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Clouse: Jumpstart
Jumpstart!: A Workbook for Writers, 2/e
Barbara Fine Clouse
Subjects and Verbs

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The Sentence
The First Necessary Component: The Subject
The Complete Subject and the Simple Subject
  • The Simple Subject
  • The Location of the Subject
  • Action-Word Subjects
  • Subjects with Prepositional Phrases
  • Compound Subjects
  • Unstated Subjects
The Function of Verbs
  • Action Verbs
  • Linking Verbs
  • Helping Verbs
  • Compound Verbs
If English Is Your Second Language
Recharge
Getting in Gear
  • Thinking in Writing
  • Writing from Experience
  • Writing in Context








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