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Naming The Parts | |
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Subjects and Verbs | |
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Modifiers | |
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Connectors | |
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Sentence Practice: Embedding Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositional Phrases | |
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Paragraph Practice: Narrating an Event | |
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Practice Test | |
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Understanding Sentence Patterns | |
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Clauses | |
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Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences | |
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Fragments, Fused Sentences, and Comma Splices | |
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Sentence Practice: Combining Main and Subordinate Clauses | |
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Paragraph Practice: Describing a Place | |
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Practice Test | |
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Improving Sentence Patterns | |
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Modifying with Participial and Infinitive Phrases | |
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Modifying with Adjective Clauses and Appositives | |
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Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
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Sentence Practice: Using Participial and Infinitive Phrases, Appositives, and Adjective Clauses | |
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Essay and Paragraph Practice: Using Examples | |
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Practice Test | |
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Lining Up The Parts Of A Sentence | |
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Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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Pronoun Agreement and Reference | |
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Pronoun Case | |
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Sentence Practice: Using Transitions | |
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Essay and Paragraph Practice: Explaining Causes and Effects | |
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Practice Test | |
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Using Punctuation and Capitalization | |
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Using Commas | |
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Other Punctuation Marks | |
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Titles, Capitalization, and Numbers | |
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Sentence Practice: Sentence Variety | |
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Essay and Paragraph Practice: Comparing and Contrasting | |
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Choosing the Right Words and Spelling Them Correctly | |
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Irregular Verbs | |
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Commonly Confused Words | |
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Spelling Rules | |
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Sentence Practice: Effective and Meaningful Sentences | |
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Essay and Paragraph Practice: Expressing an Opinion | |
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Practice Test | |
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Readings For Writers | |
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Strategies for Successful Reading | |
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Sample Reading Selection | |
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James A | |
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Herrick, Kill Your Television | |
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Narrating an Event | |
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Langston Hughes, Salvation | |
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Roger Hoffman, The Dare | |
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Laura Rowley, As They Say, Drugs Kill | |
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Describing a Place | |
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Annie Dillard, Tinker Creek | |
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Luis Torres, Los Chinos Discover el Barrio | |
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William Least Heat-Moon, In the Land of Coke-Cola | |
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Using Examples | |
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Margo Kaufman, My Way! Jon Katz, How Boys Become Men | |
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Perri Klass, She's Your Basic L.O.L. in N.A.D. Explaining Causes and Effects. Brent Staples, Black Men and Public Space. Diana Bletter, I Refuse to Live in Fear | |
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Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies | |
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Comparing and Contrasting | |
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Rose del Castillo Guilbault, Americanization Is Tough on Macho | |
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Ellen Goodman, The Just-Right Wife | |
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Charles Krauthammer, The New Prohibitionism | |
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Expressing an Opinion | |
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Andrew Sullivan, Let Gays Marry | |
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The Media's Image of Arabs | |
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Barbara Ehrenreich, In Defense of Splitting Up | |
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Practice Final Examination | |
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Appendix | |
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Working with ESL Issues | |
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Count and Noncount Nouns | |
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Articles with Count and Noncount Nouns | |
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Subjects | |
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Helping Verbs and Main Verbs | |
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Two-Word Verbs | |
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Adjectives in the Correct Order | |
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Answers to Practices | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |