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English Essentials

English Essentials

3rd Edition
By John Langan
ISBN10: 0073533327
ISBN13: 9780073533322
Copyright: 2013

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Program Details

Preface to the Instructor

Introduction

About the Book

Becoming a Better Writer

Writing Assignments

Part One: Fifteen Basic Skills

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1: Parts of Speech

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

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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

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34: Basics about Proofreading

35: Ten Proofreading Tests

Part Four: Related Matters

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36: Spelling Improvement

37: Dictionary Use

Index