Fifth Ed. - Sentence Correction

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Chapter by Chapter

1. Sentence Correction Basics

   Question Format; “Best” Does Not Mean Ideal; Understand the Sentence, Then Split the Answers; Put Your Answer Back In; Using This Book

2. Grammar & Meaning

   Grammar: A Closer Look; Meaning: A Closer Look; Meaning: Choose Your Words; Meaning: Place Your Words; Meaning: Match Your Words; Meaning: Avoid Redundancy; What About Concision?

3. Subject-Verb Agreement

   Subject and Verb Must Both Exist; Subject and Verb Must Make Sense Together; Subject and Verb Must Agree in Number; Eliminate the Middlemen, and Skip the Warmup; Use Structure to Decide; And vs. Additive Phrases; Or, Either… Or, & Neither… Nor; Collective Nouns: Almost Always Singular; Indefinite Pronouns: Usually Singular; Each and Every: Singular Sensations; Quantity Words and Phrases; Subject Phrases and Clauses: Always Singular; Flip It!; When in Doubt, Think Singular

4. Parallelism

   Parallel Markers; Parallel Elements; Lists with And; Idioms with Built-In Parallel Structure; Superficial Parallelism vs. Actual Parallelism; Watch Out for Linking Verbs

5. Pronouns

   The Antecedent Must Exist; The Antecedent & Pronoun Must Make Sense Together; The Antecedent & Pronoun Must Agree in Number; The Deadly Five: It, Its, They, Them, Their; This, That, These, and Those; What About Ambiguity?

6. Modifiers

   Adjectives and Adverbs; Noun Modifiers; Position of Noun Modifiers; Watch Out for Possessives; Noun Modifiers with Relative Pronouns; Essential vs. Non-Essential Noun Modifiers; Verb Modifiers; Which vs. the Present Participle-ing

7. Verb Tense, Mood, & Voice

   Simple Tenses; Progressive Tenses; Make Tenses Reflect Meaning; The Perfect Tenses: An Introduction; Present Perfect: Still In Effect…; Past Perfect: The Earlier Action; Perfect Tenses: Only When Necessary; Tense Sequence; The Subjunctive Mood; The Hypothetical Subjunctive; If… Then Constructs; The Command Subjunctive; Active and Passive Voice; Is Passive Voice Ever the Correct Answer?

8. Comparisons

   Like vs. As; Keep Comparisons Parallel; Omitted Words; Comparative and Superlative Forms

9. Idioms

   Using Your Ear: Spot – Extract – Replace; Idiom List

10. Odds & Ends

    Connecting Words; Connecting Punctuation; Quantity

11. GM/S-V/Parallelism: Extra

    Concision: Specific Patterns of Wordiness; Concision: Don’t Make It Too Short; Parallelism: Concrete Nouns and Action Nouns; What Else Is Considered Parallel

12. Pronouns & Modifiers: Extra

    Other Pronouns; Placeholder It; Avoiding Pronouns Altogether; Nuances of Pronoun Reference; Modifiers: Exceptions to the Touch Rule; Possessive Nuances; Subgroup Modifiers; More on Relative Clauses vs. Participles; Absolute Phrases

13. Verbs & Comparisons: Extra

    Helping Verbs; Verbals: An Overview; Infinitives; Gerunds; Participles; When to Use Which Verbal or Verb; More on Like and As; Numbers in Comparisons; Other Comparison Constructions

14. Appendix A: Official Guide Problem Set

    Official Guide Problem Sets

15. Appendix B: Glossary

    Glossary

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