Grammar - An Introduction
An Overview of Syntax
Independent and dependent clauses
Grammar Table
Dependent clauses
Co-ordination
Toolkit Challenge
Did You Know? - Grammar
Adjectives - An Introduction
Meet the adjectival family
Degrees of Comparison
Misplaced adjectival phrases and clauses
Controlling a string of qualifiers
Unattached (dangling) participles
Confused degrees of comparison
The wrong degree of comparison
Adjectives that cannot be compared
Adverbs - An Introduction
Toolkit Challenge - Cool
Toolkit Challenge - Fun
Modality
Detached adverbial clauses
Misplaced modifiers
Adjectives used as adverbs
So, that and which
Helpful Hint - So Fun
Double Negatives
Insertion of the articles a, an and the
The use of an before vowels
Coordinating conjunctions
Nouns - An Introduction
Toolkit Challenge -nomen
Meet the Noun Family
Nominalisation
Did You Know?
Forming regular plurals (adding s)
Plurals not possessives
Irregular plurals
Noun clauses
Why we use paragraphs
Irrelevant sentences in paragraphs
Dull introductory paragraph
Concluding paragraph
Prepositions - An Introduction
The wrong preposition
Pronouns - An Introduction
Ambiguity
Ambiguity Cartoon
Inconsistency of gender
Inconsistency of number
Incorrect case
Who or whom
Who, that or which
Pronouns before verbal nouns (gerunds)
Monotonous sentence structure
Phrases that are not parallel
Faulty ellipsis
Verbosity
Sentence Fragments
Verbs - An Introduction
Tense, Aspect, Number, Modality
Mood
Active/Passive Voice
Toolkit Challenge - a
b
c
d
e
Number of verbs
Verbs for collective nouns
Tense confusion—present and past
Tense confusion—the historic present
Tense confusion—past, present and future perfect
Tense confusion—the subjunctive mood
Would of instead of would have
Incorrect inflections
Splitting the infinitive
Try and instead of try to
Vocabulary - An Introduction
Etymology
Boring word choice
Inappropriate register
Redundancy
Confused words of similar meaning
Helpful Hint - Be Smarter than a Supermarket
Punctuation - an Introduction
Possession—regular singular nouns
Possession—sibilant singular nouns
Possession—plural nouns
Joint possession
Contractions
Beginning sentences
Proper nouns (names)
Titles
Common usage
Separating listed items
Addressing people (nominative of address)
Direct speech
Parenthetical phrases
Nouns in apposition
Nouns functioning as adjectives
Non-defining participial phrases
Non-defining adjectival clauses
Introductory adverbial information
Absolute phrases
Over-punctuating: commas for pauses in speech
Parenthetical statements
Afterthoughts
Collecting scattered subjects
Italics/Underlining
Exclamation marks
Abbreviations
Closing sentences
Compound words
Prefixes
End-of-line hyphenation
Distinguishing between direct and indirect speech
Quotations within quotations
Paragraph layout
Setting out dialogue
Including long quotations
Indicating questions
Statements not questions
¿What Do You Think?
Lists of lengthy items
Conjunctive adverbs
Balanced statements
Toolkit Challenge - phone
Toolkit Challenge - onym
Toolkit Challenge - Spell Checker
Spelling - An Introduction
ie or ei
Their, there and they’re
Helpful Hint
Were and where
-y and -ies endings
Your and you're
Silent Letters
What Do You Think? - Phonetic Spelling
Commonly confused homophones
Did You Know? - Malapropisms
Commonly confused virtual homophones
Dessert Cartoon
Attaching prefixes
Incorrect negative prefixes
Adding suffixes—monosyllabic words
Adding suffixes—polysyllabic words
Adding the suffixes -ible and -able