May I Quote You on That? : A Guide to Grammar and Usage.

Cover -- May I Quote You on That?: A Guide to Grammar and Usage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- About the Companion Website -- Chapter 1: What Is Standard English, and Who Gets to Decide What's Proper English Today? -- NONSTANDARD ENGLISH -- THE PRESCRIPTIVE APPROACH -- WHO DECIDES WHAT'S PROPER ENGLISH TODAY? -- Chapter 2: Some Really Basic Grammar Terms -- GRAMMAR -- USAGE -- NOUNS -- PRONOUNS -- ADJECTIVES -- VERBS -- ADVERBS -- PREPOSITIONS -- PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES -- CLAUSES -- MOOD -- Chapter 3: Tricky Words, Usage, and Grammar -- A or AN -- A or An Before Words That Start With H - -- AIN'T -- ALLUDE, ALLUSION -- Allude -- Allusion -- ALTERNATE or ALTERNATIVE -- Alternate -- Alternative -- AMONGST -- AMOUNT or NUMBER -- Amount -- Number -- AND/OR -- ANXIOUS -- AS or LIKE -- As -- Like -- "AS GOOD AS . . . OR BETTER THAN" -- BEGGING THE QUESTION -- BETWEEN or AMONG -- Between -- Among -- CAN or MAY -- Can -- May -- CANNOT BUT or CANNOT HELP -- COMPARISONS: "MAGIC MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO IS THE FAIREST ONE OF ALL?" -- COMPOSED OF or COMPRISE -- Is Composed Of -- Comprises -- DECIMATE -- DIDACTIC or PEDANTIC -- Didactic -- Pedantic -- DIFFERENT FROM, DIFFERENT THAN, or DIFFERENT TO, DIFFERENTLY FROM or DIFFERENTLY THAN -- Different From -- Different Than -- Differently From -- Differently Than -- DOUBLE NEGATIVES -- E.G. or I.E. -- E.g. -- I.e. -- EITHER or NEITHER -- EITHER . . . OR, NEITHER . . . NOR -- Either . . . Or -- Neither . . . Nor -- ENDING A CLAUSE OR A SENTENCE WITH A PREPOSITION: "PEDANTIC NONSENSE UP WITH WHICH I WILL NOT PUT" -- EQUALLY AS -- ET AL. or ETC. -- Et Al. -- Etc. -- EXTREMIST or FANATIC -- Extremist -- Fanatic -- FARTHER or FURTHER -- Farther -- Further -- FEELING BAD, FEELING WELL, LOOKING MARVELOUS, SMELLING SWEET, ETC.: LINKING VERBS -- GO or SAY -- GOOD.

Good as an Adjective -- Good as a Noun -- To Do Something "Good": Good as an Adverb -- HANGED or HUNG -- Hanged -- Hung -- HE or THEY AFTER ANYBODY, EVERYONE, SOMEBODY, A PERSON, ETC. -- He, Him, His -- They, Their, Them -- HOI POLLOI -- I or ME: SUBJECT PRONOUNS AND OBJECT PRONOUNS -- It's Not You, It's Me -- Between You and Me -- You and I or You and Me -- Than I or Than Me, As I or As Me -- "IF I WERE A RICH MAN": THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD -- "If I Were an Oscar Mayer Wiener" -- "I Wish I Were in Love Again" -- When Not to Use the Subjunctive -- When If Refers to Something That Might Be True -- When You're Just Checking on Something -- The Death of the Subjunctive? -- IMPLY or INFER -- Imply -- Infer -- IRONY or SARCASM -- Irony -- Sarcasm -- Irony -- Sarcasm -- KIND OF, SORT OF -- Kind Of -- Sort Of -- KUDOS -- LAY or LIE -- Lay -- Lie -- LESS or FEWER -- Less -- Fewer -- Exceptions to the Rule -- LITERALLY -- MARK TWAIN'S SNORING: GERUNDS -- NONE -- None with Singular Verbs -- None with Plural Verbs -- NOR -- PARODY or SATIRE -- Parody -- Satire -- PRACTICABLE, PRACTICAL, PRAGMATIC -- Practicable -- Practical -- Pragmatic -- PREROGATIVE -- QUOTE or QUOTATION -- SPLIT INFINITIVES: "TO BOLDLY GO" -- SUBSTITUTE or REPLACE -- THAT or WHICH -- That -- Which -- Exceptions to the Rule -- That or Which vs. Who -- THERE IS or THERE ARE -- There Is -- There Are -- THIS or THAT KIND, THESE or THOSE KINDS -- This Kind -- These or Those Kinds -- UNIQUE, PERFECT: COMPARING ABSOLUTE ADJECTIVES -- Unique -- Perfect -- Other Absolute Adjectives -- WHEN, WHERE -- Is When, Is Where -- Where -- WHO or WHOM -- Who -- Whom -- A Trick for Deciding When to Use Who or Whom -- WHOEVER or WHOMEVER -- Whoever -- Whomever -- Chapter 4: Tricky Words of The Twentieth Century and Today -- ACCESS -- AVATAR -- COULDN'T CARE LESS -- DATA -- The Data Are, Etc. (Plural).

