Practice makes perfect - and helps deepen your understanding of English grammar Establishing good grammar habits will set you up for success.

Introduction 1 Part I: The Questions 5 Chapter 1: Time Travel: Identifying the Verb and Choosing the Correct Tense 7 Chapter 2: Taking a Look at Irregular, Helping, and Descriptive Verb Forms 13 Chapter 3: One to Many: Forming Plurals of Nouns and Pronouns 23 Chapter 4: Identifying Subjects and Perfecting Subject-Verb Agreement 29 Chapter 5: Coming to a Clear Agreement: Pairing Pronouns and Antecedents 35 Chapter 6: Solving the Case (of Pronouns) 39 Chapter 7: Forming Complete Sentences 45 Chapter 8: Moving Beyond the Basics: Adding Descriptions 51 Chapter 9: Taking the Long View: Descriptive Phrases and Clauses 57 Chapter 10: For Better or Worse: Forming Correct Comparisons 63 Chapter 11: Avoiding Capital Punishment: Placing Capital Letters Properly 69 Chapter 12: Exercising Comma Sense: Placing Commas Correctly 75 Chapter 13: Little Things That Mean A Lot: Apostrophes and Quotation Marks 81 Chapter 14: Not Just for Railroad Tracks: Parallelism 89 Chapter 15: Slimming Down: Cutting Repetition and Wordiness 95 Chapter 16: Aiming for Style: Creating Interesting Sentences 101 Chapter 17: Spotlighting Verbs: Voice and Mood 109 Chapter 18: Dealing with Electronic Media 113 Chapter 19: Choosing Language to Suit Your Audience 121 Chapter 20: Tricky Word Traps 127 Chapter 21: Seeing Double: Confusing Word Pairs 133 Chapter 22: Steering Clear of Incorrect Expressions 139 Part II: The Answers 145 Chapter 23: Answers 147 Index 289.