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Before you get started, it is important that you are
familiar with the following topics:
| Preliminary Topics |
Chapter |
Page Numbers |
| Complete Subject |
16 a |
470-71 |
| Complete Predicate |
16 a |
470-71 |
| Independent Clause |
17 b |
494 |
| Dependent Clauses |
17b |
494-95 |
| Simple Sentence |
17 c |
500-01 |
| Compound Sentence |
17 c |
501 |
| Punctuation |
Chapter |
Page Numbers |
| Commas |
31 a-g |
686-98 |
| Semicolons |
32a-c |
701-05 |
| Apostrophes |
33a-c |
706-12 |
| Quotation Marks |
34a-d |
714-20 |
| Periods and Other Marks |
35a-i |
721-34 |
| Agreement |
Chapter |
Page Numbers |
| Subject-Verb |
17e |
535-545 |
| Pronoun-Antecedent |
16d-e |
496-507 |
| Sentence Completeness |
Chapter |
Page Numbers |
| Revising Sentence Fragments |
18a-c |
507-12 |
| Revising Fused Sentences and Comma Splices |
19a-d |
513-27 |
| Modifiers |
Chapter |
Page Numbers |
| Awkward/Ambiguous Modifiers |
20f |
540-42 |
| Placement of Modifiers |
20e |
539-40 |
| Dangling Modifiers |
20f |
540-42 |
| Mechanics |
Chapter |
Page Numbers |
| Capitalization |
37a-e |
748-56 |
| Italics |
38a-f |
757-62 |
| Abbreviations |
39a-d |
763-68 |
| Numbers |
39f-g |
769-72 |
| Other Topics |
Chapter |
Page Numbers |
| Faulty Predication/Topic Shift |
23d |
606 |
| Mixed Construction |
23c |
605-06 |
| Incomplete Comparison |
23g |
610 |
| Parallelism |
25a-e |
621-27 |
| Pronoun Reference |
21e |
562-65 |
| Conciseness/wordiness
Link to Exercises |
30a-d |
679-84 |
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