- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Author’s Note
- Foreword
- How Do We Learn to Speak Correctly?
- Pretest
- Grammar Review
- CHAPTER 1 - Perplexing Pronouns
- CHAPTER 2 - Vexing Verbs
- CHAPTER 3 - Ambiguous Agreements
- CHAPTER 4 - Mangled Modifiers
- CHAPTER 5 - Problem Prepositions
- CHAPTER 6 - Confused Connections
- CHAPTER 7 - Puzzling Plurals
- CHAPTER 8 - Mixing up Words That Sound the Same
- 82. Accept vs. Except
- 83. Advice vs. Advise
- 84. Affect vs. Effect
- 85. Amoral vs. Immoral
- 86. Averse vs. Adverse
- 87. Beside vs. Besides
- 88. Biannually vs. Biennially
- 89. Climatic vs. Climactic
- 90. Could of vs. Could have
- 91. Elude vs. Allude
- 92. Imminent vs. Eminent
- 93. Ingenious vs. Ingenuous
- 94. Jibe vs. Jive
- 95. Tack vs. Tact
- 96. Tortuous vs. Torturous
- CHAPTER 9 - Mixing up Words That Look the Same
- 97. Adapt vs. Adopt
- 98. Allusion vs. Illusion vs. Delusion
- 99. Assignment vs. Assignation
- 100. Childlike vs. Childish
- 101. Continual vs. Continuous
- 102. Creditable vs. Credible vs. Credulous
- 103. Incredible vs. Incredulous
- 104. Elegy vs. Eulogy
- 105. Epitaph vs. Epithet
- 106. Flaunt vs. Flout
- 107. Luxurious vs. Luxuriant
- 108. Morale vs. Moral
- 109. Periodic vs. Periodical
- 110. Persecute vs. Prosecute
- 111. Proceed vs. Precede
- 112. Respectful vs. Respective
- 113. Sensuous vs. Sensual
- 114. Simple vs. Simplistic
- 115. Uninterested vs. Disinterested
- CHAPTER 10 - Mixing up Words Whose Meanings Are Related
- 116. Annoy vs. Irritate vs. Aggravate
- 117. Burglary vs. Robbery
- 118. Can vs. May
- 119. Compose vs. Comprise
- 120. Convince vs. Persuade
- 121. Eager vs. Anxious
- 122. Explicit vs. Implicit
- 123. Figuratively vs. Literally vs. Virtually
- 124. Imply vs. Infer
- 125. Kind of/Sort of vs. Rather
- 126. Let vs. Leave
- 127. Like vs. As/As If
- 128. Likely vs. Apt vs. Liable
- 129. Percent vs. Percentage
- 130. Quote vs. Quotation
- 131. Semiannually vs. Semimonthly vs. Semiweekly
- 132. Serve vs. Service
- 133. Take vs. Bring
- 134. Use vs. Utilize
- Chapter 11 - Made-up Words
- CHAPTER 12 - Wasteful Words and Infelicities
- CHAPTER 13 - Mispronounced Words
- 149. Air vs. Err
- 150. Anyways vs. Anyway
- 151. A ways vs. A way
- 152. Cent vs. Cents
- 153. Libary vs. Library
- 154. Reconize vs. Recognize
- 155. Stricly vs. Strictly
- 156. Heighth vs. Height
- 157. Athaletics vs. Athletics
- 158. Goverment vs. Government
- 159. Irrevelant vs. Irrelevant
- 160. Temperment vs. Temperament
- 161. Lightening vs. Lightning
- 162. Mischevious vs. Mischievous
- 163. Grevious vs. Grievous
- 164. Histry vs. History
- 165. Nucular vs. Nuclear
- 166. Perscription vs. Prescription
- 167. Prespiration vs. Perspiration
- 168. Disasterous vs. Disastrous
- 169. Accidently vs. Accidentally
- 170. Representive vs. Representative
- 171. Preform vs. Perform
- 172. Asterik vs. Asterisk
- 173. Artic vs. Arctic
- 174. Anartica vs. Antarctica
- 175. Expresso vs. Espresso
- Review Tests
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