Lab
Along with providing help on your writing, this site offers useful handouts on grammar, spelling, and punctuation topics.
Grammar Quizzes
This site provides lots of self-scoring grammar quizzes. The site is designed especially for students for whom English is not their native language, but it can be helpful for everyone who wants to test his or her grammar skills.
Writer's Workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Grammar Handbook on this site provides well-organized grammar instruction and examples.
Grammar Handbook Video clips
