Gramatica Inglesa.

The Blue Book
of Grammar
and Punctuation
An Easy-to-Use Guide
with Clear Rules, Real-World Examples,
and Reproducible Quizzes
Tenth Edition

Jane Straus

The Blue Book
of Grammar
and Punctuation
An Easy-to-Use Guide
with Clear Rules, Real-World Examples,
and Reproducible Quizzes
Tenth Edition

Jane Straus

Copyright  2008 by Jane Straus. All rights reserved.

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ContentsAcknowledgments

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About the Author

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Foreword by Mignon Fogarty (Grammar Girl)
Introduction
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Grammar
Finding Subjects and Verbs

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Finding verbs
Using verbs to find subjects
You as an understood subject
Multiple subjects and verbs in a sentence

Subject and Verb Agreement

2

Singular vs. plural verbs
With or and nor
With either and neitherWith conjunctions such as and and but
With interrupting expressions
With pronouns as subjects such as each, everyone, and anybody
With portions such as percent, fraction, part, some, all, and none
With here and there
With sums of money
With who, that, and which
With collective nouns

Pronouns

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Subject Case (Nominative): I, you, he, she, it, we, they

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Object Case (Objective): me, you, him, her, it, us, them
Correct use of pronouns by finding clauses
Following than or as
Possessive case: mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs, its
Its vs. it’s
Using possessive case with gerunds
Reflexives: the self pronouns

Who vs. Whom

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Whoever vs. Whomever

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That vs. Which

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Adjectives and Adverbs

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