01765nam a22001337a 4500008004100000020002600041050001500067100002000082245007000102260004400172300002900216505136400245700002201609120705t        xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0844259705 0844259713  aPE1441.H35  aHansen, Barbara  aSimplifed sentence skills. /cBarbara Hansen and Rebecca McDaniel  aNew York:bNTC Publishing group,c1998.  axi,368 p.:bill.;c24cm.  aContents: 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.  aMcDaniel, Rebecca