Table of Contents

Introduction ... v
Part I Grammar 101 ... 1
1. Parts of Speech ... 3
2. Basic Phrases ... 23
3. Sentences and Clauses ... 45
4. Verb Forms ... 73
5. Verbals ... 95
Part II How to Find and Correct Mistakes 109
6. Writing Complete Sentences ... 109
7. Subject-Verb Agreement ... 123
8. Pronoun Problems ... 139
9. Verb Problems ... 175
10. Modification ... 193
11. Commas ... 233
12. Apostrphes ... 253
13. Semicolons and Colons ... 269
14. Quotation Marks ... 269
15. Capitalzation ... 281
16. Parallelism ... 291
Glossary if Terms ... 297
Index ... 333

About the Author

Mark Lester (Spokane, WA) is an experienced grammarian, ESL expert, and college professor. He was the founding chair of the ESL department at the University of Hawaii, which is now considered one of the best ESL programs in the United States. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Grammar and Usage in the Classroom, the most widely used college grammar textbook in the country. For McGraw-Hill Professional, he authored McGraw-Hill’s Essential ESL Grammar and English Grammar Drills. He is the coauthor of The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage, with Larry Beason, and of The Big Book of English Verbs, with Dan Franklin and Terry Yokota. Lester is Eastern Washington University professor emeritus of English (he was formally chair of the English department). Dr. Lester obtained his BA in philosophy and English Literature at Pomona College and his PhD in Linguistics from UC Berkeley. He also holds an MBA from the University of Hawaii.
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