The Data Is, Etc. (Singular) -- DISINTERESTED or UNINTERESTED -- Disinterested -- Uninterested -- FINALIZE -- FLAMMABLE or INFLAMMABLE -- FORTUITOUS or FORTUNATE -- Fortuitous -- Fortunate -- FUNDAMENTALISM -- HOPEFULLY -- THE INTERNET or THE WORLD WIDE WEB -- The Internet -- The World Wide Web -- IRREGARDLESS or REGARDLESS -- ISLAMIC OR ISLAMIST -- Islamic -- Islamist -- JIHAD -- "LIKE" AS A SPACE FILLER, TO INDICATE DIRECT SPEECH, ETC. -- RACISM and BIGOTRY -- Racism -- Bigotry -- SCHIZOPHRENIA -- TERRORISM -- Chapter 5: Look-Alikes -- ADAPT or ADOPT -- Adapt -- Adopt -- ADVERSE or AVERSE -- Adverse, Adversity -- Averse, Aversion -- ADVICE or ADVISE -- Advice -- Advise -- AFFECT or EFFECT -- The Usual Meanings of Affect and Effect -- Affect -- Effect -- Less Common Meanings of Affect and Effect -- Affect as a Noun -- Effect as a Verb -- AID or AIDE -- Aid -- Aide -- ALL READY or ALREADY -- All Ready -- Already -- ALL RIGHT or ALRIGHT -- ALL TOGETHER or ALTOGETHER -- All Together -- Altogether -- A LOT or ALLOT -- A Lot -- Allot -- ALTAR or ALTER -- Altar -- Alter -- ALUMNUS, ALUMNI, ALUMNA, ALUMNAE -- AMBIGUOUS or AMBIVALENT -- Ambiguous -- Ambivalent -- AMEND or EMEND -- Amend, Amendment -- Emend, Emendation -- AMIABLE or AMICABLE -- Amiable -- Amicable -- ANY MORE or ANYMORE -- Any More -- Anymore -- ANY ONE or ANYONE -- Any One -- Anyone -- ANY WAY or ANYWAY -- Any Way -- Anyway -- APOCALYPTIC or APOCRYPHAL -- Apocalyptic -- Apocryphal -- ASSURE, ENSURE, or INSURE -- Assure -- Ensure -- Insure -- AWHILE or A WHILE -- Awhile -- A While -- BACKWARD or BACKWARDS -- BESIDE or BESIDES -- Beside -- Besides -- BIANNUAL or SEMIANNUAL, BIWEEKLY or SEMIWEEKLY -- BIBLE: CAPITALIZED OR NOT -- Bible (Capitalized) -- bible (Not Capitalized) -- BLOC or BLOCK -- Bloc -- Block -- BORN or BORNE -- Born -- Borne -- CAPITAL or CAPITOL -- Capital -- Capitol.

