Essentials of English
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Essentials of English
Barron's, c2010
6th ed
- : pbk
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"Formerly published as: Essentials of effective writing"--t. p. verso
"A practical handbook covering all the rules of English grammar and writing style"--Cover
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- The word : The noun ; The pronoun ; The verb ; The adjective and the adverb ; The verbal ; Prepositions and conjunctions ; Sentence connectors ; The interjection
- The sentence and its parts : The subject and the predicate
- Sentence errors : Sentence fragments ; Run-on sentence: comma fault ; The fused sentence
- Logic and clarity : Agreement of subject and verb ; Agreement of pronoun and antecedent ; Faulty pronoun reference ; Case ; Dangling modifiers ; Misplaced modifiers ; Split constructions ; Faulty comparison ; Omission of necessary words
- Emphasis, consistence, and appropriateness : Emphasis ; Consistency ; Variety
- Punctuation : Terminal punctuation ; The comma ; Misuse of the comma ; The semicolon ; The colon ; The dash ; The hyphen ; The apostrophe ; Parentheses and brackets ; Quotations and quotation marks ; Italics
- The paragraph : The paragraph defined
- The writer's approach to the subject : Select and adapt a subject with care ; Determine your fundamental purpose in writing ; Gather and record your material ; Make a plan of your writing ; Write the essay from the plan ; Begin and end the paper properly
- Glossary of words and phrases frequently misused
- Which prepositions go with which verbs?
- Conjugations and principal parts
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Updated and expanded, this book fills a double purpose as both a useful classroom text and a practical style manual for writers. It reviews English grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, and correct word usage, and advises on adapting writing style to different formats, including both classroom assignments, business documents, and electronic communication. Readers will also find detailed instruction on essay writing, starting with outlining a subject, and going on to writing a draft and then editing and polishing it into a finished composition. New in this edition is a sample research paper that uses online sources and follows the widely popular MLA style for footnotes.
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