CITATION

Swick, Ed. Practice Makes Perfect English Problem Solver. McGraw-Hill, 2013.

Practice Makes Perfect English Problem Solver

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Published:  February 2013

eISBN: 9780071791250 0071791256 | ISBN: 9780071791243
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Definite versus Indefinite Articles
  • Definite Articles
  • Indefinite Articles
  • Plural Articles
  • 2. Capitalization and Punctuation
  • Capitalization
  • Names
  • Titles
  • First Word of a Sentence
  • Quotations
  • Places
  • Titles not Capitalized
  • Books and Periodicals
  • Compass Points
  • Seasons of the Year
  • School Subjects
  • Series
  • Punctuation
  • Period
  • Question Mark
  • Exclamation Point
  • Comma
  • Colons
  • Semicolon
  • Quotation Marks
  • Apostrophe
  • Hyphen
  • 3. Homophones
  • 4. Verb Oddities
  • Be
  • Have
  • Verbs Ending in a Vowel
  • Present Participles
  • 5. Tense Usage
  • Present Tense
  • Past Tense
  • Perfect Tenses
  • Future Tense
  • Going
  • Adverbs
  • 6. Passive versus Static Passive
  • Passive Voice
  • Other Auxiliaries
  • Indirect Objects
  • Static Passive
  • 7. Subject-Verb Agreement
  • And, or, and Nor
  • Number
  • All, None, and Some
  • Time and Money
  • Scissors and Politics
  • Collective Nouns
  • 8. Verbs and Prepositions
  • To
  • Location Prepositions
  • About, For, and To
  • 9. Subjunctive
  • Present Subjunctive
  • Past Subjunctive
  • If
  • 10. Little Versus Few
  • Little
  • Few
  • Comparative
  • 11. Comparatives and Superlatives
  • Comparatives
  • Superlatives
  • 12. Pronoun Varieties
  • Personal Pronouns
  • Singular or Plural Verbs
  • Other Pronoun Forms
  • Quantifiers
  • 13. Determiners and Adverbs of Degree
  • Demonstratives
  • Possessives
  • Ordinal Numbers and Quantifiers
  • Adverbs of Degree
  • 14. Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles
  • Gerunds
  • Infinitives
  • Participles
  • 15. Auxiliaries
  • Should and Would
  • Should Have and Would Have
  • Modals
  • Modals and Past Participles
  • 16. Using Get
  • Passive Voice
  • 17. Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses
  • Combining Sentences
  • Prepositions
  • Restrictive Relative Clauses
  • Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses
  • 18. Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions
  • Subordinating Conjunctions
  • The Conjunction As
  • The Conjunction That
  • The Conjunction Because
  • 19. Phrasal Verbs
  • Be
  • Check
  • Do
  • Figure
  • Fill
  • Give
  • Go
  • Keep
  • Let
  • Make
  • Run
  • Set
  • Stand
  • Take
  • Turn
  • Walk
  • 20. Writing
  • Appendix: Homophones
  • Answer Key