CITE or SITE -- Cite -- Site -- COMPLEMENT or COMPLIMENT -- Complement -- Compliment -- CONNOTATION or DENOTATION -- Connotation -- Denotation -- COUNCIL or COUNSEL -- Council -- Counsel -- DISCREET or DISCRETE -- Discreet -- Discrete -- Discretion -- DIVED or DOVE -- Dived -- Dove -- E-MAIL or EMAIL -- EMIGRATE, EMIGRATION, IMMIGRATE, IMMIGRANT -- Emigrate, Emigration -- Immigrate, Immigrant -- EMPATHY or SYMPATHY -- Empathy -- Sympathy -- ENERGIZE or ENERVATE -- Energize -- Enervate -- ENVELOP or ENVELOPE -- Envelop -- Envelope -- EVERY DAY or EVERYDAY -- Every Day -- Everyday -- EVERY ONE or EVERYONE -- Every One -- Everyone -- EVOKE or INVOKE -- Evoke -- Invoke -- EXPLICIT or IMPLICIT -- Explicit -- Implicit -- FAZE or PHASE -- Faze -- Phase -- FLAUNT or FLOUT -- Flaunt -- flout -- HARDY or HEARTY -- Hardy -- Hearty -- HOLOCAUST: CAPITALIZED OR NOT? -- HURDLE or HURTLE -- Hurdle -- Hurtle -- IMMANENT, IMMINENT, or EMINENT -- Immanent -- Imminent -- Eminent -- IN TO or INTO -- In To -- Into -- IT'S or ITS -- It's -- Its -- LOOSE or LOSE -- Loose -- Lose -- MEAN or MEDIAN -- MYSTERIOUS or MYSTICAL -- Mysterious -- Mystical, Mysticism -- PASSED or PAST -- Passed -- Past -- PRINCIPAL or PRINCIPLE -- Principal -- Principle -- PROPHECY or PROPHESY -- Prophecy -- Prophesy -- RAVAGE or RAVISH -- Ravage -- Ravish -- REGARD or REGARDS -- Regard -- Regards -- ROUT or ROUTE -- Rout -- Route -- SET or SIT -- Set -- Sit -- STATIONARY or STATIONERY -- Stationary -- Stationery -- THAN or THEN -- Than -- Then -- THEIR, THERE, or THEY'RE -- Their -- There -- They're -- WHO'S or WHOSE -- Who's -- Whose -- Can Whose Refer to Things? -- YOU'RE or YOUR -- You're -- Your -- Chapter 6: Plurals -- NATIVE ENGLISH WORDS THAT CHANGE THEIR VOWELS TO FORM PLURALS -- NATIVE ENGLISH NOUNS THAT ADD -EN TO FORM PLURALS -- PLURALS OF WORDS THAT END IN -F OR -FE.

PLURALS OF NOUNS THAT END IN -I -- PLURALS OF NOUNS THAT END IN -O -- PLURALS OF WORDS THAT END IN -Y -- PLURALS OF WORDS THAT END WITH THE SOUND DJ, KS, S, SH, TCH, OR Z -- PLURALS OF LATIN AND GREEK WORDS -- WORDS THAT DON'T TAKE LATIN PLURAL ENDINGS -- PLURALS OF FRENCH WORDS -- PLURALS OF HEBREW WORDS -- PLURAL NOUNS WITH THE SAME SPELLING AS THE SINGULAR FORMS -- COLLECTIVE WORDS FOR ANIMALS -- SINGULAR NOUNS THAT HAVE PLURAL FORMS -- NOUNS THAT LOOK PLURAL BUT TAKE SINGULAR VERBS -- WORDS THAT LOOK PLURAL BUT TAKE EITHER SINGULAR OR PLURAL VERBS, DEPENDING ON THE CONTEXT: ECONOMICS, POLITICS, STATISTICS (OR, TOPICS TO AVOID OVER A ROMANTIC DINNER) -- PLURALS OF PEOPLE'S NAMES -- PLURALS OF COMPOUND WORDS -- PLURALS OF DATES, NUMBERS, LETTERS, AND ABBREVIATIONS -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Select Bibliography -- Books -- Dictionaries and Databases -- Index.

A guide to English grammar and usage for the twenty-first century, pairing grammar rules with interesting and humorous quotations from American popular culture.

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