(Written by Howard, P)
- Most of the exercises are self-corrective and designed to give practise in improving sentence structure, vocabulary, spelling, style and recognition of literary terms.
- Contents: a simple word is best,
- the word "thing",
- agreement of verbs,
- case of pronouns,
- spelling demons,
- sentence beginnings,
- wordiness,
- active and passive voice,
- proof reading,
- correcting faults in style,
- verb moods,
- using other words,
- a letter applying for a job,
- capital letters,
- preposition + verb = noun,
- check your plurals,
- using commas,
- using correct prepositions,
- shades of meaning,
- similes and metaphors,
- precise writing,
- circumlocution,
- medical terms,
- ambiguity,
- more consistency of tense,
- pronouns and antecedents,
- verb + preposition = noun,
- words made from various compounds,
- apostrophe,
- using commas,
- punctuation,
- abstract expressions,
- words that can be confused,
- the paragraph,
- some literary terms,
- one word instead of many,
- correct form of a verb,
- parallel construction,
- dangling modifiers,
- paraphrasing.
- Answers.