Includes index.

"The Bare Essentials Plus is designed for college students who want to learn how to write clearly and correctly. An adaptation of the bestseller The Bare Essentials, Form A, this text includes instruction and practice in the skills essential to good writing: organization, development, sentence structure, grammar, and mechanics. It also features a new unit desgined to meet the needs of advanced ESL learners. Concise explanations, humorous exercises, and an easy-to-use answer key make The Bare Essentials Plus suitable for students in individualized learning programs as well as traditional composition courses. Whether students are new to Canada or lifelong residents, they will enjoy using this clearly Canadian text" (Book cover).

Contents

Unit 1 Spelling
1. Three Suggestions for Quick Improvement
2. Sound-Alikes, Look-Alikes, and Spoliers
3. Capital Letters
4. The Apostrophe

Unit 2 Sentence Structure 5. Cracking the Sentence Code — Finding Subjects and Verbs — More about Subjects — Multiple Subjects and Verbs 6. Solving Sentence-Fragment Problems — Independent and Dependent Clauses 7. Solving Run-On Sentence Problems — Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 8. Solving Modifier Problems — Misplaced Modifiers — Dangling Modifiers 9. The Parallelism Principle 10. Refining by Combining — Sentence Combining — Using Conjunctions — Using Relative Pronouns

Unit 3 Grammar 11. Choosing the Correct Verb Form — The Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs — Using Present and Past Participles Correctly — Choosing between Active and Passive Voice 12. Mastering Subject-Verb Agreement — Singular and Plural — Six Special Cases 13. Keeping Your Tenses Consistent 14. Choosing the Correct Pronoun Form 15. Mastering Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement 16. Maintaining Person Agreement

Unit 4 Punctuation 17. The Comma — Four Comma Rules 18. The Semicolon 19. The Colon 20. Quotation Marks 21. Question Marks, Exclamation Marks, and Punctuation Review

Unit 5 Organizing Your Writing 22. Finding Something to Write About — Choosing a Subject — Selecting Your Main Points — Arranging Your Main Points 23. Writing the Thesis Statement 24. Writing the Outline 25. Writing the Paragraphs — Developing Your Paragraphs — Writing Introductions and Conclusions — Keeping Your Reader with You 26. Revising Your Paper — What Is Revision? — Revising Content and Organization — Revising Paragraphs and Sentences -- Editing and Proofreading

Unit 6 Mastering Your New Language Introduction 27. Choosing the Correct Tense — Tenses that Express Present Time — Tenses that Express Past Time —Tenses that Express Future Time 28. More About Verbs (For Those Who Need It) — Using Modals — Forming Negation 29. Solving Plural Problems 30. Using Articles Accurately 31. Practising with Prepositions 32. Understanding Idioms

Appendixes A. Readings B. List of Grammatical Terms C. Answers to Exercises

Index