English Brushup (Reprint) - Brossura

Langan, John; Goldstein, Janet M.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0077428366 ISBN 13: 9780077428365

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010

Riassunto

The fifth edition of English Brushup offers your student a brief and inexpensive guide to the grammar, punctuation, and usage skills they need most.

The latest edition of English Brushup offers expanded coverage of Parts of Speech. This section has now been moved to the front of the text to aid students in reviewing the basics.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for over twenty years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both subjects, he enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Glassboro State College. He also spent a year writing fiction.

Contenuti:

Introduction

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 and Comma Splices

7: Pronouns

8: Comma

9: Apostrophe

10: Quotation Marks

11: Other Punctuation Marks

12: Capital Letters

13: Homonyms

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: Mixed Constructions

24: More about Subjects and Verbs

25: Even More about Verbs

26: More about Subject-Verb Agreement

27: More about Run-Ons

28: More about the Comma

29: More about the Apostrophe

30: More about Quotation Marks

31: More about Punctuation Marks

32: More about Capital Letters

33: More about Homonyms

34: More about Word Choice

Part Three: Applying the Skills

Combined Mastery Tests

Editing Tests

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0077428366
• ISBN 13: 9780077428365
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 288