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.