This quick and and practical guide to grammar, punctuation, and usage skills contains important features that distinguish it from other grammar workbooks. The text's three-part format highlights the 16 most vital grammar skills up front, leaving the rest of the text for secondary topics and additional grammar activities. A self-teaching approach enables students to see exactly what they need to brush up on, and gives them focused examples and practice exercises to speed them to mastery. Finally, the manageable size and short, well-organized chapters give students just the coverage they need.

New Features

• Mastery Tests: Part Three contains an additional bank of ten mastery tests and five editing tests.
• Overview of the Writing Process: The student introduction has been expanded to include an overview of the writing process, along with examples and practice.
• Practice Exercises have been revised and updated throughout.

PART ONE: SIXTEEN BASIC SKILLS

1: Subjects and Verbs
2: More About Verbs
3: Subject-Verb Agreement
4: Sentence Types
5: Fragments
6: Run-Ons
7: Pronouns
8: Comma
9: Apostrophe
10: Quotation Marks
11: Other Punctuation Marks
12: Homonyms
13: Capital Letters
14: Word Choice
15: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
16: Parallelism

PART TWO: EXTENDING THE SKILLS

17: Paper Form
18: Spelling
19: Pronoun Types
20: Adjectives and Adverbs
21: Numbers and Abbreviations
22: Usage
23: More About Subjects and Verbs
24: Even More About Verbs
25: More About Subject-Verb Agreement
26: More About Run-Ons
27: More About the Comma
28: More About the Apostrophe
29: More About Quotation Marks
30: More About Punctuation Marks
31: More About Homonyms
32: More About Capital Letters
33: More About Word Choice

PART THREE: APPLYING THE SKILLS: Combined Mastery Tests, Editing Tests.