Basic English review / Karen Schneiter Williams ; contributing author, Elaine Langlois.

Previous ed. published as: English review : English the easy way / Norman Schachter, Karen Schneiter Williams. 2005.

Includes index.

Unit 1. The Sentence -- 1. The Sentence Defined -- 2. Kinds of Sentences -- 3. Parts of Speech -- Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections -- Unit 2. Nouns -- 4. Major Classes of Nouns -- Common nouns, proper nouns, collective nouns -- 5. Plural Nouns -- Forming the plural of nouns, Words with irregular plurals, Nouns always in plural form, Plural forms with singular meaning -- 6. Nouns and the Possessive Form -- Singular possessive, Plural possessive -- Unit 3. Pronouns -- 7. Personal Pronouns -- Pronoun agreement in person, number, and gender -- Case forms of personal pronouns -- 8. Indefinite Pronouns -- 9. Relative Pronouns -- 10. Demonstrative Pronouns -- 11. Possessive Pronouns -- 12. Interrogative Pronouns -- Unit 4. Verbs -- 13. Uses of Verbs -- Verbs make statements, Verbs ask questions, Verbs give commands -- 14. Helping Verbs and Linking Verbs -- Uses of helping verbs, Verb separations, Use of linking verbs with predicate nouns, pronouns, and adjectives -- 15. Verb Agreement with Subject -- Forms of the Verb Be, Forms of the Verb Have, Plural form with compound subjects -- Singular subjects and plural modifiers, Verb agreement with indefinite pronouns, Verb agreement with There, Verb agreement with Or, Verb agreement with collective nouns -- Unit 5. The Time of Verbs -- 16. Present Tense -- Verbs in the present tense, The verb Be in the present tense, The verb Have in the present tense, The verb Do in the present tense -- 17. Past Tense -- Verbs in the past tense, The verb Be in the past tense, The verb Have in the past tense -- 18. Future Tense -- 19. Perfect Tenses -- Present perfecttense, Past perfect tense, Future perfect tense -- 20. Conjugation of Verbs -- Conjugation of the verb Visit -- Principal parts of irregular verbs -- Unit 6. Misused Verbs Or Commonly Misused Verbs -- 21. Misused Verbs -- Lie and Lay -- Sit and Set -- 22. Less Troublesome Verbs -- Shall, Should, Will, and Would -- May, Might, Can, and Could -- Leave and Let -- Teach and Learn -- Borrow and Lend -- Bring, Take, and Fetch -- Rise and Raise -- Unit 7. Adjectives and Adverbs -- 23. Adjectives -- Descriptive Adjectives, Proper Adjectives, Definite and Indefinite Adjectives, Possessive Adjectives, Demonstrative Adjectives, Nouns and Verbs Used as Adjectives, Compound Adjectives -- 24. Degrees of Comparison -- 25. Adverbs -- Adverbs of Time, Adverbs of Place, Adverbs of Manner, Adverbs of Degree, Interrogative Adverbs, Most Frequently Used Adverbs -- 26. Confusing Adjectives and Adverbs -- Good and Well, Almost and Most, Sure and Surely, Real and Very -- Unit 8. Prepositions and Conjunctions -- 27. Prepositions -- Most Frequently Used Prepositions, Uses of the Prepositional Phrase -- 28. Conjunctions -- Coordinating Conjunctions, Subordinating Conjunctions, Correlative Conjunctions -- Unit 9. Phrases and Clauses -- 29. Phrases -- Prepositional Phrases, Infinitive Phrases, Participial Phrases -- 30. Clauses -- Independent Clauses, Dependent Clauses -- Unit 10. Punctuation -- 31. The Period, The Question Mark, The Exclamation Point -- 32. The Comma -- 33. The Semicolon, The Colon, The Dash -- 34. Parentheses, The Apostrophe, Quotation Marks -- Unit 11. Number Expression and Capitalization -- 35. Expression of Numbers -- 36. Capital Letters -- 37. Word Blunders -- Who's and Whose, It's and Its, There, Their, and They're, In and Into, Beside and Besides, To, Too, and Two, Then, and Than, Between and Among, Like and As, As-As, So-As -- 38. Speech Duds -- Final Reviews 1-4 -- Appendix A. Spelling -- Appendix B. Vocabulary Practice -- Appendix C. Proofreading -- Appendix D. Writing Resources.

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