From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: A table unfolded
1. A national obsession : the Oxford comma
2. The joy of grammar vocabulary
3. “Affect” and “effect” are mean spelling trolls
4. Corrections, humility, and etiquette
8. Going farther and further
11. Please____ (lie, lay) down and read this
12. The life, times, and punctuation of the appositive
13. Weird plurals : your data ____ (is/are) givng me a headache
15. Accents keep things fresh
16. The great American spacing war
18. Contract with confidence!
19. The pleasure of pronunciation
20. I saw____ (a, an) UFO on Main Street
26. You can read this chapter in five minutes or fewer
27. Possessed by apostrophes
28. Plural possessive holiday extravaganza
30. Peripatetic past participles
31. What's passed is past
32. Gerund v. present-participle smackdown
33. Horizontal-line lessons-hyphens and dashes, A-Z
34. Good fun with bad words
36. Where’s that preposition at?
37. Faces and facets of “they”
38. The precarious case of the pronoun case
41. Punctuation location contemplation
42. Subject-verb synchronicity
45. More homophonous happenings : ‘your” and ‘their”
46. Had had, that that, do do, do be do!
47. The art of writing with your actual hand
Tabletop bibliography : what’s on the grammar table?
