English Brushup - Brossura

Langan, John; Goldstein, Janet M.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0072818905 ISBN 13: 9780072818901

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2002

Riassunto

This quick and and practical guide to grammar, punctuation, and usage skills contains important features that distinguish it from other grammar workbooks. The text's three-part format highlights the 16 most vital grammar skills up front, leaving the rest of the text for secondary topics and additional grammar activities. A self-teaching approach enables students to see exactly what they need to brush up on, and gives them focused examples and practice exercises to speed them to mastery. Finally, the manageable size and short, well-organized chapters give students just the coverage they need.

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L'autore:

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College for more than 25 years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing instructive materials that are clear and lively. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously. While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and conveying to nonreaders the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit Townsend Librarya collection of more than 100 new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age.

Contenuti:

PART ONE: SIXTEEN BASIC SKILLS

1: Subjects and Verbs

2: More About Verbs

3: Subject-Verb Agreement

4: Sentence Types

5: Fragments

6: Run-Ons

7: Pronouns

8: Comma

9: Apostrophe

10: Quotation Marks

11: Other Punctuation Marks

12: Homonyms

13: Capital Letters

14: Word Choice

15: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

16: Parallelism

PART TWO: EXTENDING THE SKILLS

17: Paper Form

18: Spelling

19: Pronoun Types

20: Adjectives and Adverbs

21: Numbers and Abbreviations

22: Usage

23: More About Subjects and Verbs

24: Even More About Verbs

25: More About Subject-Verb Agreement

26: More About Run-Ons

27: More About the Comma

28: More About the Apostrophe

29: More About Quotation Marks

30: More About Punctuation Marks

31: More About Homonyms

32: More About Capital Letters

33: More About Word Choice

PART THREE: APPLYING THE SKILLS: Combined Mastery Tests, Editing Tests.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0072818905
• ISBN 13: 9780072818901
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 249