Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- What You'll Find -- How This Workbook Is Organized -- Part I: The Questions -- Part II: The Answers -- Beyond the Book -- What you'll fi nd online -- How to register -- Where to Go for Additional Help -- Part I: The Questions -- Chapter 1: Time Travel: Identifying the Verb and Choosing the Correct Tense -- The Questions You'll Answer -- What to Watch Out For -- Locating the Verb -- Choosing Simple and Perfect Tense Verb Forms -- Consistently Choosing the Right Verb Tense -- Chapter 2: Taking a Look at Irregular, Helping, and Descriptive Verb Forms -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Handling Irregular Verbs -- Dealing with To Be and To Have -- Adding Meaning with Helping Verbs -- Creating Questions with Helping Verbs -- Detecting and Placing Descriptive Verb Forms -- Selecting Tense for Descriptive Verb Forms -- Chapter 3: One to Many: Forming Plurals of Nouns and Pronouns -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Forming Plural Nouns -- Sorting Singular and Plural Pronouns -- Chapter 4: Identifying Subjects and Perfecting Subject-Verb Agreement -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Locating the Subject -- Fine-Tuning Subject-Verb Agreement -- Chapter 5: Coming to a Clear Agreement: Pairing Pronouns and Antecedents -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Identifying Pronouns and Their Antecedents -- Pairing Pronouns and Antecedents Correctly -- Avoiding Vague Pronoun References -- Chapter 6: Solving the Case (of Pronouns) -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Sorting Subject, Object, and Possessive Pronouns -- Using Subject and Object Pronouns Correctly -- Chapter 7: Forming Complete Sentences -- The Questions You'll Work On.

What to Watch Out For -- Recognizing Complete Sentences -- Combining Ideas Correctly -- Correcting Run-Ons and Fragments -- Chapter 8: Moving Beyond the Basics: Adding Descriptions -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Distinguishing Between Adjectives and Adverbs -- Placing Adjectives and Adverbs in Sentences -- Dealing with Articles -- Hyphenating Descriptions -- Chapter 9: Taking the Long View: Descriptive Phrases and Clauses -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Identifying the Words Being Described -- Avoiding Misplaced, Dangling, and Vague Descriptions -- Chapter 10: For Better or Worse: Forming Correct Comparisons -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Creating Comparative and Superlative Forms -- Avoiding Incomplete, Illogical, or Vague Comparisons . -- Chapter 11: Avoiding Capital Punishment: Placing Capital Letters Properly -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Capitalizing Names, Titles, Relationships, and Ethnicity -- Capitalizing Geographical Names, Quotations, and School References -- Capitalizing the Titles of Artistic or Scientifi c Works -- Chapter 12: Exercising Comma Sense: Placing Commas Correctly -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Commas in Lists -- Using Commas with Identifying and Extra Information -- Creating a Pause in a Sentence -- Chapter 13: Little Things That Mean A Lot: Apostrophes and Quotation Marks -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Creating the Possessive Form of Nouns -- Creating Contractions with Apostrophes -- Inserting and Deleting Apostrophes -- Distinguishing Between Quotations and Paraphrases -- Placing Quotation Marks and Other Punctuation -- Punctuating Academic Work -- Chapter 14: Not Just for Railroad Tracks: Parallelism.

The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Identifying Parallel Elements in Lists -- Working with Paired Conjunctions -- Creating Parallel Comparisons -- Keeping Sentences Parallel -- Chapter 15: Slimming Down: Cutting Repetition and Wordiness -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Cutting Repetitive Words and Phrases from Sentences -- Writing Concisely -- Chapter 16: Aiming for Style: Creating Interesting Sentences -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Weaving Complex Sentences -- Varying Sentence Patterns -- Chapter 17: Spotlighting Verbs: Voice and Mood -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Identifying Active and Passive Verb Forms -- Changing Passive Voice to Active -- Using Subjunctive Verbs Properly -- Chapter 18: Dealing with Electronic Media -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Presentation Slides -- Composing E-Mails, Instant Messages, and Texts -- Chapter 19: Choosing Language to Suit Your Audience -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Identifying Levels of Formality -- The Right Words for the Right Time -- Chapter 20: Tricky Word Traps -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Distinguishing between Words Resembling Each Other -- Words Incorrectly Seen as Synonyms -- Chapter 21: Seeing Double: Confusing Word Pairs -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Selecting the Correct One- or Two-Word Expression -- Eliminating Words that Don't Exist -- Chapter 22: Steering Clear of Incorrect Expressions -- The Questions You'll Work On -- What to Watch Out For -- Avoiding Double Negatives and Other Errors -- Counting and Measuring Words -- Strange Verb Pairs -- Part II: The Answers . -- Chapter 23: Answers -- Index -- EULA.