Contents for The Great Grammar Challenge: Test Yourself on Punctuation, Usage, Grammar — and More

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Foreword and Acknowledgments

References

The Basics

Chapter 1. Spelling and Nomenclature

• 1-1. Judge Your Spelling Expertise
• 1-2. ei or ie?
• 1-3. The Prefix for- vs. fore-
• 1-4. The Suffixes -acy, -asy, -esy, and -isy
• 1-5. The Suffix -ly vs. -ally
• A Trivial Query
• 1-6. The Suffix -eous vs. -ious
• 1-7. The Suffix -or vs. -er
• Spelling Trivia
• 1-8. The Suffixes -ary, -ery, and -ory
• 1-9. The Suffixes -able, -eable, and -ible
• 1-10. Spelling with h's
• 1-11. Adjectives for Proper Nouns
• 100 Problem Words
• 1-12. Anatomical Adjectives
• 1-13. Words Often Misspelled
• Of Gravity, Gold, and Government
• 1-14. Plurals of Nouns Ending in f
• Abbreviations/Acronyms/Initialisms
• 1-15. Forming Plurals
• 1-16. Common Abbreviations and Their Alternative Forms
• 1-17. Latin Abbreviations and Terms
• 1-18. Common Statistical Abbreviations
• 1-19. Trade Names
• International Trademark Association (INTA) Guidelines
• 1-20. Words for Measurements
• Treat Proper Names Properly
• 1-21. Verifying Proper Names

Chapter 1 Answers

Chapter 2. Punctuation

• 2-1. Punctuation Grab Bag
• What's a Virgule For?
• 2-2. Help Stop Comma Litter
• 2-3. Punctuation with Conjunctions
• 2-4. Punctuating Restrictive/Nonrestrictive Elements
• Rules for Commas with Modifiers
• 2-5. Commas with Compound Adjectives
• 2-6. Essential Series Commas
• 2-7. Semicolons in a Series
• 2-8. Commas, Colons, and Semicolons
• 2-9. Em Dashes, Parentheses, or Commas -- How to Choose?
• How Parentheses Are Used in Technical Documents
• 2-10. Punctuation with Quotation Marks
• 2-11. Quotation Marks and More
• 2-12. Possessives I
• 2-13. Possessives II
• 2-14. The Possessive with Verbals

Chapter 2 Answers

Chapter 3. Usage and Grammar

• 3-1. Subject-Verb Agreement I
• 3-2. Subject-Verb Agreement II
• 3-3. Subject-Verb Agreement III
• 3-4. Subject-Verb Agreement IV
• 3-5. Subject-Verb Agreement That "Sounds" Wrong
• Making Verbs Agree with Fractions and Percentages
• 3-6. Will the Real Subject Please Stand Up?
• 3-7. The Subjunctive: Wishful Thinking?
• 3-8. Verb Forms
• if/whether
• 3-9. Feeling Tense and Moody
• 3-10. The Placement of Modifiers
• Fixing Misplaced Modifiers
• 3-11. Misplaced Modifiers
• 3-12. Shifty Adverbs
• 3-13. Adverb or Adjective? Confusion with -ly Words
• Adverb or Adjective?
• 3-14. Pin Down Vague Terms of Measurement
• more than/over
• 3-15. Precision in the Choice of Words
• 3-16. More on Precise Words
• 3-17. Using the Right Idiomatic Prepositions
• 3-18. More Right Prepositions
• compare with/compare to
• Maintaining Distinctions
• 3-19. Second Cousin Exercise
• Terms for Language Errors
• 3-20. that vs. which and who
• 3-21. who/whom/whoever/whomever
• individual/person
• 3-22. Confusable Chestnuts
• 3-23. Common Confusables
• 3-24. More Confusables

Chapter 3 Answers

The Finer Points

Chapter 4. Writing and Rewriting

• 4-1. Breaking the Wordiness Habit
• Homographs/Homophones/Homonyms
• 4-2. Set Verbs Free
• 4-3. Redundancies
• 4-4. Shifts in Construction
• 4-5. Problems with Parallelism I
• Half-Dead Precisionist
• 4-6. Problems with Parallelism II
• 4-7. Problems with Parallelism III
• 4-8. Noun Strings
• On High School Students and Real Estate Taxes
• 4-9. Rewriting for Clarity I
• 4-10. Rewriting for Clarity II
• Elusive Quantities
• 4-11. Fraudulent Terms
• Oddment
• 4-12. Bugaboos
• The Fuzzy With
• 4-13. A Potpourri of Pesky Problems

Chapter 4 Answers

Chapter 5. Perennial Problems

• 5-1. Nonsexist Language
• Bias-Free Writing
• Grammar and Gender
• 5-2. Agreement between Pronouns and Antecedents
• Numbers: To Spell Out or Not?
• 5-3. Chicago's Number Style
• Capitalization Rules for Titles of Works
• 5-4. Capitalization, Chicago Style
• 5-5. Capitalization, GPO Style
• 5-6. Dashes
• Rules for Using Hyphens
• 5-7. Hyphenating Compound Words and Phrases I
• 5-8. Hyphenating Compound Words and Phrases II
• 5-9. Hyphenating Compound Words and Phrases III
• 5-10. Alphabetizing Index Entries
• 5-11. Catching Errors in Internet Addresses

Chapter 5 Answers

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