English Brushup (Reprint)

5. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-07-742836-5
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 401 g

The fifth edition of English Brushup offers your student a brief and inexpensive guide to the grammar, punctuation, and usage skills they need most. The latest edition of English Brushup offers expanded coverage of Parts of Speech. This section has now been moved to the front of the text to aid students in reviewing the basics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Langan, John

Goldstein, Janet M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part One: Sixteen Basic Skills1: Subjects and Verbs
2: More about Verbs
3: Subject-Verb Agreement
4: Sentence Types
5: Fragments
6: Run-Ons and Comma Splices
7: Pronouns
8: Comma
9: Apostrophe
10: Quotation Marks
11: Other Punctuation Marks
12: Capital Letters
13: Homonyms
14: Word Choice
15: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
16: Parallelism
Part Two: Extending the Skills17: Paper Form
18: Spelling
19: Pronoun Types
20: Adjectives and Adverbs
21: Numbers and Abbreviations
22: Usage
23: Mixed Constructions
24: More about Subjects and Verbs
25: Even More about Verbs
26: More about Subject-Verb Agreement
27: More about Run-Ons
28: More about the Comma
29: More about the Apostrophe
30: More about Quotation Marks
31: More about Punctuation Marks
32: More about Capital Letters
33: More about Homonyms
34: More about Word Choice
Part Three: Applying the SkillsCombined Mastery Tests
Editing Tests

Über Autor(innen)

Langan, John
John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for over twenty years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both subjects, he enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Glassboro State College. He also spent a year writing fiction.