TY  - BOOK
AU  - McKee,Nancy P.
AU  - Kennedy,George E.
TI  - Correcting Common Errors in Writing
SN  - 0757568092 (Student Book)
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Dubuque, IA
PB  - Kendall/Hunt Pub.
KW  - English language
KW  - Errors of usage
KW  - Composition and exercises
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Evaluation
N1  - CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Grammar; Agreement; G.1 Fewer vs. Less (aka Count Nouns vs. Mass Nouns); G.2 Number vs. Amount (aka Count Nouns vs. Mass Nouns); G.3 A Great Deal of (aka Count Nouns vs. Mass Nouns); G.4 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement; G.5 Plural Subject, Plural Objects; G.6 Subject-Verb Agreement; Pronouns
; G.7 I or Me, Which Is It?
; G.8 Myself/Yourself/Herself/Ourselves/Yourselves/Themselves
; G.9 That/Which/Who/Whom; G.10 Who/Whom/Whoever/Whomever; Sentences; G.11 Sentence Fragments (Something to avoid); G.12 Whereas/Although/Though and As Far As; Verbs; G.13 -ing Forms; G.14 Had vs Would Have and If Clauses; G. 15 Might vs May; G.16 To Lie (To Recline) vs To Lay (To Place); G. 17 Present Subjunctive and Were vs. Was with If Clauses; Other Common Errors; G.18 Between-Among; G.19 Confusing Prepositional Phrases: Singulars and Plurals; G. 20 Consistent Use of Plural; G.21 Than; Punctuation; Apostrophes; P.1 Apostrophe Pitfalls; P.2 Contraction; P.3 Possession; P.4 Plural Forms of Years and Other Perfectly Respectable Nouns; Colons; P.5 Colons in Complicated Sentences; P.6 Colons in Simple Lists; Commas; P.7 Comma Splices (Something To Avoid); P.8 Introductory Phrases and Clauses; P.9 Commas with Coordinating Conjunctions; P.10 Apposition; P.11 Commas in a List; Periods; P.12 Periods; Quotation Marks; P.13 When Do You Use Quotation Marks?; P.14 Where Does the End Punctuation Go?; Semicolons; P.15 Semicolons in a Complex List; P.16 Semicolons Where You COULD Use Periods; Spelling; Capitalization; S.1 Proper Nouns; S.2 Common Nouns; S.3 Adjectives That Need To Be Capitalized; Other Common Errors; S.4 Accustom/Accustomed; S.5 Advice/Advise; S.6 Affect/Effect; S.7 Aisle/Isle; S.8 Allusion/Illusion; S.9 A lot/Allot/ A Lot; S.10 Alright/All Right; S.11 Altogether/All Together; S.12 Anymore/Any More; S.13 A Part/Apart; S.14 Asterik/Asterisk; S.15 Awhile/ A while; S.16 Bare/Bear/Bear; S.17 Being that/Since (or Because); S.18 Bias/Biased; S.19 Can not/Cannot; S.20 Chose/Choose; S.21 Coarse/ourse; S.22 Defiant/Definate/Definite; S.23 Do to/ Due to; S.24 Dominant/Dominate; S.25 Ect./Etc; S.26 Every Day/Everyday; S.27 Except/Accept; S.28 Heighth/Height; S.29 It's/Its; S.30 Lead/Lead/Led; S.31 Loose/Lose; S.32 Momento/Memento; S.33 Moral/Morale; S.34 Nonetheless/None the Less/Nevertheless/Never the Less; S.35 Noticable/Noticeable; S.36 Occurrance/Occurrence; S.37 Onetime/ One Time; Sometime/ Some Time; S.38 Past/Passed; S.39 Populous/Populace; S.40 Preform/Perform; S.41 Prejudice/Prejudiced; S.42 Principal/Principle; S.43 Recent/Resent; S.44 Recieve/Receive; S.45 Recue/Reoccur; S.46 Scientist/Scientists; S.47 Sight/Site/Cite; S.48 Tenant/Tenet; S.49 Their/There/They're; S.50 Then/Than; S.51 Through out/Throughout; S.52 Through/Thru/Threw; S.53 To/Too/Two; S.54 Use To/Used To; S.55 Vain, Vein, Vane; S.56 Verses/Versus; S.57 Where/Were; S.58 Who's/Whose; S.59 With regards to/With regard to; S.60 Woman/Women; S.61 Would of/Would Have; Usage; U.1 Errors and Choices; U.2 False Elegance: Pronouns; U.3 False Elegance: Empty Expressions; U.4 False Elegance: Unnecessarily Fancy Words; U.5 Execessively Casual Tone: Terms of Address vs. Terms of Reference; U.6 Nouns Used as Other Parts of Speech; U.7 Sentences Ending in Prepositions; U.8 Split Infinitives; U.9 Bring/Take; U.10 Enormity/Enormousness: Mistaken Synonyms; U.11 Nouns ending in -ee; U.12 Different Than/Different From; U.13 Disinterested Than/Different From; U.14 Infer/Imply; U.15 Suppose/Supposed; U.16 To try and/To try to; U.17 Weird Plurals; A Final Word; Paragraphing; Index; "What you have in your hand is not a style manual nor a grammar book, both of which deal comprehensively with the mechanics of language and writing. Instead, it is a collection of common errors made by students, along with explanations in most cases of why they ARE errors, and examples of ways to correct them. [...]; So, this book is both a reference (for you to use when you have a question about some particular problem) and a guide (for you to use to correct errors that your instructor has noted in your writing), and it is very easy to use. It is divided into five main parts: Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling, Usage, and A Final Word. Within those parts, we have divided the contents further into other easily identified parts. Under the main heading Grammar, for instance, we have included significant sub-headings, such as Agreement, Pronouns, Verbs, et. And finally, we have arranged all the errors by name alphabetically and have assigned them numbers, so that under the sub-heading Agreement, the question of using fewer vs. less is labeled as G1, etc." (Preface, pp. ix-xi); CONTENTS
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