Featuring the same simple, friendly approach that has helped students with their spelling, punctuation, and sentence and paragraph structure for over twenty years THE LEAST YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ENGLISH now provides an electronic version with interactive exercises.
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"The variety and the thematic content of the exercises keeps students alert, even though they often feel rebellious about learning grammar"
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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No need to buy Forms A, B, and C,
This review is from: The Least You Should Know About English: Writing Skills (Form B) (Paperback)
I love this series -- it's straightforward and easy to teach in portions rather than having to go sequentially through the book as you do with other workbooks. However, I was ding-dong enough to buy all three forms -- A, B, and C. If you read the footnotes at the beginning of B and C, you'll note the instructions/content/topics are the same in all three Forms -- the only thing that changes are the exercises. For my purposes in a high school English classroom, only one Form would have been fine since I could have created my own additional exercises as needed.
The information covers basic parts of speech through essay writing and includes remedial through advanced types of exercises and topics. I particularly like the possessives and contractions as well as the doubling-before-suffix lessons. I can't say the information is rare, but it's nice to have it all in one handy reference that's genuinely full of practical instruction and lacks unnecessary narrative.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Book - Wish I had it in 8th Grade,
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This review is from: The Least You Should Know About English: Writing Skills (Form B) (Paperback)
This book covers all the grammar you need to write clearly and professionally. It does not dwell on pedantic technicalities.
The idea is to present the facts in context of how you may use them, in a way that makes it easy to learn and remember. Pithy: having substance and point, tersely cogent
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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great reference.,
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This review is from: The Least You Should Know About English: Writing Skills , Form B (Paperback)
This book was recommended by my ENG 101 Instructor and is great for everyday reference.
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