Pocket Guide to Correct Grammar Book

	Preface	v
	The Word	1
1.	The Noun	1
2.	The Pronoun	7
3.	The Verb	16
4.	The Adjective and the Adverb	27
5.	The Verbal	33
6.	Prepositions and Conjunctions	37
7.	Sentence Connectors	40
8.	The Interjection	41
	The Sentence and Its Parts	42
9.	The Subject and the Predicate	42
	Sentence Errors	65
10.	Sentence Fragments	65
11.	The Comma Fault	67
12.	The Fused Sentence	68
	Logic and Clarity	70
13.	Agreement of Subject and Verb	70
14.	Agreement of Pronoun and Antecedent	80
15.	Faulty Pronoun Reference	85
16.	Case	89
17.	Dangling Modifiers	96
18.	Misplaced Modifiers	101
19.	Split Constructions	106
20.	Faulty Comparison	112
21.	Omission of Necessary Words	115
	Emphasis, Consistency, and Appropriateness	119
22.	Emphasis	119
23.	Consistency	129
24.	Variety	132
	Punctuation	135
25.	Terminal Punctuation	135
26.	The Comma	136
27.	Misuse of the Comma	144
28.	The Semicolon	145
29.	The Colon	147
30.	The Em Dash	148
31.	The En Dash	148
32.	The Hyphen	149
33.	The Apostrophe	150
34.	Parentheses and Brackets	150
35.	Quotations and Quotation Marks	151
36.	Italics	156
	Wordiness	158
37.	Avoiding Wordiness	158
	Glossary of Words and Phrases Frequently Misused	161
	Which Prepositions go with which Verbs?	179
	A Brief Glossary of Basic Grammatical Terms	183
	Conjugations and Principal Parts	192