This user-friendly book prepares students for the language and verbal ability section of the Common Admission Test. Designed to clear the confusion and chaos involved in mastering English, the lucid, step-by-step approach of concepts and their applied aspects in this text makes for an easy learning experience. The rules of grammar are dissected and explained, and the many exceptions to them are examined, ensuring that the reader has a firm foundation the English usage. Table Of Contents: Usage Notes on Nouns Usage Notes on Determiners Usage Notes on Pronouns Usage Notes on Adjectives and Adverbs Usage Notes on Verbs Usage Notes on Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs Usage Notes on Conjunctions Subject?Verb Agreement Modifiers Parallelism Redundancy and Wordiness Confused words Punctuation