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Cengage Grammar And Usage Naturally 1St Edition 2014 by Larry Barkley, Christine Sandoval
Master The Skills Of Clear And Effective Writing With Grammar And Usage, Naturally. Class-Tested By Students Like You, This Easy-To-Understand Book Offers Clear, Detailed Explanations Using Correct Grammar Terminology And Multiple Practice Sets To Help You Build The Grammar Knowledge You Need To Be A Successful Writer-Skills You'Ll Take With You Through Your Academic Career And Beyond. "Components At Work" Features Give You Lots Of Practice And Combine Concepts Cumulative To That Chapter. You Also Practice Grammar Skills In Conjunction With Reading And Writing Skills, Reinforcing Your Skill Set And Building Your Confidence As A Reader And Writer. Table Of Contents - Preface.To The Instructor: Cultivating Your Students' Growth.To The Student: Planting The Seeds Of Your Success.Part I: The Fundamentals.1. Your Grammatical Roots: Nouns, Pronouns, And Verbs.Nous. Pronouns. Verbs. Components At Work. 2. Cultivating Your Grammatical Roots I: Adjective And Adverbs.Adjectives. Adverbs. Components At Work. 3. Cultivating Your Grammatical Roots Ii: Conjunctions, Prepositions, And Interjections.Conjunctions. Prepositions. Interjections. Components At Work. 4. Subjects. Single Subjects. Compound Subjects. Subject Pronouns. Components At Work. 5. Subjects That Don'T Look Like Subjects. Indefinite Pronouns. The Understood You Of Imperatives. Verbals: Gerunds And Infinitives. Components At Work. 6. Verbs. Action Verbs. Linking Verbs. Helping (Auxiliary) Verbs. Components At Work. 7. Irregular Verbs. Principal Parts Of The Verb. Three Pairs Of Troublesome Irregular Verbs. Components At Work. 8. Subject-Verb Agreement. Subject-Verb Agreement Rules. Components At Work. 9. Clauses. Clauses. Adjective And Adverb Subordinate Clauses. Punctuating Adverb Clauses. Restrictive And Nonrestrictive Adjective-Subordinate Clauses. Sentence Combining And Adjective And Adverb Subordinate Clauses. Components At Work. Reviewing Your Growth. Parts Of Speech. Subjects And Verbs. Subjects That Don'T Look Like Subjects And Verbs. Clauses. Reviewing Your Growth.Part Ii: The Elements Of Composition.10. Writing Paragraphs.The Paragraph. The Topic And Topic Sentence. Direct And Climactic Paragraphs. Unity. Support. Coherence. Audience And Audience Analysis. The Purpose Or Intent Of A Paragraph. Persuasion. 11. Inventing And Organizing. The Writing Process. Step 1: Inventing. Step 2: Organizing. 12. Drafting, Revising, And Editing.Step 3: Drafting. Step 4: Revising. Step 5: Editing And Proofreading. Submitting Your Paper. Part Iii: Enhancing The Fundamentals.13. Verb Phrases: Infinitives And Participial Phrases. Infinitive Phrases. Participial Phrases. Sentence Combining And Sentence Variety. 14. Noun Phrases: Prepositional, Absolute, And Appositive. Prepositional Phrase. Absolute Phrase. Appositive Phrase. Components And Work. 15. Simple And Compound Sentences. Simple Sentence. Compound Sentence. Simple And Compound Sentence Combining. Components At Work. 16. Complex And Compound Sentences.Complex Sentence. Compound-Complex Sentence. Sentence Combining And Comples And Compound-Complex Sentences. Components At Work. 17. Verb Tenses And Mood. Twelve Active Verb Tenses. Verbs And Mood. Components At Work. 18. Active And Passive Voice And Parallel Structure. Active Voice And Passive Voice. Parallel Structure. Components At Work. 19. Punctuation Marks. Commas. Semicolon. Colon. Apostrophe. Dash. Quotation Marks. Hyphen. Exclamation Mark. Components At Work. Appendixes.Capitalization. Fundamental Spelling Rules. Pronouns. Common Writing Errors. Confusing Words. Glossary Of Grammatical Terms.