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Grammar and Usage, Naturally

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ISBN-10: 1285445864

ISBN-13: 9781285445861

Edition: 2015

Authors: Larry Barkley, Christine Sandoval

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Master the skills of clear and effective writing with GRAMMAR AND USAGE, NATURALLY. Class-tested by students like you, this easy-to-understand book offers clear, detailed explanations using correct grammar terminology and multiple practice sets to help you build the grammar knowledge you need to be a successful writer--skills you'll take with you through your academic career and beyond. "Components at Work" features give you lots of practice and combine concepts cumulative to that chapter. You also practice grammar skills in conjunction with reading and writing skills, reinforcing your skill set and building your confidence as a reader and writer.
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Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Publication date: 1/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Christine Sandoval, an Associate Professor of English, has been teaching at Riverside City College in California for sixteen years. She has taught creative writing and literary magazine production, various literature courses, and college level composition, but her true passion is developmental English. During her tenure at RCC, she has been actively involved in creating the learning communities program CAP (Community for Academic Progress), as well as a supplemental instructional leader program. Her most recent project, Completion Counts, involves working collaboratively with high school English teachers to better prepare students for college level reading and writing. Along with her…    

Preface
To the Instructor: Cultivating Your Students' Growth
To the Student: Planting the Seeds of Your Success
The Fundamentals
Your Grammatical Roots: Nouns, Pronouns, and Verbs
Nous
Pronouns
Verbs
Components at Work
Cultivating Your Grammatical
Adjective and Adverbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Components at Work
Cultivating Your Grammatical
Conjunctions, Prepositions, and Interjections
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Interjections
Components at Work
Subjects
Single Subjects
Compound Subjects
Subject Pronouns
Components at Work
Subjects That Don't Look Like Subjects
Indefinite Pronouns
The Understood You of Imperatives
Verbals: Gerunds and Infinitives
Components at Work
Verbs
Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Helping (Auxiliary) Verbs
Components at Work
Irregular Verbs
Principal Parts of the Verb
Three Pairs of Troublesome Irregular Verbs
Components at Work
Subject-Verb Agreement
Subject-Verb Agreement Rules
Components at Work
Clauses
Clauses
Adjective and Adverb Subordinate Clauses
Punctuating Adverb Clauses
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Adjective-Subordinate Clauses
Sentence Combining and Adjective and Adverb Subordinate Clauses
Components at Work
Reviewing Your Growth
Parts of Speech
Subjects and Verbs
Subjects That Don't Look Like Subjects and Verbs
Clauses
Reviewing Your Growth
The Elements Of Composition
Writing Paragraphs
The Paragraph
The Topic and Topic Sentence
Direct and Climactic Paragraphs
Unity
Support
Coherence
Audience and Audience Analysis
The Purpose or Intent of a Paragraph
Persuasion
Inventing and Organizing
The Writing Process
Inventing
Organizing
Drafting, Revising, and Editing
Drafting
Revising
Editing and Proofreading
Submitting Your Paper
Enhancing The Fundamentals
Verb Phrases: Infinitives and Participial Phrases
Infinitive Phrases
Participial Phrases
Sentence Combining and Sentence Variety
Noun Phrases: Prepositional, Absolute, and Appositive
Prepositional Phrase
Absolute Phrase
Appositive Phrase
Components and Work
Simple and Compound Sentences
Simple Sentence
Compound Sentence
Simple and Compound Sentence Combining
Components at Work
Complex and Compound Sentences
Complex Sentence
Compound-Complex Sentence
Sentence Combining and Comples and Compound-Complex Sentences
Components at Work
Verb Tenses and Mood
Twelve Active Verb Tenses
Verbs and Mood
Components at Work
Active and Passive Voice and Parallel Structure
Active Voice and Passive Voice
Parallel Structure
Components at Work
Punctuation Marks
Commas
Semicolon
Colon
Apostrophe
Dash
Quotation Marks
Hyphen
Exclamation Mark
Components at Work
Appendixes
Capitalization
Fundamental Spelling Rules
Pronouns
Common Writing Errors
Confusing Words
Glossary of Grammatical Terms