
Introduction
Did You Know?
Parts of speech
Participles and verbal nouns 🌶️
- 0.1 Recognising parts of speech
Toolkit Challenge 1
 Introduction
Meet the adjectival family
- 1.1 Misplaced phrases and clauses
- 1.2 Controlling a string of qualifiers
- 1.3 Unattached (dangling) participles
- 1.4 Confused degrees of comparison
- 1.5 The wrong degree of comparison
- 1.6 Adjectives that can't be compared
Toolkit Challenge 2
Toolkit Challenge 3
Introduction
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Modality
- 2.1 Detached adverbial clauses
- 2.2 Misplaced modifiers
- 2.3 Adjectives used as adverbs
- 2.4 So, that and which
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Helpful Hint - So fun
- 2.5 Double negatives
Toolkit Challenge 4
Toolkit Challenge 5
Toolkit Challenge 6
- 4.1 Coordinating conjunctions
Introduction
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Did You Know? - neologisms
- 5.1 Forming regular plurals
- 5.2 Plurals not possessives
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Did You Know? - apostrophes
- 5.3 Irregular plurals
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Did You Know? - the plural of child
- 5.4 Noun clauses
Toolkit Challenge 7
Nominalisation
Toolkit Challenge 8
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Toolkit Challenge 9
- 6.1 Why we use paragraphs
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Did You Know? - paragraphs
- 6.2 Irrelevant sentences
- 6.3 Dull introductory paragraph
- 6.4 Concluding paragraph
Introduction
- 8.1 Ambiguity
- 8.2 Inconsistency of gender
Did You Know? - genderless pronouns
- 8.3 Inconsistency of number
- 8.4 Incorrect case
- 8.5 Who or whom
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Helpful Hint - audience and tenor
- 8.6 Who, that or which
- 8.7 Gerunds
Toolkit Challenge 10
- 9.1 Monotonous sentence structure
- 9.2 Phrases that are not parallel
- 9.3 Faulty ellipsis
- 9.4 Verbosity
- 9.5 Sentence fragments
An overview of syntax
Simple sentences
Complex sentences
Models of English syntax
Dependent clauses
Co-ordination
Toolkit Challenge 11 🌶️
Introduction
- 10.1 Number of verbs
Grammar Alert
- 10.2 Verbs for collective nouns 🌶️
- 10.3 Present and past tense
- 10.4 The historic present tense
- 10.5 Past, present and future perfect tense
- 10.6 The subjunctive mood
- 10.7 Would of instead of would have
- 10.8 Incorrect inflections
- 10.9 Splitting the infinitive
- 10.10 Try and instead of try to
Tense, aspect, number, modality
Toolkit Challenge 12
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Mood
Active/passive voice
Toolkit Challenge 13
Toolkit Challenge 14 🌶️