The Little, Brown workbook /

Gorrell, Donna.

The Little, Brown workbook / Donna Gorrell. - 3rd edition - Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown and company, c1986. - xviii, 508 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents;

I. The whole paper and paragraphs
1. Developing an essay
2. Drafting and revising the essay
3. Composing paragraphs
4. Convincing your readers

II. Grammatical sentences
5. Understanding sentence grammar
6. Case of nouns and pronouns
7. Verb forms, tense, mood, and voice
8. Agreement
9. Adjectives and adverbs

III. Clear sentences
10. Sentence fragments
11. Comma splices and fused sentences
12. Pronoun reference
13. Shifts
14. Misplaced and dangling modifiers
15. Mixed and incomplete sentences

IV. Effective sentences
16. Using coordination and subordination
17. Using parallelism
18. Emphasizing main ideas
19. Achieving variety

V. Punctuation
20. End punctuation
21. The comma
22. The semicolon
23. The apostrophe
24. Quotation marks
25. Other punctuation marks

VI. Mechanics
26. Capitals
27. Italics
28. Abbreviations
29. Numbers
30. Word division

VII. Effective words
31. Controlling diction
32. Using the dictionary
33. Improving your vocabulary
34. Spelling



Index : p. 501-508.

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English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.

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