Grammar: 1,001 Practice Questions For Dummies

Practice makes perfect – and helps deepen your understanding of English grammar Establishing good grammar habits will set you up for success. From English class to writing your college essay, from cooperate communications, to updating your social media sites, good grammar is essential and now you have 1,001 ways to deepen your understanding and practice your skills. 1,001 Grammar Practice Problems For Dummies takes you beyond the instruction offered in a typical English grammar course and offers a hands-on understanding of grammar and its principles. Gives you a chance to practice and reinforce the skills you learn in a typical English grammar course Helps you refine your understanding of English grammar Practice problems range in difficulty and include detailed explanations and walk-throughs Whether you’re studying grammar at the high school level or just brushing up on your grammar skills, 1,001 Grammar Practice Questions For Dummies offers an on-the-go opportunity to succeed.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Questions
Chapter 1: Time Travel: Identifying the Verb and Choosing the Correct Tense
Chapter 2: Taking a Look at Irregular, Helping, and Descriptive Verb Forms
Chapter 3: One to Many: Forming Plurals of Nouns and Pronouns
Chapter 4: Identifying Subjects and Perfecting Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 5: Coming to a Clear Agreement: Pairing Pronouns and Antecedents
Chapter 6: Solving the Case (of Pronouns)
Chapter 7: Forming Complete Sentences
Chapter 8: Moving Beyond the Basics: Adding Descriptions
Chapter 9: Taking the Long View: Descriptive Phrases and Clauses
Chapter 10: For Better or Worse: Forming Correct Comparisons
Chapter 11: Avoiding Capital Punishment: Placing Capital Letters Properly
Chapter 12: Exercising Comma Sense: Placing Commas Correctly
Chapter 13: Little Things That Mean A Lot: Apostrophes and Quotation Marks
Chapter 14: Not Just for Railroad Tracks: Parallelism
Chapter 15: Slimming Down: Cutting Repetition and Wordiness
Chapter 16: Aiming for Style: Creating Interesting Sentences
Chapter 17: Spotlighting Verbs: Voice and Mood
Chapter 18: Dealing with Electronic Media
Chapter 19: Choosing Language to Suit Your Audience
Chapter 20: Tricky Word Traps
Chapter 21: Seeing Double: Confusing Word Pairs
Chapter 22: Steering Clear of Incorrect Expressions

Part II: The Answers
Chapter 23: Answers