Philip J. Skerry, PhD, is Emeritus Professor at Lakeland Community College, where he taught English and Film classes for over forty years. Dr. Skerry has written several books on Alfred Hitchcock and is the author of the Rowman and Littlefield book, The Rules of The Game: A Guide to Writing in Standard English (2019).
Preface: What is Standard Written American English (SWAE)?
Introduction: Why Writers Have Difficulty with SWAE.
Part I
Chapter One: The Acronym SWAE
Chapter Two: Two Major Characteristics of SWAE
Chapter Three: Elements of SWAE: The Clause
Chapter Four: Elements of SWAE: The Phrase
Chapter Five: Classifying Clauses
Chapter Six: The Flexible Clause
Chapter Seven: Verbal Phrases
Chapter Eight: Sentence Patterns
Chapter Nine: Additional Clause Patterns
Chapter Ten: The Flexible Phrase
Part II
Chapter Eleven: The Big Three
Chapter Twelve: Agreement I: Subjects and Verbs
Chapter Thirteen: Agreement II: Pronouns
Chapter Fourteen: Additional Pronoun Problems
Chapter Fifteen: Modification
Chapter Sixteen: Punctuation
Chapter Seventeen: "Form is the Shape of Content"
Epilogue: Consummatum Est
Notes
Bibliography
Author Biography
