Those Little Things:
A Summary of Common Usage Questions

Table of Contents

I.	The School of Overwriting (Alternatives to legalese and other stuffy words)	2
II.	The Little Words that Terrorize Us (Commonly misused words)	8
III.	What the Grammar Police Get Wrong	11
IV.	Horrible Homonyms (Things spell-check will never tell you)	12
V.	Numbed by Numbers	28
VI.	The Court of Capitalization	13
VII.	Petrified by Punctuation	13
VIII.	Subliminal Fear of Subparagraphs	19
IX.	Wounded by Bullets	20
X.	Pronoun Panic	22
XI.	Singularly Confused About Plural Problems	22
XII.	Petrified by Possessives	23