Top 20: Great Grammar for Great Writing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618789677 ISBN 13: 9780618789672

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2007

By providing instruction and practice of the 20 most troublesome grammar points, Top 20 helps students master the essential grammar they need to produce great writing at the intermediate to advanced levels.

About the Author:

Dr. Keith Folse is a Professor of TESOL at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of 57 textbooks on a variety of subjects from grammar to vocabulary to composition, including five best-selling books in the Great Writing series by National Geographic Learning.

Elena Vestri Solomon is currently a lecturer in the B. Ed program for future teachers in Abu Dhabi's Emirates College for Advanced Education. She received her MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of South Florida, Tampa, and has lived and worked in Italy, Spain, France, Hungary, Romania, Uzbekistan, and UAE. She has authored/co-authored over a dozen academic textbooks in composition, grammar, and listening/speaking/note-taking.

Barbara Smith-Palinkas is an English for Academic Purposes instructor at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida, where she teaches academic writing to advanced-level students. She has co-authored several grammar and reading/writing textbooks. She received her M.A. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Review:

1. Nouns 2. Articles: a, an, the 3. Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives 4. Verb Tense Review 5. Problems with Verb Tenses 6. Subject-Verb Agreement 7. Prepositions 8. Word Forms 9. Modals: Present, Future, Past 10. Gerunds and Infinitives 11. Passive Voice and Participal Adjectives 12. Conditionals 13. Word Order and Word Combination 14. Adjective Clauses and Reductions 15. Adverb Clauses and Reductions 16. Noun Clauses 17. Better Sentences: Variety, Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices 18. Parallel Structure 19. Confusing Words and Structures 20. Editing It All Together