TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hopper,Vincent F.
AU  - Gale,Cedric
AU  - Foote,Ronald C.
AU  - Griffith,Benjamin W.
TI  - Essentials of English
SN  - 9780764143168 
U1  - 428.2 HOP 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Hauppauge, N.Y.
PB  - Barron's
KW  - English language
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Examinations
KW  - Study guides
KW  - Rhetoric
N1  - "Formerly published as: Essentials of effective writing"--T.p.  verso; "A practical handbook covering all the rules of English grammar and writing style"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references and index; The word : The noun ; The pronoun ; The verb ; The adjective and the adverb ; The verbal ; Prepositions and conjunctions ; Sentence connectors ; The interjection -- The sentence and its parts : The subject and the predicate -- Sentence errors : Sentence fragments ; Run-on sentence: comma fault ; The fused sentence -- Logic and clarity : Agreement of subject and verb ; Agreement of pronoun and antecedent ; Faulty pronoun reference ; Case ; Dangling modifiers ; Misplaced modifiers ; Split constructions ; Faulty comparison ; Omission of necessary words -- Emphasis, consistence, and appropriateness : Emphasis ; Consistency ; Variety -- Punctuation : Terminal punctuation ; The comma ; Misuse of the comma ; The semicolon ; The colon ; The dash ; The hyphen ; The apostrophe ; Parentheses and brackets ; Quotations and quotation marks ; Italics -- The paragraph : The paragraph defined -- The writer's approach to the subject : Select and adapt a subject with care ; Determine your fundamental purpose in writing ; Gather and record your material ; Make a plan of your writing ; Write the essay from the plan ; Begin and end the paper properly ; Adopt an appropriate mood, tone, and manner ; Avoid wordiness ; In descriptive writing use a principle of organization ; In persuasive writing use logical arguments and avoid fallacies ; Writing about literature ; Writing a resume ; Preparing a manuscript -- Glossary of words and phrases frequently misused -- Which prepositions go with which verbs? -- Conjugations and principal parts
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