John Langan's English Essentials offers guidance through the grammar, punctuation, and usage skills needed for success in college and beyond. In short, English Essentials is an efficient, accessible, and helpful guide to mastering practical English skills.The book is divided into four parts -- Part One covers fifteen basic skills; Part Two offers more in-depth information about those and other skills; Part Three presents the essential skills of proofreading, and Part Four covers spelling improvement and dictionaryuse. This student-friendly organization and structure makes the book easy to navigate and a flexible guide.Each section provides essential instructions followed by ampleactivities to encourage learning in the best possible way: by doing.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface to the Instructor
Introduction
About the Book
Becoming a Better Writer
Writing Assignments
Part One: Fourteen Basic Skills
Preview
1: Subjects and Verbs
2: Irregular Verbs
3: Subject-Verb Agreement
4: Sentence Types
5: Fragments I
6: Fragments II
7: Run-Ons and Comma Splices I
8: Run-Ons and Comma Splices II
9: The Comma
10: The Apostrophe
11: Quotation Marks
12: Homonyms
13: Capital Letters
14: Parallelism
Part Two: Extending the Skills
Preview
15: Preparing a Paper
16: Punctuation Marks
17: Pronoun Forms
18: Pronoun Problems
19: Adjectives and Adverbs
20: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
21: Word Choice
22: Numbers and Abbreviations
23: More about Subjects and Verbs
24: More about Subject-Verb Agreement
25: More about Verbs
26: Even More about Verbs
27: More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices
28: More about Commas
29: More about Apostrophes
30: More about Quotation Marks
31: More about Homonyms
32: More about Capital Letters
Part Three: Proofreading
Preview
33: Basics about Proofreading
34: Ten Proofreading Tests
Part Four: Related Matters
Preview
35: Spelling Improvement
36: Parts of Speech
37: Dictionary Use
Index