【实例简介】Improve Your Punctuation
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Contents
Preface
ix
1 Following grammatical guidelines 1
Discovering nouns 1
Knowing the articles 7
Making use of pronouns 7
Finding out about verbs 12
Recognising interjections 24
Checklist 24
Practising what you’ve learnt 25
2 Learning about sentence construction 27
Analysing the simple sentence 27
Introducing phrases 28
Identifying main clauses 35
Identifying subordinate clauses 37
Checklist 47
Practising what you’ve learnt 47
3 Varying your sentences 50
Experimenting with simple sentence 50
Forming compound sentences 52
Checking your commas 55
Forming complex sentences 57
Writing non-sentences 60
Assessing the mood 63
Checklist 64
Practising what you’ve learnt 65
v4 Colouring your writing
66
Describing the nouns
66
Comparing adjectives
68
Helping your verbs
76
Comparing adverbs
77
Dealing with other adverbs
81
Checklist
86
Practising what you’ve learnt
87
5 Making sense of punctuation
88
Experimenting with the semicolon
88
Using the colon
91
Discovering the dash
91
Looking at brackets
92
Remembering the question mark
93
Avoiding the exclamation mark
94
Checklist
95
Practising what you’ve learnt
95
6 Handling apostrophes and abbreviations
96
Showing possession
96
Abbreviating words
99
Handling contractions
100
Using initial letters
101
Using acronyms
101
Checklist
102
Practising what you’ve learnt
102
7 Writing dialogue
103
Setting out direct speech
103
Using quotations
106
Using titles
107
Changing to indirect speech
108
Writing a play
110
Checklist
110
Practising what you’ve learnt
111
8 Avoiding common mistakes
112
Revising your punctuation
112
Making nouns and verbs agree
112
vi / IMPROVE YOUR PUNCTUATION & GRAMMARUsing pronouns correctly
115
Avoiding tautologies
117
Avoiding malapropisms
118
Checking homophones
120
Coping with homonyms
122
Checking your spelling
122
Correcting common mistakes
123
Checklist
127
Practising what you’ve learnt
127
9 Improving your style
128
Structuring a paragraph
128
Summing up
130
Eliminating jargon
131
Avoiding clichés
131
Dispensing with colloquial language
132
Choosing your words
132
Varying your style
133
Checklist
134
Practising what you’ve learnt
134
10 Revising your work
135
Revising the parts of speech
135
Reviewing sentence construction
138
Checking punctuation marks
139
Remembering apostrophes
141
Writing in paragraphs
141
Reviewing dialogue
142
Checklist
142
Concluding the review
143
11 Making use of the dictionary and thesaurus 144
Using the dictionary
144
Utilising the thesaurus
149
Checklist
149
Answers to exercises
150
Glossary
160
Further reading
163
Index
164
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