Geraldine Woods teaches English and directs an independent study program for gifted students at the high school level. She has more than 25 years of teaching experience and has helped students prepare for the SAT for more than 30 years. She has written more than 50 books, including English Grammar For Dummies .

Introduction 1 Part I: The Questions 5 Chapter 1: Time Travel: Identifying the Verb and Choosing the Correct Tense 7 Chapter 2: Taking a Look at Irregular, Helping, and Descriptive Verb Forms 13 Chapter 3: One to Many: Forming Plurals of Nouns and Pronouns 23 Chapter 4: Identifying Subjects and Perfecting Subject-Verb Agreement 29 Chapter 5: Coming to a Clear Agreement: Pairing Pronouns and Antecedents 35 Chapter 6: Solving the Case (of Pronouns) 39 Chapter 7: Forming Complete Sentences 45 Chapter 8: Moving Beyond the Basics: Adding Descriptions 51 Chapter 9: Taking the Long View: Descriptive Phrases and Clauses 57 Chapter 10: For Better or Worse: Forming Correct Comparisons 63 Chapter 11: Avoiding Capital Punishment: Placing Capital Letters Properly 69 Chapter 12: Exercising Comma Sense: Placing Commas Correctly 75 Chapter 13: Little Things That Mean A Lot: Apostrophes and Quotation Marks 81 Chapter 14: Not Just for Railroad Tracks: Parallelism 89 Chapter 15: Slimming Down: Cutting Repetition and Wordiness 95 Chapter 16: Aiming for Style: Creating Interesting Sentences 101 Chapter 17: Spotlighting Verbs: Voice and Mood 109 Chapter 18: Dealing with Electronic Media 113 Chapter 19: Choosing Language to Suit Your Audience 121 Chapter 20: Tricky Word Traps 127 Chapter 21: Seeing Double: Confusing Word Pairs 133 Chapter 22: Steering Clear of Incorrect Expressions 139 Part II: The Answers 145 Chapter 23: Answers 147 Index 289