The Articles • Agreement of Verb and Subject • Nouns: Singular or Plural? Some Special Cases • The Partitive use of ‘of’ • Concord of Nouns, Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives (Third Person) • The Possessive Adjective or the Definite Article with Nouns Denoting Parts of the Body • Confusion of Adjectives and Adverbs • ‘Fairly’ and ‘rather’ • Adverbial Use of ‘no’, ‘not’ and ‘none’ • Difficulties with Comparatives and Superlatives • Confusion of Participles: Active and Passive Voice • The Prop-Word ‘one’ • Prepositions • The Word ‘Home’: Used with and without a Preposition • Negative Verbs • Tenses • Redundant Pronouns and Prepositions in Complex Sentences • Redundant Conjunctions in Complex Sentences • Introductory ‘there’ • The Infinitive • Anticipatory ‘it’ with Noun Clauses and Adjective Clauses • The Position of Adverbs • Verbs Compounded with Adverbs: The Position of the Object • Tag Questions • Appended Questions • Indirect (Reported) Questions • The Indirect Expression of Imperatives • The use of Correlatives • ‘Who’ and ‘whom’ • ‘Much’ and ‘many’ • ‘Much’ and ‘very’ • ‘Still’ and ‘yet’ • ‘Make’ and ‘do’ • The Verb ‘have’ • ‘Shall’ and ‘will’ • Used to (Verb) and ‘to be used to’ • ‘So that’ and ‘so as’ • Errors in the use of Individual Words • The Courtesy Words ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ • Dates and the Time • The British Monetary System • Greetings and Salutations • Appendices • Index
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