Basic grammar and usage / Penelope Choy, Dorothy Goldbart Clark.
Material type: TextPublisher: Australia ; Boston, MA : Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: Eighth editionDescription: xii, 338 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1428211551
- 9781428211551
- Basic grammar & usage [Cover title]
- 425 22
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 425 CHO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A454324B |
Includes index.
Unit 1. Identifying Subjects and Verbs -- 1. Sentences with One Subject and One Verb -- 2. Multiple Subjects and Verbs -- 3. Distinguishing Between Objects of Prepositions and Subjects -- 4. Main Verbs and Helping Verbs -- Unit 2. Subject Verb Agreement -- 5. Recognizing Singular and Plural Subjects and Verbs -- 6. Indefinite Pronouns as Subjects -- 7. Subjects Understood in a Special Sense -- 8. Subjects Joined by Conjunctions -- Unit 3. Identifying and Punctuating the Main Types of Sentences -- 9. Compound Sentences -- 10. Complex Sentences -- 11. Avoiding Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices -- 12. Correcting Fragments -- Unit 4. Punctuation That "Sets Off" Or Separates -- 13. Parenthetical Expressions -- 14. Appositives -- 15. Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses -- 16. Items in a Series and Dates and Addresses -- Unit 5. Pronoun Usage -- 17. Subject, Object, and Possessive Pronouns -- 18. Pronouns in Comparisons and Pronouns with -self, -selves -- 19. Agreement of Pronouns with Their Antecedents -- 20. Order of Pronouns and Spelling of Possessives -- Unit 6. Capitalization, More Punctuation, Placement of Modifiers, Parallel Structure, and Irregular Verbs -- 21. Capitalization -- 22. Additional Punctuation -- 23. Misplaced and Dangling Modifers -- 24. Parallel Structure -- 25. Irregular Verbs -- Unit 7. Paragraphs -- 26. Writing Effective Paragraphs.
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