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Parts of Speech
Nouns and pronouns, capitals and style
Verbs
Tense, gerunds and infinitives
Adjectives and Adverbs
Adjectives and adverbs, correct order of use
Prepositions
Prepositions, conjunctions and conjuncts
Sentences
Rules for good sentences, types of sentences, clauses
Sentence Structure
Objects and predicates, verbs and objects, sentence complements, setting out paragraphs
More on Verbs
More on verbs, active and passive, verb forms, the use of apostrophes
Punctuation
Punctuation, concluding marks, internal punctuation, the correct use of dashes, quotation and dialogue marks, brackets
Spelling
Spelling, vowels, rules and common spelling errors, plurals
Agreement
Agreement (subject and verb, noun and pronoun), collective nouns and numerals, quantifiers, and modifiers, the use of who and whom, a or an, and eliminating the wordthat.
Direct and Indirect Speech
Direct and indirect speech, quotation marks, dialogue layout and punctuation, using the word "said", apostrophes, literary devices, common language faults
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