Writing Talk
Sentences and Paragraphs
Published on 10. June 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
357 pages
978-0-13-436023-2 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 271 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-436023-2 (9780134360232)
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Content
I. THE PARAGRAPH. 1. Myths about Writing. 2. How to Start Writing. 3. Moving from Sentences to Paragraphs. 4. Writing a Solid Paragraph. 5. Revising Paragraphs. II. THE SENTENCE. 6. The Basic Sentence. 7. Building Sentences. 8. Avoiding Non-sentences. 9. Verbs - An Overview. 10. Regular and Irregular Verbs. 11. Subject-Verb Agreement. 12. Problems with Verbs. 13. Using Pronouns Correctly. 14. Pronoun Problems. 15. Distinguishing Between Adjectives and Adverbs. 16. Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers. 17. Using Prepositions. III. MECHANICS. 18. Punctuation You Can Hear. 19. Punctuation You Cant Hear. 20. Capitalization. 21. How to Use the Dictionary. 22. Spelling Rules. 23. Commonly Misspelled Words. READINGS Help for Your Reading. An Object. A Place. An Animal. A Person. An Event. A Problem. An Argument. Credits. Index..