Top 20 : Great Grammar for Great Writing /
Top Twenty.
Keith S. Folse, Elena Vestri Solomon, and Barbara Smith-Palinkas.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
- xi, 303 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
CONTENTS Overview 1 Verb Tense Review 2 Problems with Verb Tenses 3 Nouns 4 Pronouns 5 Subject-Verb Agreement 6 Prepositions 7 Articles: a, an, the 8 Word Forms 9 Modals: Present and Future 10 Past Modals 11 Gerunds and Infinitives 12 Passive Voice and Participial Adjectives 13 Logical Connectors 14 Sentence Matters: Variety, Common Problems (Run-ons, Comma Splices, Fragments), and Punctuation 15 Parallel Structure 16 Adjectives Clauses 17 Noun Clauses 18 Adverb Clauses 19 Confusing Pairs of Words: Verbs and Nouns 20 Confusing Pairs of Words: Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions Appendixes 1 Parts of Speech 2 Irregular Verb Forms 3 Irregular Noun Plurals 4 Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs 5 Understanding the Writing Process: The Seven Steps 6 Editing Symbols