TY  - BOOK
AU  - Norton,Sarah
AU  - Green,Brian
TI  - The Bare Essentials Plus
SN  - 0774735546
U1  - 808/.042 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - Harcourt Brace Canada
KW  - English language
KW  - Composition and exercises
KW  - Textbooks for second language learners
N1  - 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
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