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Basic grammar and usage / Penelope Choy, Dorothy Goldbart Clark.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Australia ; Boston, MA : Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: Eighth editionDescription: xii, 338 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1428211551
  • 9781428211551
Other title:
  • Basic grammar & usage [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425 22
Contents:
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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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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