Full Description
English Brushup 6e offers a brief and inexpensive guide to the grammar, punctuation, and usage skills that students need most. It offers a combination of features not found in other texts. Its focus is on important skills, self-teaching approach, reasonable size, and outstanding instructor's supplements.
Contents
To the Instructor Introduction Why Brush Up Your English? How English Brushup Works An Introduction to Grammar: The Parts of Speech Part One: Sixteen Basic Skills 1 Subjects and Verbs 2 More about Verbs 3 Subject-Verb Agreement 4 Sentence Types 5 Fragments 6 Run-Ons and Comma Splices 7 Pronouns 8 Comma 9 Apostrophe 10 Quotation Marks11 Other Punctuation Marks 12 Capital Letters 13 Homonyms 14 Word Choice 15 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 16 Parallelism Part Two: Extending the Skills 17 Paper Form 18 Spelling19 Pronoun Types 20 Adjectives and Adverbs 21 Numbers and Abbreviations 22 Usage 23 Mixed Constructions 24 More about Subjects and Verbs 25 Even More about Verbs 26 More about Subject-Verb Agreement 27 More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices 28 More about the Comma 29 More about the Apostrophe 30 More about Quotation Marks 31 More about Punctuation Marks 32 More about Capital Letters 33 More about Homonyms 34 More about Word Choice Part Three: Applying the Skills Combined Mastery Tests Editing Tests Limited Answer Key Index Correction Symbols Inside front coverSpelling List Inside back coverNER(01): WOW
