Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Navigation Tips -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Actants, Actions, Ongoing States: Nouns, Verbs, and the Sentences They Form -- Chapter 2. Words That Modify and Orient: Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Prepositions, Articles, Interjections -- Chapter 3. Who Is He/She? Pronouns -- Chapter 4. Punctuation, Part I-The Comma: Promiscuous Uses -- Chapter 5. Punctuation, Part II-The Colon, Semicolon, and More Mysteries of Punctuation -- Chapter 6. Diction: Sentences as Clockwork -- Appendix I: Fifteen Myths of Digital-Age English -- Appendix II: Using This Book to Teach College Writing: A Microguide -- Fifty Key Terms: A Microglossary -- Works Cited -- Index