Nonfiction
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ESL/REFERENCE/WRITING/WRITING
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80 pages ; 28 cm
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"Item #2859"--Page 4 of cover
To the student -- Test and assess. Self-test ; Self-test answers and explanations ; Assess yourself -- Build skills in sentence structure. Basic sentence parts ; Simple and compound sentences ; Complex sentences ; Sentence fragments ; Run-ons and comma splices ; Parallelism and coordination ; Misplaced modifiers ; Dangling modifiers ; Stretch your skills -- Build skills in grammar and usage. Nouns and personal pronouns ; Other kinds of pronouns ; Verb tenses and forms ; Irregular verbs ; The perfect tenses ; Subject-verb agreement I ; Subject-verb agreement II ; Subject-verb agreement III ; Pronoun-antecedent agreement ; Clear antecedents ; Informal and nonstandard usage ; Wordy and awkward writing ; Stretch your skills -- Build skills in mechanics. Capitalization ; Commas ; Semicolons ; Plurals and possessives ; Words that sound alike ; Stretch your skills -- Answers and explanations