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