Top 20 Great Grammar for Great Writing

by Folse, Keith; Solomon, Elena Vestri; Smith-Palinkas, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780618152995
• ISBN10: 0618152997
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-18
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Top 20offers instruction and practice of twenty grammar points, all essential to good English writing. Because editing is an important skill in academic writing, a large number of the exercises deal with the development of this ability. In particular, the exercises attempt to draw students' attention to common grammatical errors and then teach them various ways to make corrections.Top 20can be used in writing classes with any text (such asGreat Paragraphs, Great Essays, Blueprints 1,andBlueprints 2) or as a stand-alone for a grammar class. Each of the 20 grammar points in the text is broken down into 4 or 5 subsets so students gain a deeper understanding of correct usage.

Table of Contents

Verb Tense Review

Problems with Verb Tenses

Nouns

Pronouns

Subject-Verb Agreement

Prepositions

Articles: a, an, the

Word Forms

Modals: Present and Future

Past Modals

Gerunds and Infinitives

Passive voice and Participial Adjectives

Logical connectors

Sentence Matters: Variety, Common Problems (Run-ons, Comma Splices, Fragments), and Punctuation

Parallel structure

Adjective clauses

Noun clauses

Adverb clauses

Confusing Pairs of Words: Verbs and Nouns

Confusing Pairs of Words: Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions

Appendices

Parts of speech

Irregular Verb Forms

Irregular Noun Plurals

Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs

Understanding the Writing Process: The Seven Steps

Editing Symbols

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