Primarily designed for high school students and college freshmen, this book is also helpful for adults who feel the need to brush up on fine points of language. Covered in this edition are all the essentials of effective communication in English, including grammar, usage, punctuation, and effective writing of papers and resumes.
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This new and expanded edition fills a double purpose as both a useful classroom text and a practical style manual for writers. You'll find a review of English grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, and correct word usage, as well as advice on how to adapt your writing style to different formats, from classroom assignments to business documents and electronic communication. You will also find detailed instruction on essay writing--outlining your subject, writing a rough draft, and editing and polishing it into a finished composition. New in this edition is a sample research paper that uses online sources and follows the popular MLA style for footnotes. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
This new and expanded edition fills a double purpose as both a useful classroom text and a practical style manual for writers. You'll find a review of English grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, and correct word usage, as well as advice on how to adapt your writing style to different formats, from classroom assignments to business documents and electronic communication. You will also find detailed instruction on essay writing--outlining your subject, writing a rough draft, and editing and polishing it into a finished composition. New in this edition is a sample research paper that uses online sources and follows the popular MLA style for footnotes. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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I gave this book five stars even though I think the book is rather stiff and boring. The newer grammar books have more zest and personality that make it easier for a dreamer like me to understand what they mean by an antecedent, or a dangling modifier or nonrestrictive clause. I think you know what I mean. The reason I gave "Essentials of English" a five-star rating is: when I need and answer to a grammar problem and I can't find it in all of my grammar books, I can always rely on "Essentials of English" to have my answer. That rates a five-star rating with me.
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This book offers an excellent basic coverage of English grammar (and includes, almost as an aside, an approach to composition). It also offers certain good insights into some of the interrelationships between different parts of speech, such as: "Recognition of Finite Verbs," and syntactical elements "Recognition of Sentence Fragments," etc. A great book for the price!
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Gets right down where the rubber meets the road. I bought one of these for each of my kids in college. They get great grades in English and they find it a useful quick reference when writing papers. Mine sits along side my dictionary & thesaurus
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Just as expert carpenters must be thoroughly acquainted with the tools of their craft, and as artists must have expert knowledge of colors, so good writers must have a thorough understanding of the basic material with which they work: words. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
purifying station, faulty pronoun reference, sentence connectors, participle phrase, adverb clause, gerund phrase, verb modifiers, infinitive phrase, possessive case, noun modifiers, twelve players Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mark Twain, Reggie Miller, John Macalister, Mean Joe Green, Mike Tyson, Puerto Rico, The Culture of the Aztecs, The Golden Gate, The Little Press, Thomas Henry Huxley, Boulder Dam, Cole Porter, East Coast, Henry David Thoreau, Huckleberry Finn, Mary Watkins, New Hampshire, Selection of the Correct Pronoun Based, The Rising Tax Rate, Tiger Woods, Uncle Oscar New!
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- The Social Contract (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on page 206
- Greece and Rome (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) by Joan R. Mertens on page 206
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classic) by Mark Twain on page 193
- The Number Concept by Levi Leonard Conant on page 208
- Life on the Mississippi (Signet classics) by Mark Twain on page 111
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- Laboratory Phonology VII (Phonology and Phonetics, 4) (v. 7) by Conference in Laboratory Phonology 2000 (University of Nijmegen) on page 33
- Laboratory Phonology 7 (Phonology and Phonetics, 4) (Vol 7) by Conference in Laboratory Phonology 2000 (University of Nijmegen) on page 33
- Stretched Verb Constructions in English (Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics) by D. J. Allerton in Back Matter
- Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture (Oxford Linguistics) by N. J. Enfield on page 70
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