Exercises to accompany The essentials of English : a writer's handbook / Lida Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, Lida R., author.

Contributor:

Hogue, Ann, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English language.

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

English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.

Report writing--Problems, exercises, etc.

Report writing.

English language--Grammar.

English language--Rhetoric.

Genre:

exercise books.

Problems and exercises

Textbooks -- for foreign speakers

Problems and exercises.

Physical Description:

vii, 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

White Plains, N.Y. : Pearson Education/Longman, [2003]

Summary:

These exercises provide practice in the writing process, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, research, and business writing.

Contents:

Sections include

Nouns; Pronouns; Verbs; Adjectives; Articles; Adverbs; Prepositions; Conjunctions; Dependent clauses; Sentence parts; Making compound sentences; Connecting words with coordinating conjunctions; Connecting words with correlative conjunctions; Using parallel forms; Making complex sentences; Using appositives; Using shortened adverb clauses; Fragments; Run-together sentences; Choppy writing ; Overuse of and, but, and so; Inverted (verb-subject) word order; Word order of direct and indirect objects; Varying sentence openings; Informal language and slang/gender-sensitive (sexist) language; Verb tenses; Special tense combinations; Modals; Passive voice; Gerunds; Infinitives; Gerunds vs. infinitives; Phrasal verbs; Subject-verb agreement; Nouns

count and noncount; Expressing quantity; Articles for generic nouns

a, an, or no article (Ø); Articles for definite nouns

the; Articles; Subject, object, and possessive pronouns/special situations; Myself, ourselves/each other and one another; Pronoun agreement; Pronouns

unclear reference; Adjectives and adverbs

position; Order of adjectives; Participial adjectives

boring or bored?; Comparisons; Negatives; Adjective clauses; End punctuation; Commas in compound sentences; Commas after introducers; Commas around extra-information modifiers; Commas with transition signals; Commas with direct quotations/ commas with items in a series; Other uses of commas; Semicolons; Colons; Apostrophes with possessives; Apostrophes; Quotation marks; Parentheses/dashes; Capital letters; Hyphens; Underlining and italics; Abbreviations; Numbers; Spelling; Organizing; The writing process; Topic sentences; Paragraph unity; Paragraph coherence; Concluding sentence; Introduction; and Conclusion

Contains:

Essentials of English : a writer's handbook.

ISBN:

0131830376

9780131830370

OCLC:

52844525