Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Number One Mistake: Misusing "I" and "Me" -- Part A: Deleting the Other Person's Name -- Part B: Completing the Sentence -- Chapter 2: Working with "He" or "Him" and "She" or "Her" -- Chapter 3: Quotation Marks and Other Punctuation -- Chapter 4: The "ing" Thing -- Chapter 5: "That" or "Which" and Some Other Things -- Chapter 6: Misusing the Apostrophe -- Part A: Forming Plurals -- Part B: Forming Possessives -- Chapter 7: Troublesome Verbs-"Lie," "Lay," "Laid," "Lain" -- Chapter 8: "Less" or "Fewer" -- Chapter 9: Commas and Semicolons in a Series -- Chapter 10: Commas between Adjectives -- Summary -- Bonus Section: Time-Saving References -- Part A: All about "Who" or "Whom" -- Part B: Forming the Plural of Nouns: Special Exceptions to the Rules -- Plural of ordinary nouns -- Nouns ending in f or fe -- Nouns ending in o -- Nouns ending in y -- Plural of Native American tribes -- Irregular plurals -- Plurals of national group names -- Plurals of compound nouns -- Plurals of letters, signs, symbols, figures, and so forth used as nouns -- Plurals of academic degrees -- Plural of words used as nouns -- Plural nouns used as singular -- Singular form wrongly used as plural -- Plural of italics -- Part C: Forming the Possessive Case: Irregular and Special Examples -- General rule for forming possessive case of nouns -- Using the "of " construction -- General rule for forming possessive case of pronouns -- The seven possessing pronouns and their independent forms -- Using pronouns and their independent forms with nouns -- Using independent forms without nouns -- Independent form used as the subject -- Cardinal rule: no apostrophes with possessive pronouns -- Compound personal pronouns -- Proper names to express possession -- Possessive of noun compounds.

Possessive for companies, organizations, and so forth -- "Of " construction not used with plural place names -- Possessive with italics -- Joint possession and individual possession -- Possessive of nouns plural in form and singular in meaning -- Possessive forms of diseases -- Possessive nouns that are the same in singular and plural -- Possessive forms of holidays -- Part D: Principal Parts of Verbs Made Easy -- Principal Parts -- Appendix: Keeping Up-To-Date: Ten Short Reminders -- "Can" and "may" -- Ending sentences with a preposition -- Starting sentences with a conjunction -- No periods after academic degrees -- Spelling out of numbers -- Using "ly" after spelled-out numbers -- "Further" and "farther" -- Using simple personal pronouns -- "Sure" and "certain" -- "Good" and "well".