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III. LESSON 1 | GRAMMAR AND USAGE................................................................... 23 A. Subject-Verb Agreement (Item #1) ....................................................................................... 24 1. Material Inserted Between Subject and Verb .......................................... (Items #2–7) .......................................................................................... 24–25 2. Inverted Sentence Structure (Items #8–9) ...........................................25 3. Compound Subjects (Items #10–12) .......................................................25 B. Pronoun Usage ...................................................................................................................... 26 1. Pronouns Must Have Antecedents (Items #13–14) .............................26 2. Antecedents Must Be Clear (Item #15) ..................................................26 3. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement (Items #16–19) ................................26 4. Pronouns Must Have Proper Case (Items #20–21) ............................ 27 C. Adjectives versus Adverbs .................................................................................................. 27 1. Adjectives Modify Nouns; Adverbs Modify Verbs, D. Double Negatives (Items #29–30) ...................................................................................... 28 E. Nouns and Noun Clauses (Items #31–33) .......................................................................... 28 F. Faulty or Illogical Comparisons (Items #34–38) ............................................................... 29 G. Verb Tense .............................................................................................................................. 29 1. Principal Parts of Verbs (Items #39–41) ......................................... 29–30 2. When to Use the Perfect Tenses (Items #42–44) ...............................30 3. The Subjunctive Mood (Items #45–46) .................................................30 4. Sequence and Verb Tense (Items #47–50) ................................... 30–31 H. Diction....................................................................................................................................... 31 IV. LESSON 2 | SENTENCE STRUCTURE ................................................................. 32 A. Run-On Sentences (Items #1–2) ........................................................................................... 32 B. Comma Splices (Items #3–4) ................................................................................................ 32 C. Fragments (Items #5–6) ........................................................................................................ 33 D. Problems of Coordination and Subordination (Items #7–14) ................................... 33–34 E. Faulty Parallelism (Items #15–17) ......................................................................................... 34 F. Incomplete Split Constructions (Items #18–19) ................................................................. 34 G. Misplaced Modifiers (Items #20–22) .................................................................................. 35 H. Unintended Meanings (Items #23–24) ............................................................................... 35 V. LESSON 3 | PUNCTUATION.................................................................................. 36 A. Commas (Items #1–20) ................................................................................................... 36–39 B. Semicolons (Items #21–25) ................................................................................................... 39 C. Colons (Items #26–27) .......................................................................................................... 40 1. Wrong Preposition (Items #51–52) .......................................................... 31 2. Wrong Word Choice (Items #53–54) ....................................................... 31 3. Gerund versus Infinitive (Items #55–56) ................................................ 31 Adjectives, and Other Adverb (Items #22– 23) .................................. 27 2. Linking Verbs (Items #24–25) .................................................................. 27 3. Watch for Adjectives Posing as Adverbs (Items #26–28) ........ 27–28