English Essentials

Preface to the Instructor Introduction About the Book Becoming a Better Writer Writing Assignments Part One: Fifteen Basic Skills Preview 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 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 Use Index