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ISBN10: 0073533327 | ISBN13: 9780073533322
ISBN10: 0073533327
ISBN13: 9780073533322
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John Langan's English Essentials offers guidance through the grammar, punctuation, and usage skills needed for success in college and beyond. In short, English Essentials is an efficient, accessible, and helpful guide to mastering practical English skills.The book is divided into four parts -- Part One covers fifteen basic skills; Part Two offers more in-depth information about those and other skills; Part Three presents the essential skills of proofreading, and Part Four covers spelling improvement and dictionaryuse. This student-friendly organization and structure makes the book easy to navigate and a flexible guide.Each section provides essential instructions followed by ampleactivities to encourage learning in the best possible way: by doing.
Preface to the Instructor IntroductionAbout the BookBecoming a Better WriterWriting Assignments Part One: Fifteen Basic Skills Preview 1: Parts of Speech2: Subjects and Verbs 3: Irregular Verbs 4: Subject-Verb Agreement 5: Sentence Types 6: Fragments I 7: Fragments II 8: Run-Ons and Comma Splices I 9: Run-Ons and Comma Splices II 10: The Comma 11: The Apostrophe 12: Quotation Marks 13: Homonyms 14: Capital Letters 15: Parallelism Part Two: Extending the Skills Preview 16: Preparing a Paper 17: Punctuation Marks 18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
About the BookBecoming a Better WriterWriting Assignments Part One: Fifteen Basic Skills Preview 1: Parts of Speech2: Subjects and Verbs 3: Irregular Verbs 4: Subject-Verb Agreement 5: Sentence Types 6: Fragments I 7: Fragments II 8: Run-Ons and Comma Splices I 9: Run-Ons and Comma Splices II 10: The Comma 11: The Apostrophe 12: Quotation Marks 13: Homonyms 14: Capital Letters 15: Parallelism Part Two: Extending the Skills Preview 16: Preparing a Paper 17: Punctuation Marks 18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
Writing Assignments Part One: Fifteen Basic Skills Preview 1: Parts of Speech2: Subjects and Verbs 3: Irregular Verbs 4: Subject-Verb Agreement 5: Sentence Types 6: Fragments I 7: Fragments II 8: Run-Ons and Comma Splices I 9: Run-Ons and Comma Splices II 10: The Comma 11: The Apostrophe 12: Quotation Marks 13: Homonyms 14: Capital Letters 15: Parallelism Part Two: Extending the Skills Preview 16: Preparing a Paper 17: Punctuation Marks 18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
Preview 1: Parts of Speech2: Subjects and Verbs 3: Irregular Verbs 4: Subject-Verb Agreement 5: Sentence Types 6: Fragments I 7: Fragments II 8: Run-Ons and Comma Splices I 9: Run-Ons and Comma Splices II 10: The Comma 11: The Apostrophe 12: Quotation Marks 13: Homonyms 14: Capital Letters 15: Parallelism Part Two: Extending the Skills Preview 16: Preparing a Paper 17: Punctuation Marks 18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
2: Subjects and Verbs 3: Irregular Verbs 4: Subject-Verb Agreement 5: Sentence Types 6: Fragments I 7: Fragments II 8: Run-Ons and Comma Splices I 9: Run-Ons and Comma Splices II 10: The Comma 11: The Apostrophe 12: Quotation Marks 13: Homonyms 14: Capital Letters 15: Parallelism Part Two: Extending the Skills Preview 16: Preparing a Paper 17: Punctuation Marks 18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
4: Subject-Verb Agreement 5: Sentence Types 6: Fragments I 7: Fragments II 8: Run-Ons and Comma Splices I 9: Run-Ons and Comma Splices II 10: The Comma 11: The Apostrophe 12: Quotation Marks 13: Homonyms 14: Capital Letters 15: Parallelism Part Two: Extending the Skills Preview 16: Preparing a Paper 17: Punctuation Marks 18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
6: Fragments I 7: Fragments II 8: Run-Ons and Comma Splices I 9: Run-Ons and Comma Splices II 10: The Comma 11: The Apostrophe 12: Quotation Marks 13: Homonyms 14: Capital Letters 15: Parallelism Part Two: Extending the Skills Preview 16: Preparing a Paper 17: Punctuation Marks 18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
8: Run-Ons and Comma Splices I 9: Run-Ons and Comma Splices II 10: The Comma 11: The Apostrophe 12: Quotation Marks 13: Homonyms 14: Capital Letters 15: Parallelism Part Two: Extending the Skills Preview 16: Preparing a Paper 17: Punctuation Marks 18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
10: The Comma 11: The Apostrophe 12: Quotation Marks 13: Homonyms 14: Capital Letters 15: Parallelism Part Two: Extending the Skills Preview 16: Preparing a Paper 17: Punctuation Marks 18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
12: Quotation Marks 13: Homonyms 14: Capital Letters 15: Parallelism Part Two: Extending the Skills Preview 16: Preparing a Paper 17: Punctuation Marks 18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
14: Capital Letters 15: Parallelism Part Two: Extending the Skills Preview 16: Preparing a Paper 17: Punctuation Marks 18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
Part Two: Extending the Skills Preview 16: Preparing a Paper 17: Punctuation Marks 18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
16: Preparing a Paper 17: Punctuation Marks 18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
18: Pronoun Forms 19: Pronoun Problems 20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
20: Adjectives and Adverbs 21: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
22: Word Choice 23: Numbers and Abbreviations 24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
24: More about Subjects and Verbs 25: More about Subject-Verb Agreement 26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
26: More about Verbs 27: Even More about Verbs 28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
28: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 29: More about Commas 30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
30: More about Apostrophes 31: More about Quotation Marks 32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
32: More about Homonyms 33: More about Capital Letters Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
Part Three: Proofreading Preview 34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
34: Basics about Proofreading 35: Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
Part Four: Related Matters Preview 36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
36: Spelling Improvement 37: Dictionary UseIndex
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