English Essentials: What Every Student Needs to Know about Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage
John Langan,
Atlantic Cape Community College Beth Johnson
ISBN: 0073043265 Copyright year: 2005
Table of Contents
Preface to the Instructor
Introduction
About the Book
Becoming a Better Writer
Writing Assignments
Part One: Fourteen Basic Skills
Preview
1: Subjects and Verbs
2: Irregular Verbs
3: Subject-Verb Agreement
4: Sentence Types
5: Fragments I
6: Fragments II
7: Run-Ons and Comma Splices I
8: Run-Ons and Comma Splices II
9: The Comma
10: The Apostrophe
11: Quotation Marks
12: Homonyms
13: Capital Letters
14: Parallelism
Part Two: Extending the Skills Preview
15: Preparing a Paper
16: Punctuation Marks
17: Pronoun Forms
18: Pronoun Problems
19: Adjectives and Adverbs
20: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
21: Word Choice
22: Numbers and Abbreviations
23: More about Subjects and Verbs
24: More about Subject-Verb Agreement
25: More about Verbs
26: Even More about Verbs
27: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices
28: More about Commas
29: More about Apostrophes
30: More about Quotation Marks
31: More about Homonyms
32: More about Capital Letters
Part Three: Proofreading Preview
33: Basics about Proofreading
34: Ten Proofreading Tests
Part Four: Related Matters Preview
35: Spelling Improvement
36: Parts of Speech
37: Dictionary Use
Index
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