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Student Edition
Instructor Edition
English Essentials

John Langan, Atlantic Cape Community College
Beth Johnson
Lisa Salem-Wiseman, Humber Institute of Technology

ISBN: 0070980403
Copyright year: 2009

Table of Contents



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Table of Contents (150.0K)

PART ONE: Becoming a Better Writer

1 Organizing your Writing
2 The Writing Process

PART TWO: The Basics

Objectives
Pre-test

3 Parts of Speech
4 Subjects and Verbs
5 Irregular Verbs
6 Sentence Types
7 Pronoun Forms
8 Pronoun Problems
9 Articles
10 Adjectives and Adverbs

PART THREE: Beyond the Basics

Objectives
Pre-test

11 Subject-Verb Agreement
12 Fragments
13 Run-Ons and Comma Splices
14 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
15 Parallelism

PART FOUR: Punctuation

Objectives
Pre-test

16 The Comma
17 The Apostrophe
18 Quotation Marks
19 Other Punctuation Marks

PART FIVE: Mechanics and Spelling

Objectives
Pre-test

20 Spelling Improvement
21 Commonly Confused Words
22 Word Choice
23 Capital Letters
24 Numbers and Abbreviations


PART SIX: Proofreading

Objectives
Pre-Test

25 Proofreading Your Work
26 Ten Proofreading Tests


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