One day in the life of the English language: a microcosmic usage handbook

Introduction

Actants, actions, ongoing states ; nouns, verbs, and the sentences they form

Words that modify and orient : adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, articles, interjections

Who is he/she? : pronouns

Punctuation, part I : the comma

promiscuous uses

Punctuation, part II : the colon, semicolon, and more mysteries of punctuation

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.