Essentials of English 6th Edition by Vincent Hopper, Cedric Gale, Ronald Foote, Benjamin Griffith ISBN 0764143166 978-0764143168

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ISBN 10: 0764143166 

ISBN 13: 978-0764143168

Author: Vincent F. Hopper, Cedric Gale, Ronald C. Foote, Benjamin W. Griffith I

Updated and expanded, this book fills a double purpose as both a useful classroom text and a practical style manual for writers. It reviews English grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, and correct word usage, and advises on adapting writing style to different formats, including both classroom assignments, business documents, and electronic communication. Readers will also find detailed instruction on essay writing, starting with outlining a subject, and going on to writing a draft and then editing and polishing it into a finished composition. New in this edition is a sample research paper that uses online sources and follows the widely popular MLA style for footnotes.

Table of contents: 

1 The Word
The Noun
The Pronoun
The Verb
The Adjective and the Adverb
The Verbal
Prepositions and Conjunctions
Sentence Connectors
The Interjection

2 The Sentence and Its Parts
The Subject and the Predicate

3 Sentence Errors
Sentence Fragments
Run-on Sentence: Comma Fault
The Fused Sentence

4 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

5 Emphasis, Consistency, and Appropriateness
Emphasis
Consistency
Variety

6 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

7 The Paragraph
The Paragraph Defined

8 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 Résumé
Preparing a Manuscript

9 Glossary of Words and Phrases Frequently Misused

10 Which Prepositions Go with Which Verbs

11 Conjugations and Principal Parts

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