Reviewing Basic Grammar : A Guide to Writing Sentences and Paragraphs (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card)

by Yarber, Mary Laine; Yarber, Robert

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8th

ISBN13:

9780205634224

ISBN10:

0205634222

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Pub. Date:

2/11/2009

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Longman

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Summary

"Reviewing Basic Grammar" uses a step-by-step approach to combine an intense grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing.

Preface
Getting Started: Computers, Grammar, Sentences, and Paragraphs Standard English
Who Needs It?
Writing Sentences
Editing Exercise The Paragraph
An Overview Introductory and Concluding Paragraphs
Introductions Conclusions Writing Paragraphs
The Parts of Speech: A Review
The Noun
The Pronoun
The Verb
The Adjective
The Adverb
The Preposition
The Conjunction
The Interjection A Word of Caution
Editing Exercises
Writing Sentences
The Parts of Speech
Review Test 2-A: Parts of Speech
Review Test 2-B: Parts of Speech Writing Paragraphs
The Topic Sentence and Unity in the Paragraph
Finding the Subject and the Verb in the Sentence
The Subject and the Verb Finding the Verb
Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Words Mistaken for the Verb Finding the Subject
Subjects and Other Words in the Sentence
Simple and Complete Subjects
Compound Subjects
Subjects in Inverted Sentences
Subjects with Verbs in Active and Passive Voice
Subjects and Prepositional Phrases Subjects and Verbs in Compound and Complex Sentences
Editing Exercises
Writing Sentences: Identifying Subjects and Verbs
Review Test 3-A: Finding the Subject and the Verb in the Sentence
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