Grammar and other rules HOW TO MASTER SYNTAX GRAMMAR PUNCTUATION MECHANICS TECHNICQUES STYLE Adjectives Adverbs Articles Conjunctions Interjections Nouns Prepositions Pronouns Verbs Colon Comma Dash Ellipsis Exclamation Point Hyphen Parentheses Period Question Mark Quotation Marks Semicolon Slash Apostrophe Abbreviations Contractions Spelling Capitalization Compound Words Hyperbole Onomatopoeia Idioms Similes Metaphors Passive Voice Singular They Parallelism Mixed Constructions