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Simplifed sentence skills. / Barbara Hansen and Rebecca McDaniel

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York: NTC Publishing group, 1998.Description: xi,368 p.: ill.; 24cmISBN:
  • 0844259705 0844259713
LOC classification:
  • PE1441.H35
Contents:
Contents: Sentence Structure: Verbs, subjects, compliments, and compound -- Sentence Errors: Independent clauses -- Dependent clauses -- Comma splices and fused sentences -- Sentence fragements -- Faulty parallelism -- Dangling modifiers -- Punctuation: Punctuation joining independent clauses -- Joining with coordinating conjunctions and connetives -- Joining with no connective word -- Joining with conjunctive adverbs and sentence modifiers -- Puntuation seperating elements in a sentence -- Separating introductory elements -- Separating items in a series -- Summary of puntuation patterns -- Grammer: Subject and verb agreement -- Singular and plural subjects and verbs -- Five common causes of subject/verb agreement errors -- Verbs -- Regular verbs -- Transitive and intransitive verbs: The Sick most difficult -- Pronouns -- Nominative case -- Possessive case -- Agreement of pronouns and antecedent -- Mechanics: Apostrophes, capitalization quotation marks and underlinning -- Relationship of plural, singular and apostrophe -- Using the apostrophe to form possessives three major rules -- Use of capitals, nine rules concerning capitalization -- Use of quotation marks and underlining -- Usage: Commonly confused words: Homophones -- More homophones -- Commonly confused words -- More commonly confused words -- Misspellings of eleven common words.
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Contents: Sentence Structure: Verbs, subjects, compliments, and compound -- Sentence Errors: Independent clauses -- Dependent clauses -- Comma splices and fused sentences -- Sentence fragements -- Faulty parallelism -- Dangling modifiers -- Punctuation: Punctuation joining independent clauses -- Joining with coordinating conjunctions and connetives -- Joining with no connective word -- Joining with conjunctive adverbs and sentence modifiers -- Puntuation seperating elements in a sentence -- Separating introductory elements -- Separating items in a series -- Summary of puntuation patterns -- Grammer: Subject and verb agreement -- Singular and plural subjects and verbs -- Five common causes of subject/verb agreement errors -- Verbs -- Regular verbs -- Transitive and intransitive verbs: The Sick most difficult -- Pronouns -- Nominative case -- Possessive case -- Agreement of pronouns and antecedent -- Mechanics: Apostrophes, capitalization quotation marks and underlinning -- Relationship of plural, singular and apostrophe -- Using the apostrophe to form possessives three major rules -- Use of capitals, nine rules concerning capitalization -- Use of quotation marks and underlining -- Usage: Commonly confused words: Homophones -- More homophones -- Commonly confused words -- More commonly confused words -- Misspellings of eleven common words.

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