Booher's rules of business grammar : 101 fast and easy ways to correct the most common errors / Dianna Booher.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-287) and index.

Acknowledgments --
Introduction: No louding --
Part 1: Verbosity About Verbs: The Big Blunders --
1: Let's dialogue about verbing words : turning perfectly fine nouns into verbs --
2: She went missing: sucking the life out of strong verbs --
3: Staying regular: irregular verbs --
4: He don't understand: the irregular verb to do --
5: They had went to my office earlier in the day: the irregular verb to go --
6: He come back from overseas early: the irregular verb to come --
7: I seen him leave: the irregular verb to see --
8: Lie or lay before I knock you off your feet: the lie/lay limbo --
9: He came, he saw, he conquered: don't be lax about tense changes --
10: If I was you: wishful thinking and the subjunctive mood --
11: Pushy people demanding their way: the subjunctive mood continued --
12: There's problems with that!: expletive deleted --
13: I wish I may, I wish I might could you tell me which verb to use tonight? : the may/might dilemma --
14: Sue is one who: the one of a kind or one of a category argument --
15: Separation anxiety: subjects and verbs that get split apart --
16: Which end is up?: complements of the verb or the chef --
17: Acting alone or with accomplices?: verbs after collective nouns --
18: None of your business: definitely indefinite pronouns --
19: Total 'em up: verbs with time, money, quantities, fractions, and percentages --
20: Kaleidoscope effect : a and the before amounts --
21: Seesaw effect: either/or, neither/nor, not only/but also --
Part 2: Pesky Pronouns: The Understudies --
22: Just between you and I: the case for objective pronouns --
23: Me and Pongo know him: the case for nominative pronouns --
24: Me, myself, and I: reflexive pronouns flexing their muscles --
25: To whom it may concern: who versus whom --
26: She's taller than me: pronouns after than --
27: You know what they always say about that: unclear references --
28: Which hunts: that versus which --
29: Is Shamu a who?: people who or that? --
Part 3: Modifier Mishaps --
30: Misplaced modifiers that mystify: putting them in their place --
31: Can you hook me up?: dangling modifiers --
32: Which is what I always say: dangling whichs --
33: Troublesome twosomes: one word or two? --
34: Learn this backwards and forwards: the unnecessary-S --
35: Honor or an honor to be here?: the articles: a or an? Part 4: Adjective And Adverb Attitudes --
36: She did things different: adjectives modifying verbs-a no-no --
37: Team played real good: well versus good --
38: This job is more simpler than what I had before: comparing with more and most --
39: It's the most unique gift I've ever received!: unique, round, square, surrounded, perfect-or not? --
40: This checkout-20 items or less: less versus fewer --
41: He has over a million miles on that airline: over versus more than --
42: I like smaller cars: incomplete comparisons --
Part 5: Parallel Bars And Balance Beams --
43: To balance or not to balance-that is the question parallelism perfected --
44: I worked, waited, and was rewarded: parallelism with a viewpoint change --
45: Verbs with attitude: active and passive voice --
46: Time marches on-but at the same pace: don't be lax about tense changes --
Part 6: Punctuation Problems --
47: Comma hiccups: unnecessary commas --
48: Comma clauses and pauses: essential or nonessential-that is the question --
49: Hi Hank, what do you think Frank?: commas when addressing people directly --
50: Dear spike: punctuation after salutations --
51: She needs no introduction: commas to introduce --
52: Punctuation powerless: run-ons-semicolons slip-sliding away --
53: One car, two cars, three cars, four: commas to separate equal things --
54: Alpha and the Omega: enclosing commas come in pairs --
55: Colon scope-here's the scoop: colons before a list --
56: Fragmented thoughts: unintentional fragments --
57: Would you send me your address please: indirect questions and softened commands --
58: Can you hear me now?: indirect quotations --
59: Inside or outside?: where, oh where, do the quotation marks go? --
60: Ripley's believe it or not: quotation marks to change the tone or the meaning --
61: Spare tires: single quotation marks --
Part 7: Perplexing Possessives --
62: Whatever possessed me!: it's versus its --
63: Who's on firsts?: whose versus who's --
64: Why are you so possessive?: plurals confused with possessives --
65: Yours, mine, and ours: joint ownership-who gets the apostrophe? --
66: Do you love me-or what I can do for you?: possessives before gerunds --
67: It's about time: possessives with time and amounts --
68: Overly possessive: descriptive or possessive? Part 8: Reminders About Redundancies --
69: Past experience-is there any other kind?: little-word padding and redundant ideas --
70: Continue on : redundant verb add-ons --
71: Subject matter worth discussing: redundant nouns --
72: Reason is because: doublespeak --
73: Going to bat for that's: do you need the that? --
74: I get your point-but do you get mine?: et cetera and so forth --
75: Where's he at?: unnecessary prepositions --
Part 9: Miscellaneous Matters --
76: Oh, say, can you see?: mispronunciation --
77: What are the odds to start?: starting a sentence with a number --
78: Nonsense: nonwords, fillers, and colloquialisms --
79: You should of known better!: contractions that aren't --
80: Got trouble?: have versus got? --
81: Make a dash for it: distinct uses for hyphens and dashes --
82: Dash away, dash away, dash away all: dashes versus well-organized sentences --
83: No death knell for the hyphen: hyphens before related adjectives --
84: Matching body parts: correlative links --
85: Up a tree without a paddle: mixed metaphors --
86: As much or more than most: prepackaged comparisons --
87: Doing the splits: split infinitives --
88: Without just cause: without: what it can and can't do --
89: Getting top billing: phrasal prepositions --
90: Branding issue: capitalization rules for the road --
91: Name, rank, and serial number: capitalization with titles and positions --
92: Undercapitalized with no regrets: the case for lowercase --
Part 10: Misspelled And Misused Words --
93: Would you spell that for me?: frequently misspelled words --
94: May I see your references, please?: spelling rules for plural forms --
95: Messing with my head: hyphenate? solid? two words? --
96: I resemble that remark: affect versus effect --
97: Do I have your guarantee? ensure, insure, assure? --
98: It's a matter of principle: principle versus principal --
99: Good example: eg versus ie --
100: How are you? nauseated versus nauseous --
101: Is success imminent?: eminent versus imminent --
Bibliography --
Resources by Dianna Booher --
For more information --
Index.

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