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Part Ⅰ OF WORDS The Tools of Expression 1

CHAPTER Ⅰ Parts of Speech 1

CHAPTER Ⅱ Nouns 3

Proper Nouns 4

Common Nouns 5

Collective Nouns 5

Nouns Changing Camps 6

Abstract and Other Nouns 8

CHAPTER Ⅲ Verbs 9

Putting the Verbs in Their Places 11

Object 12

CHAPTER Ⅳ Adjectives 13

CHAPTER Ⅴ Adverbs 14

Adverbs from Adjectives 15

CHAPTER Ⅵ Conjunctions 16

CHAPTER Ⅶ Pronouns：Personal，Reflexive，Relative，Interrogative，Demonstrative 18

CHAPTER Ⅷ Number 21

CHAPTER Ⅸ Number of Nouns：Plurals Formed by Adding es 22

by Changing f or fe to ves 25

by Changing y into ies 25

Plurals in en 26

Plurals by Change of Vowel 26

Singular and Plural the Same 26

Fish and Fishes；People and Peoples 27

Plural Form for Singular Also 27

Two Plural Forms with Different Meanings 28

Only Singular；Different Meanings in Singular and Plural 28

Plural but Used as Singular 29

Singular Used for Plural in Certain Combinations；Plurals of Compound Words 29

Foreign Words 30

Collective Nouns 30

CHAPTER Ⅹ Number of Pronouns．Demonstrative Pronouns；One－Ones；Such；Interrogative and Relative Pronouns；Possessive Pronouns；Reflexive Pronouns 31

CHAPTER Ⅺ Number of Adjectives：Some Adjectives Are Singular 34

CHAPTER Ⅻ Number of Verbs：Auxiliary Verbs 35

CHAPTER ⅩⅢ Gender：Some Special Points；How Gender is Denoted；Gender of Pronouns 35

CHAPTER ⅩⅣ Tense：Formation of Tenses 39

CHAPTER ⅩⅤ Other Forms of Verbs，Present Participle，Infinitive 40

CHAPTER ⅩⅥ Degree 42

Part Ⅱ OF THE USE OF WORDS 44

CHAPTER ⅩⅦ Use is Everything：Use Decides Transitive and Intransitive；Adverb or Preposition？ 44

CHAPTER ⅩⅧ Sentence 47

CHAPTER ⅩⅨ Clause 49

CHAPTER ⅩⅩ Phrase 51

CHAPTER ⅩⅪ Parts of a Sentence 52

CHAPTER ⅩⅫ Concord 53

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅢ Agreement between Subject and Predicate 54

And；As Well As；With；or 55

Tyranny of the Nearest Word 56

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅣ Some Snags in Concord When or joins Singular and Plural Nouns；Am or Is？ 58

There Is or There Are？ 59

Deceptive Singulars：－Every One，No One，Each，Many A 59

Predicate to Agree with Subject and Not with Object 61

Were with Singular Subject 61

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅤ Adjective Sequence 62

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅥ Pronoun Sequence 63

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅦ Sense than Words 63

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅧ Sequence of Tense 64

Where two Tenses are Right in the Same Sentence；Historic Present；Past or Present Perfect？ 66

Part Ⅲ THE PARTS OF SPEECH IN ACTION 68

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅨ Auxiliary Verbs：Voice 68

May and Can；Will and Shall 69

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅩ Pronouns：I，Me；You and I： 72

I or Me After Comparison？Me and My；Myself；He－Him；Who－Whom；Who－Which；Which－That；And which；Impersonal Pronouns；You and We；One 72

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅪ Forming the Possessive：Yours，Ours，Mine．Possessive as Adjective 82

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅫ The，A and An；The Editor and Manager 84

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅩⅢ Adverbs： 87

Modifying Prepositions 87

Modifying Conjunctions 87

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅩⅣ Comparative and Superlative Degrees；More and Most：-er and -est；Rounder；Wisest of the Two；Older and Elder 87

Farther and Further 91

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅩⅤ Prepositions．Some Helpful Rules 91

With；About and Around；Prepositions Used as Conjunctions；Like 92

In and On 94

Between and Among 94

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅩⅥ Conjunctions： 97

But；Or，Either，Neither 98

Incorrect Conjunctions 100

Part Ⅳ AN ASSORTMENT OF IMPORTANT RULES 101

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅩⅦ Position of Words： 101

Modifiers and Modified；Split Infinitive；Subject and Predicate；Position of Importance；Only 101

Forlorn Words；Beginning with a Present Participle 104

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅩⅧ Negatives： 105

When to Say ＇No＇ 105

Double Negatives 105

Negative with Hardly and But 106

CHAPTER ⅩⅩⅩⅨ Some Common Errors：Words 106

Plural or Singular；Both；Doesn＇t or Don＇t？ 106

Deny or Decline？Defend the Enemy；Fear；Revenge；Too Kind；Searched the Man 107

Would You Mind？In or Under the Circumstances 108

Study or Read？Follow or Accompany？That Why；That How；Few；Little；Means 109

CHAPTER ⅩL Chameleon Words： 110

Lie；Hang 110

Rise and Raise 112

Soon and Quickly 112

Special and Especial 112

CHAPTER ⅩLⅠ A List of Words People Trip Over 113

Same Sound but Different Spelling and Meaning 113

Same Spelling and Sound but different Meaning 115

Different Sounds and Meanings but Similar Spelling 115

Similar but Different；Related in Meaning but Really Different 116

CHAPTER ⅩLⅡ Common Mistakes in Sentences 118

CHAPTER ⅩLⅢ Reported Speech 120

CHAPTER ⅩLⅣ Some Principles of Spelling 130

Capital Letters：S or Es in the Plural？ 131

Ys or Ies？Y + able；-able or -ible？ei or ie？ 131

Doubling the Final Consonant 133

Why All Right but Already？ 134

Fulfil，Skilful 134

C in Noun and S in Verb 135

Different Spellings in Different Parts of Speech；-Us and -Ous 135

When to Drop e；Some Commonly Misspelt Words 136

CHAPTER ⅩLⅤ Punctuation： 137

Full Stop；Comma；Semi-colon 138

Colon；Hyphen；Dash；Apostrophe；Quotation marks 143

CHAPTER ⅩLⅥ Some Essentials of English Pronunciation 148

CHAPTER ⅩLⅦ Correct English Tests 151