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[www.dummies.com](www.dummies.com and search for)[ and search for](www.dummies.com and search for) “Basic English Grammar For Dummies Cheat Sheet” in the  \nSearch box.  \nTable of Contents  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nIntroduction  \nAbout This Book  \nHow This Book Is Organized  \nFoolish Assumptions  \nConventions Used in This Book  \nIcons Used in This Book  \nBeyond the Book  \nWhere to Go From Here  \nPart 1: Getting Started with Basic English Grammar  \nChapter 1: Getting a Grip on Grammar  \nGetting to Know the Ingredients of Standard English  \nBuilding Language, Block by Block: Parts of Speech  \nMaking Sentences  \nSmall but Important: Punctuating, Capitalizing, and Spelling  \nFacing Everyday Writing Tasks  \nChapter 2: Language in Action  \nAdjusting Language to Suit Your Audience  \nGetting Help from Spelling and Grammar Checkers  \nRecognizing Your Grammar Profile  \nPart 2: Meeting the Parts of Speech  \nChapter 3: People to See, Places to Go, Things to  \nRemember: Recognizing Nouns  \nIdentifying Nouns  \nSorting Out Singular and Plural Nouns  \nAttaching “This,”“These,” and Other Words to Nouns  \nChapter 4: Perfecting Pronouns  \nReplacing Nouns with Pronouns  \nSolving the Case of Pronouns  \nForming Possessive Pronouns  \nChapter 5: Doing and Being Words: Verbs  \nSearching Out Verbs  \nAsking Questions to Find the Verb  \nTelling Time with Verbs  \nRecognizing Forms of Some Important Verbs  \nGetting Assistance from Helping Verbs  \nChapter 6: Describing with Adjectives and Adverbs  \nAdding Detail with Adjectives  \nWriting Well with Adverbs  \nChoosing between Adjectives and Adverbs  \nPlacing “a” and “an” in the Proper Place  \nMaking Comparisons with Adjectives and Adverbs  \nChapter 7: Building Relationships with Prepositions  \nRecognizing Prepositions  \nIdentifying Objects of Prepositions  \nChoosing Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions  \nPlacing Prepositional Phrases in the Proper Place  \nChapter 8: Connecting and Commenting: Conjunctions and Interjections  \nLinking Ideas with Conjunctions  \nIdentifying Interjections  \nPart 3: Creating Correct Sentences  \nChapter 9: Making Progress: Verbs Ending in –ing  \nKeeping Time with –ing Verb Forms  \nChoosing between Simple and Progressive Tenses  \nCorrectly Spelling –ing Verb Forms  \nChapter 10: Putting the Past in Order: The Perfect Tenses  \nBuilding a Bridge between the Present and the Past: Present  \nPerfect Tense  \nCreating a Timeline with Past Perfect Tense  \nBreaking the Rules: Irregular Past Forms  \nGlancing at the Future Perfect Tense  \nChapter 11: Seeking Subjects  \nLocating the Subject of a Sentence  \nMatching Subjects and Verbs Properly  \nDealing with Tricky Subjects  \nChapter 12: Adding Meaning with Complements  \nSurveying Complements  \nChoosing the Proper Complement Pronoun  \nChapter 13: Writing Complete Sentences  \nHalfway Is Not Enough: Expressing a Complete Thought  \nCooking Up a Complete Sentence: The Essential 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