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The American Heritage® Book of English Usage.
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English.  1996.

1. Grammar

Traditional Rules, Word Order, Agreement, and Case
 
THIS chapter treats traditional problems of grammar and problems involving word order, grammatical agreement, parts of speech, conjunctions, pronouns, and verbs. Problems that are inherent to individual words or entail a choice between words are generally treated under Word Choice. If you cannot find the word or subject you are looking for, check the indexes at the end of the book.

  1. absolute constructions
  2. absolute terms
  3. adjectives
  4. adverbs, comparison of
  5. adverbs, position of
  6. agreement
  7. ain’t
  8. also
  9. and
  10. any
  11. anyone
  12. as
  13. as far as
  14. auxiliary and primary verbs
  15. because
  16. better / best
  17. but
  18. can
  19. cannot
  20. collective noun
  21. dangling modifiers
  22. dare
  23. double negative
  24. double passive
  25. each
  26. either
  27. every
  28. gerund
  29. had better
  30. hardly
  31. have to
  32. however
  33. like
  34. may
  35. more than one
  36. must
  37. need
  38. neither
  39. none
  40. nor
  41. not
  42. nothing
  43. one
  44. only
  45. or
  46. ought
  47. participles
  48. plus
  49. possessive constructions
  50. prepositions
  51. pronouns, agreement of
  52. pronouns, personal
  53. pronouns, reflexive and intensive
  54. rather
  55. scarcely
  56. shall / will
  57. should
  58. so
  59. split infinitive
  60. subject and verb agreement
  61. subjunctive
  62. that
  63. there
  64. this
  65. used to
  66. verbs, mood of
  67. verbs, principal parts of
  68. verbs, tenses of
  69. verbs, transitive and intransitive
  70. verbs, voice of
  71. very and past participles
  72. what
  73. whatever
  74. when
  75. where
  76. which
  77. whichever
  78. who
  79. whose
  80. would


The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. Copyright © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
 
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