Think About Editing A Grammar Editing Guide for ESL Writers

by Ascher, Allen

• ISBN13: 9780838439760
• ISBN10: 0838439764
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-02-13
• Publisher: Heinle ELT

Summary

Think About Editing is designed to help intermediate to advanced level students of ESL and EFL learn to edit their writing for errors in grammatical structure and usage. This tasked-based, student-centered text heightens the student's awareness of general linguistic rules so that he or she can learn to repair, and ultimately avoid , many of the errors commonly found in student writing. Interactive in approach, it strikes up a dialogue with the student, encouraging him or her to analyze language samples and discover these rules, and then apply them to his or her own writing.

Table of Contents

Introduction How to Use This Book	xiii
To the Teachers	xiii
To to Students	xvi
The Verb Phrase: Patterns of English Verbs	1	(30)
Pretest	2	(1)
Discovery	3	(13)
The verb and the helping verb	3	(10)
Verb forms and how they work	13	(3)
Summary and Review	16	(5)
Editing Your Own Writing	21	(2)
Suggested Writing Topics	23	(1)
Answer Key	24	(7)
The Complete Sentence	31	(32)
Pretest	32	(1)
Discovery	33	(15)
The elements of the sentence	33	(1)
Recognizing the subject and verb phrase	34	(7)
Sentence fragments/Dependent clauses	41	(7)
Summary and Review	48	(4)
Editing Your Own Writing	52	(2)
Suggested Writing Topics	54	(1)
Answer Key	55	(8)
Agreement	63	(40)
Pretest	64	(1)
Discovery	65	(20)
Subject/Verb agreement	67	(9)
Singular/Plural agreement	76	(2)
Reference agreement	78	(2)
Agreement with non-count nouns/Quantifiers	80	(5)
Summary and Review	85	(5)
Editing Your Own Writing	90	(1)
Suggested Writing Topics	91	(1)
Answer Key	92	(11)
Verb Tenses	103	(30)
Pretest	104	(1)
Discovery	105	(15)
Agreement of verb tenses	105	(7)
Common errors in tense	112	(4)
Time focus	116	(4)
Summary and Review	120	(5)
Editing Your Own Writing	125	(1)
Suggested Writing Topics	126	(1)
Answer Key	127	(6)
Determiners	133	(26)
Pretest	134	(1)
Discovery	135	(13)
What is a determiner?	135	(1)
When a determiner must be used	135	(1)
When a determiner shouldn't be used	135	(7)
New information vs. old information: a and the	142	(1)
The article the in superlatives	143	(1)
Using the with proper nouns	144	(2)
a and an	146	(2)
Summary and Review	148	(4)
Editing Your Own Writing	152	(1)
Suggested Writing Topics	153	(1)
Answer Key	154	(5)
Word Forms	159	(46)
Pretest	160	(2)
Discovery	162	(29)
Recognizing parts of speech	162	(14)
Using an English/English dictionary	176	(3)
Using gerunds and infinitives	179	(12)
Summary and Review	191	(5)
Editing Your Own Writing	196	(1)
Suggested Writing Topics	197	(1)
Answer Key	198	(7)
Passive Voice	205	(30)
Pretest	206	(1)
Discovery	207	(19)
What is passive voice and active voice?	208	(1)
Structure of the passive voice sentence	209	(8)
Adjectives in passive voice/active voice	217	(9)
Editing Your Own Writing	226	(1)
Suggested Writing Topics	227	(1)
Answer Key	228	(7)
Conjunctions	235	(36)
Pretest	236	(1)
Discovery	237	(22)
The complex sentence/The compound sentence	237	(5)
Coordinating/Subordinating conjunctions	242	(3)
The comma splice/The run-on sentence	245	(6)
Conjunction ``agreement''	251	(1)
Relative clauses/Noun clauses	252	(7)
Summary and Review	259	(3)
Editing Your Own Writing	262	(1)
Suggested Writing Topics	263	(1)
Answer Key	264	(7)
Mechanics	271	(28)
Pretest	272	(1)
Discovery	273	(14)
Ending a sentence	273	(1)
Commas	274	(4)
Apostrophes/Hyphens	278	(2)
Quotations	280	(3)
Capitalization	283	(2)
Abbreviations/Numbers	285	(2)
Summary and Review	287	(5)
Editing Your Own Writing	292	(1)
Suggested Writing Topics	293	(1)
Answer Key	294	(5)
General Editing Practice	299	(14)
Suggested Writing Topics	307	(1)
Answer Key	308	(5)
Appendix A Verb forms: Regular and Irregular	313	(5)
Appendix B Helping Verbs	318	(3)
Appendix C Common Verbs with Gerunds/Infinitives	321	(3)
Appendix D Review of Verb Tenses	324	(4)
Appendix E Conjunctions and Transition Words	328	(3)
Appendix F Common Non-Count Nouns	331