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Nouns in -0.

Peculiar plurals

Two plurals.

Plural like singular .

Plural as singular

Plural or singular wanting

Compound nouns

Letters, figures, signs .

Collective nouns.

Proper names .

Proper names with titles

Foreign nouns

Case: nominative, objective, possessive

Possessive case; rule .

Exceptions to rule

Freedom in poetry

Joint ownership

Noun omitted after possessive

Misuse of possessive

Appositive; apposition

Appositive in possessive case

Apposition denoted by phrase with of

Essential and nonessential appositive

Adverbial noun

Time when or within which

Adverbial noun and object .

Noun as adjective; faulty use

THE PRONOUN .

Pronoun or adjective .

Classification.

The personal pronoun

Person

Number; case.

Gender

Uses of it

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Editorial we

Mistakes in case; reading aloud

Them for those

Repetition of noun or pronoun; ambiguity

Substitute for noun or pronoun

The possessive pronoun.

Possessive pronouns

Possessive adjectives

The demonstrative pronoun

Demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative adjectives; this kind, etc.

Peculiar uses

Misuse of this .

The interrogative pronoun

Interrogative pronouns

Direct and indirect question

Case

Interrogative adjectives .

Gender

The relative pronoun •

Adjective clause; antecedent

Relative pronouns

Relative adjectives .

That as adverb

Gender

Whose ; caution

Agreement .

It as antecedent; agreement

Case

Omission.

Essential and nonessential clause

Usage .

Antecedent a group of words

Position.

In coördination and subordination.

And who, and which, but who, etc. .

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The compound relative pronoun

Antecedent; case

Compound relative adjectives

The indefinite pronoun

Indefinite pronouns

Indefinite adjectives

Reciprocal pronouns : each other, one another

One, one's, oneself

One, one's, etc., overworked .

The numeral one.

Any one, etc.

The intensive and reflexive pronouns

Intensive and reflexive pronouns

Yourself .

Intensive pronoun used alone

Personal pronoun as reflexive

THE ADJECTIVE

Attributive (adherent) appositive, predicate .

Adjective phrase and clause .

Essential and nonessential clause

Classification ...

Descriptive and proper adjective

Possessive adjectives .

His: gender

Our, ours, your, yours, etc.

Indefinite adjectives

Verb with each, every, either, neither

Numeral adjectives : cardinal, ordinal, multiplicative

Hundred, thousand, million

Concrete and abstract numbers

And in numbers

Time-table style .

Year of event

Written numbers

Literary style

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a. More formal

b. Less formal .

(1) Numbers in general

(2) Dates

(3) Street numbers of houses, etc.

Technical style

Mixed styles

Figures connected by dashes

Comparison : positive, comparative, superlative

Comparison with more and most

Irregular comparison

Farther, further

Latter, lesser

Little, smaller, smallest

Older, elder.

Use of comparison

Emphatic superlative .

Misuse of superlative .

Two qualities compared .

The (definite article), an (indefinite article)

The with generic noun

Many a, such a

Adjective repeated

a. Noun unchanged

6. Noun made singular

All, both .

Else, else's

Else and other omitted

First two, second two, etc.

Half

Less, fewer .

Male, female

Gentleman, lady.

Woman's, women's .

Lady, madam, mesdames .

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Verb phrase

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Transitive; intransitive

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Auxiliary

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Linking; predicate adjective, etc.

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There is, there

were, etc.

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Mood: indicative, subjunctive, imperative

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Indicative mood .

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Infinitive

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Participle

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Tense.

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Person; number.

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Regular; irregular .

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Principal parts

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Conjugation

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Irregular verbs

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Lay, lie ; set, sit

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Progressive verb phrases

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Direct and indirect quotation

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Sequence of tenses

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Shall, will, of obligation, etc..

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Shall or will

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Will in commands .

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Defective verbs : can, may, must, ought, should, would .

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Can, could; may, might .

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Must

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Ought .

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Should, would, of simple futurity

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Should like, should have liked .

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