Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Writers, Form A

Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Writers, Form A

John Langan McGraw-Hill 8th Edition ISBN: 9780073123745 E-ISBN: 9780077244521
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This best-selling sentence-level worktext by John Langan continues to help students master the essential grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and usage skills needed for clear, thoughtful writing. The eighth edition of Sentence Skills, Form A features new exercises and activities, a new visual program, and much more! Students that choose the VitalBook version of this title have access to powerful digital learning tools. Students can share notes with others, customize the appearance and layout of the content, and organize all their digital course materials from a single program. VitalSource is a downloadable eBook. Students can install their eBook on up to two machines. Students can also print sections of the book for maximum portability.

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Table of Contents

  • Front Matter
  • Effective Writing
  • 1 Learning Sentence Skills
  • 2 A Brief Guide to Effective Writing
  • 3 The Writing Process
  • Sentence Skills
  • 4 Subjects and Verbs
  • 5 Fragments
  • 6 Run-Ons
  • 7 Sentence Variety I
  • 8 Standard English Verbs
  • 9 Irregular Verbs
  • 10 Subject-Verb Agreement
  • 11 Consistent Verb Tense
  • 12 Additional Information about Verbs
  • 13 Pronoun Reference, Agreement, and Point of View
  • 14 Pronoun Types
  • 15 Adjectives and Adverbs
  • 16 Misplaced Modifiers
  • 17 Dangling Modifiers
  • 18 Faulty Parallelism
  • 19 Sentence Variety II
  • 20 Paper Format
  • 21 Capital Letters
  • 22 Numbers and Abbreviations
  • 23 End Marks
  • 24 Apostrophe
  • 25 Quotation Marks
  • 26 Comma
  • 27 Other Punctuation Marks
  • 28 Dictionary Use
  • 29 Spelling Improvement
  • 30 Omitted Words and Letters
  • 31 Commonly Confused Words
  • 32 Effective Word Choice
  • Reinforcement of the Skills
  • 33 Combined Mastery Tests
  • 34 Editing and Proofreading Tests
  • 35 Combined Editing Tests
  • Appendixes
  • Credits

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