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| Preface | |
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| Getting Started: Computers, Grammar, and Paragraphs. Standard English: Who Needs It? Writing with the Computer. Writing Sentences | |
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| The Paragraph: An Overview | |
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| Writing Paragraphs | |
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| The Parts of Speech: A Review | |
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| The Noun | |
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| The Pronoun | |
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| The Verb | |
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| The Adjective | |
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| The Adverb | |
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| The Preposition | |
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| The Conjunction | |
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| The Interjection | |
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| Language Tips | |
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| Writing Sentences | |
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| Review Test 2-A: Parts of Speech | |
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| Review Test 2-B: Parts of Speech | |
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| Writing Paragraphs | |
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| The Topic Sentence and Unity in the Paragraph | |
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| Finding the Subject and the Verb in the Sentence | |
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| The Subject and the Verb | |
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| Finding the Verb | |
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| Action Verbs | |
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| Linking Verbs | |
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| Words Mistaken for the Verb | |
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| Finding the Subject | |
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| Subjects and Other Words in the Sentence | |
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| Simple and Complete Subjects | |
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| Compound Subjects | |
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| Subjects in Inverted Sentences | |
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| Subjects with Verbs in Active and Passive Voice | |
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| Subjects and Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Subjects and Verbs in Compound and Complex Sentences | |
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| Language Tips | |
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| Writing Sentences | |
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| Review Test 3-A: Finding the Subject and the Verb in the Sentence | |
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| Review Text 3-B: Finding the Subject and the Verb in the Sentence | |
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| Writing Paragraphs | |
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| Coherence in the Paragraph Through Chronological Order | |
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| Making the Subject and Verb Agree | |
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| Language Tips | |
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| Writing Sentences | |
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| Review Test 4-A: Making the Subject and Verb Agree | |
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| Review Test 4-B: Making the Subject and Verb Agree | |
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| Writing Paragraphs | |
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| Coherence in the Paragraph Through Spatial Order | |
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| Common Errors Involving Verbs | |
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| Regular Verbs | |
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| Irregular Verbs | |
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| Suggestions for Using Irregular Verbs | |
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| Using the Correct Tense | |
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| Shifts in Tense | |
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| Two Pairs of Irregular Verbs | |
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| Language Tips | |
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| Writing Sentences | |
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| Review Test 5-A: Common Errors Involving Verbs | |
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| Review Test 5-B: Common Errors Involving Verbs | |
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| Writing Paragraphs | |
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| Coherence in the Paragraph Through Order of Importance | |
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| Using the Correct Form of the Pronoun | |
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| The Classes of Pronouns | |
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| Personal Pronouns | |
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| The Subject Pronouns | |
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| The Object Pronouns | |
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| The Possessive Pronouns | |
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| The Relative Pronouns | |
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| Who, Which, and That: Special Uses | |
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| Intensive and Reflexive Pronouns: Pronouns Ending in -self and -selves | |
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| Some Problems with Pronouns: Who and Whom | |
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| Language Tips | |
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| Writing Sentences | |
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| Review Exercise 6-A: Using the Correct Form of the Pronoun | |
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| Review Exercise 6-B: Using the Correct Form of the Pronoun | |
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| Writing Paragraphs | |
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| Coherence in the Paragraph by Using Transitional Words and Phrases | |
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| Common Errors in Pronoun Agreement and Reference | |
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| Agreement in Number | |
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| Agreement in Person | |
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| Pronoun Reference | |
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| Avoiding Sexism in Pronoun Usage | |
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| Language Tips | |
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| Writing Sentences | |
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| Review Test 7-A: Common Errors in Pronoun Agreement and Reference | |
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| Review Test 7-B: Common Errors in Pronoun Agreement and Reference | |
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| Writing Paragraphs | |
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| Developing a Paragraph by Examples | |
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| Compound and Complex Sentences | |
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| Compound Sentences | |
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| Tips for Punctuating Compound Sentences | |
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| Complex Sentences | |
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| Three Kinds of Dependent Clauses | |
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| Adverb Clauses | |
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| Adjective Clauses | |
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| Noun Clauses | |
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| Language Tips | |
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| Review Test 8-A: Compound and Complex Sentences | |
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| Review Test 8-B: Compound and Complex Sentences | |
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| Writing Paragraphs | |
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| Developing a Paragraph by Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Correcting Sentence Fragments, Run-on Sentences, and Comma-Splices | |
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| Sentence Fragments | |
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| Phrases as Fragments | |
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| Noun Fragments | |
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| Dependent Clauses as Fragments | |
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| Run-on Sentences | |
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| Comma-Splices | |
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| Comma-Splices and Conjunctive Adverbs | |
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| Language Tips | |
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| Writing Sentences | |
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| Review Test 9-A: Correcting Sentence Fragments, Run-on Sentences, and Comma- Splices | |
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| Review Test 9-B: Correcting Sentence Fragments, Run-on Sentences, and Comma-Splices | |
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| Writin | |