| The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. |
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
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1. Grammar
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| Traditional Rules, Word Order, Agreement, and Case |
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| THIS chapter treats traditional problems of grammar and problems involving word order, grammatical agreement, parts of speech, conjunctions, pronouns, and verbs. Problems that are inherent to individual words or entail a choice between words are generally treated under Word Choice. If you cannot find the word or subject you are looking for, check the indexes at the end of the book. |
- absolute constructions
- absolute terms
- adjectives
- adverbs, comparison of
- adverbs, position of
- agreement
- ain’t
- also
- and
- any
- anyone
- as
- as far as
- auxiliary and primary verbs
- because
- better / best
- but
- can
- cannot
- collective noun
- dangling modifiers
- dare
- double negative
- double passive
- each
- either
- every
- gerund
- had better
- hardly
- have to
- however
- like
- may
- more than one
- must
- need
- neither
- none
- nor
- not
- nothing
- one
- only
- or
- ought
- participles
- plus
- possessive constructions
- prepositions
- pronouns, agreement of
- pronouns, personal
- pronouns, reflexive and intensive
- rather
- scarcely
- shall / will
- should
- so
- split infinitive
- subject and verb agreement
- subjunctive
- that
- there
- this
- used to
- verbs, mood of
- verbs, principal parts of
- verbs, tenses of
- verbs, transitive and intransitive
- verbs, voice of
- very and past participles
- what
- whatever
- when
- where
- which
- whichever
- who
- whose
- would
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