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The Infographic Guide to Grammar
The Infographic Guide to Grammar
C O N T E N T S
CHAPTER 1
PARTS OF SPEECH
Nouns
Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Verb Tenses
Pronouns
Phrases
Conjunctions
Interjections!
CHAPTER 2
SENTENCE STRUCTURE
Sentence Functions
Subject-Verb Agreement
Compound Subjects
Complements
Phrases
Clauses
Clauses
PUNCTUATION
Capitalization
Ending a Sentence
Commas
Quotation Marks
Parentheses
Brackets
Ellipses
The Slash
WRITING STYLE
Audience
Paragraph Structure
Variety
Improving Writing
COMMON MISTAKES
and Jargon
Modifier Problems
Double Negatives
Fussy Grammar
CHAPTER 1
PARTS
OF S P E E C H
Nouns
Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Verb Tenses
Pronouns
Phrases
Conjunctions
Interjections!
CHAPTER 2
S E N T E N C E
S T R U C T U R E
Sentence Functions
Subject-Verb Agreement
Compound Subjects
Complements
Phrases
Clauses
Clauses
PUNCTUATION
Capitalization
Ending a Sentence
Commas
Quotation Marks
Parentheses
Brackets
Ellipses
The Slash
W R I T I N G
S T Y L E
Audience
Paragraph Structure
Variety
Improving Writing
C O M M O N
M I S T A K E S
and Jargon
Modifier Problems
Double Negatives
Fussy Grammar
INDEX
A B
C
Action verbs, 18–19, 86
Adjective phrases, 46
Clarity, 52–53, 92–93
Adjectives
Clauses
definite adjectives, 17
commas with, 63
demonstrative adjectives, 17
dependent clauses, 31, 48
indefinite adjectives, 17
independent clauses, 36–37, 48, 67,
interrogative adjectives, 17
116
modifiers, 16–17
non-restrictive clauses, 50–51
phrases, 46
restrictive clauses, 50–51
possessive adjectives, 17
subordinate clauses, 36–37, 49
predicate adjectives, 45
Clichés, 104–5
proper adjectives, 17
Collective nouns, 15
Adverb phrases, 46
Colons, 65–67
Adverbs
Commas, 62–63, 74
modifiers, 20–21, 69
Complements, 44–45
phrases, 46
116
“An
it”’, 119
Complete thoughts, 36–37, 48, 66–67,
Antonyms, 92, 93
116
Apostrophes, 60, 61
Complex phrases, 48
Appositive phrases, 47
Complex sentences, 37
Articles, 17
Compound sentences, 37, 63
Attributive nouns, 15
Compound subjects, 42–43
Conjunctions
correlative conjunctions, 31
Generalizations, 104–5
subordinating conjunctions, 31
Gerunds, 47
Contractions, 60, 61, 119
Good/well, 111
Coordinating conjunctions, 30–31
Correlative conjunctions, 31
Correspondence, 120
Homophones, 106
D
Hyphens, 68–69
Dashes, 68–69, 71
Intransitive verbs, 19
E
Irregular verbs, 24–25
Italics, 74–75, 94
Editors, 99, 101
Ellipses, 76–77
En dashes, 68–69, 71
L
Exams, 120
Lie/lay, 111
M
Formal writing, 120
Fractions, 41, 79
Measurements, 41, 79, 110
Mistakes
Non-count nouns, 15
fewer/less, 111
Nouns
first/firstly, 121
abstract nouns, 15
fussy grammar, 120–21
attributive nouns, 15
generalizations, 104–5
collective nouns, 15
good/well, 111
common nouns, 15
he/him, 108–9
concrete nouns, 15
its/it’s, 61, 107
count nouns, 15
jargon, 65, 85, 104–5
non-count nouns, 15
loose/lose, 107
possessive nouns, 15
me/I, 120
proper nouns, 15
modifiers, 114–15
phrases, 112–13
too/to/two, 107
P
toward/towards, 121
which/that, 51
Paragraph structure, 90–91
whose/who’s, 106
Parallelism, 52–53
wordiness, 116–17
Participial phrases, 47
you/you’re, 106
Parts of speech
Modifiers
adjectives, 16–17, 45–46
adjectives, 16–17
adverbs, 20–21, 46, 69, 118
adverbs, 20–21, 69
articles, 17
prepositions, 28–29
pronouns, 26–27, 40–41, 118, 120 personal pronouns, 27
Pronouns
Q
classifications of, 27
demonstrative pronouns, 27
Question marks, 58, 59, 65, 74
subjects, 38–43
Reflexive pronouns, 27
subject-verb agreement, 40–43
Relative pronouns, 27
Sentence variety, 92–93
Simple sentences, 37
Since/because, 121
Sentence length, 92–93 Speech, parts of, 13–33. See also Parts
T
non-restrictive clauses, 50–51
parallelism, 52–53
That/which, 51
predicates, 38–39
Thesaurus, 93
punctuation, 55–81
Titles, 41, 57, 65, 67, 74–75
sentence fragments, 36
Transitional words/phrases, 88–89
U
sentence variety, 92–93
simple sentences, 37
Underlining, 74–75
URLs, 78
V
Verbs
repetition and, 92–93
of being, 18, 19
slang, 65, 96–97
intransitive verbs, 19
transitional words/phrases, 88–89
Y
linking verbs, 18, 45
Your/you’re, 106
transitive verbs, 19
Which/that, 51
Whose/who’s, 106
Wordiness, 116–17
Writing style
dialect, 96–97
improving, 98–99