At a Glance: Sentences
ISBN: 9780618957798 | 0618957790
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/1/2008
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The Fourth Edition of AT A GLANCE: SENTENCES focuses on essential grammar and sentence mechanics. This text features instruction in the writing process, writing patterns, increased emphasis on critical thinking, eighty-four new writing topics, and new exercises.
| The Writing Process: Paragraphs and Essays The Paragraph and Essay Defined The Writing Process The Writing Process Worksheet | |
| Combined and Specific Patterns of Writing and Writing | |
| Topics Combined Patterns of Writing | |
| Specific Patterns of Writing | |
| A Variety of Writing Topics | |
| Parts of Speech Nouns Pronouns Verbs | |
| Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections | ... MORE |
| Subjects and Verbs Subjects Verbs Location of Subjects and Verbs | |
| Kinds of Sentences Clauses Types of Sentences | |
| Combining Sentences Coordination | |
| The Compound Sentence Subordination | |
| The Complex Sentence Coordination and Subordination | |
| The Compound-Complex Sentence Other Ways to Combine | |
| Ideas Omissions: When Parts | |
| Are Missing Variety in Sentences: Types, Order, Length, Beginnings | |
| Correcting Fragments, Comma Splices, and Run-Ons Fragments Comma Splices and Run-Ons | |
| Balancing Sentence Parts Basic | |
| Principles of Parallelism Signal | |
| Words Combination Signal Words | |
| Verbs Regular and Irregular | |
| Verbs "Problem" Verbs The Twelve Verb | |
| Tenses at a Glance Community Dialects and Standard | |
| Usage Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Consistency in Tense Active and Passive | |
| Voice Strong Verbs | |
| Pronouns Pronoun Case Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Pronoun Reference | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs Selecting | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs Comparative and Superlative | |
| Forms Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers | |
| Punctuation and Capitalization End Punctuation | |
| Commas Semicolons Quotation Marks | |
| Punctuation with Quotation Marks Italics | |
| Dashes Colons Parentheses Brackets | |
| Apostrophes Hyphens Capitalization | |
| Spelling and Commonly Confused Words | |
| Spelling Tips Frequently Misspelled | |
| Words Confused Spelling/Confusing Words Wordy Phases | |
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