| Description |
1 online resource (215 p.) |
| Series |
Media Skills Series |
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Media Skills Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: How this Book Began -- 1 English Today -- 'Britishisms' -- American Spelling ... -- ... Grammar... -- ... and Punctuation -- Fragments -- Meaning -- 'You're Welcome' -- The 'Baby Boom' Myth -- Homegrown Clichés -- Political Correctness, Gender and Race -- Insults Reclaimed -- Swearing and Taboo -- Proven (And Other Pomposities) -- House Style -- 2 Grammar: the Rules -- The Parts of Speech -- Article -- Noun -- Pronoun -- Verb -- Finite Verbs -- Indicative Tenses -- Conditional Tenses |
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Subjunctive Tenses -- Non-finite Verbs -- Adjective -- Adverb -- Preposition -- Conjunction -- Interjection -- Sentences -- Transitive Verbs and Objects -- Intransitive Verbs -- Active and Passive Verbs -- Inactive Verbs and Complements -- Agreement of the Verb -- Sentence Structure -- Clauses -- That and Which -- Phrases -- 3 Grammar: 10 Common Mistakes -- 1 The Dangling Modifier -- The Floating Participle (A Particular Case of the Dangling Modifier) -- 2 Number Disagreement -- 2a Verb Clash -- 2b Noun/pronoun Clash -- 2c Pronoun Clash -- 2d Pronoun/verb Clash -- 2e Singular Verb for Plural |
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2f Plural Verb for Singular -- 3 Fewer and Less -- 4 Tenses Out of Sequence -- Subjunctive Failure -- 5 May for Might -- 6 One and You -- 7 Saying It Twice -- 8 Whom for Who -- 9 Pronoun Abuse: I and Me Etc -- 10 And Which Etc -- 4 Grammar: Problems and Confusions -- A and an -- Absolute Adjectives -- After -- And and But -- And Which Etc -- Any -- As -- As and Than -- Between -- Bored (Of) -- Both -- Centre Around, In, On -- Compare Like With Like -- Compare to and With -- Comprise (Of) -- Conjunctions to Start Sentences -- Dangling Modifier -- Different From, Than, to -- Double Negative |
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Due to -- Equally -- Fed Up (Of) -- Few -- Fewer and Less -- Floating Participle -- Following -- For You and I -- Fragments -- From/to -- The 'Fronted Adverbial' Muddle -- Hopefully -- Lay and Lie -- Like and Such as -- May for Might -- Meet -- Myself -- None -- No Question/argument -- Number Disagreement -- One and You -- One Word Not Two -- Only -- Prepositions: the Pitfalls -- Prepositions to End Sentences -- Saying It Twice -- Since -- Split Infinitive -- Subjunctive Failure -- Suffice (It) to Say -- Superlatives -- Tenses Out of Sequence -- That and Which -- They, Their, Them -- Try To/and |
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Whether -- Which and That -- Whom for Who -- With -- 5 Spelling -- Words People Get Wrong -- Confusions -- I Before E -- Plurals -- Suffixes -- Agreement -- American Variants -- Spelling Mistakes -- 6 Punctuation -- The Four Main Stops -- Comma -- Semicolon -- Colon -- Full Stop (Full Point, Period) -- The Paragraph Break -- Quotation Marks (Quote Marks, Quotes) -- Parentheses -- Other Marks -- Dash -- Hyphen -- Problem -- Apostrophe -- Apostrophe Problems -- Question Mark (Query) -- Common Query Mistakes -- Exclamation Mark (Screamer) -- Dots (Ellipsis, Leader Dots...) -- Slash (Oblique /) |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Allen, Gavin
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| ISBN |
9781000895407 |
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1000895408 |
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