APA Style: Laura DeVeau, “The Role of Spirituality and Religion in Mental Health”

APA Style: Laura DeVeau, “The Role of Spirituality and Religion in Mental Health”

Chapter 14 Understanding Verbs

Regular Verbs

Irregular Verbs

Problem Verbs: Be

Problem Verbs: Can and Will

Regular Past Participles

Irregular Past Participles

Present Perfect and Past Perfect Tenses

Chapter 15 Understanding Nouns and Pronouns

Identifying Antecedents

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Indefinite Pronoun Antecedents

Revising for Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Personal Pronouns

Pronoun Case

Pronoun Case: Who/Whom

Reflexive Pronouns

Chapter 16 Understanding Adjectives and Adverbs

Good and Well

Identifying Adjectives and Adverbs

Comparatives and Superlatives

Good/Well and Bad/Badly

Chapter 17 Writing Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences

Identifying Subjects

Identifying Prepositional Phrases

Identifying Verbs

Using Coordinating Conjunctions

Using Semicolons

Using Transitional Words and Phrases

Using Subordinating Conjunctions

Using Relative Pronouns

Chapter 18 Writing Varied Sentences

Identifying Sentence Types

Combining Sentences

Chapter 19 Using Parallelism

Recognizing Parallel Structure

Using Parallel Structure

Chapter 20 Using Words Effectively

Using Specific Words

Avoiding Clichés and Sexist Language

Commonly Confused Words

Chapter 21 Run-Ons and Comma Splices

Recognizing Run-Ons

Correcting Run-Ons

Chapter 22 Fragments

Correcting Fragments

Recognizing Fragments

Chapter 23 Subject-Verb Agreement

Subject-Verb Agreement

Indefinite Pronoun Subjects

Verbs before Subjects

Chapter 24 Illogical Shifts

Illogical Shifts

Shifts in Tense

Shift in Person and Voice

Chapter 25 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

Correcting Misplaced Modifiers

Correcting Dangling Modifiers

Chapter 26 Using Commas

Correct Comma Use

Types of Comma Use

Commas in a Series

Commas with Introductory Phrases

Commas with Transitional Words and Phrases

Commas with Appositives

Commas with Nonrestrictive Clauses

Commas in Dates and Addresses

Chapter 27 Using Apostrophes

Apostrophes in Contractions and Possessives

Chapter 28 Understanding Mechanics

Capitalizing Proper Nouns

Punctuating Direct Quotations

Setting Off Titles

Hyphens

Abbreviations

Numbers

Colons

Dashes and Parentheses

Semicolons, Colons, Dashes, and Parentheses

Semicolons