At a Glance: Sentences - Softcover

Brandon, Lee

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ISBN 10: 0618957790 ISBN 13: 9780618957798

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2008

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The Fourth Edition of AT A GLANCE: SENTENCES focuses on essential grammar and sentence mechanics. This text features instruction in the writing process, writing patterns, increased emphasis on critical thinking, eighty-four new writing topics, and new exercises.

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About the Author:

Lee Brandon is the author of twelve college English textbooks with Cengage Learning, including the best-selling series, Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond with Integrated Readings, and Paragraphs and Essays with Integrated Readings and the highly successful At a Glance series. He has served as chair of the English Department at Mt. San Antonio College, where he taught for more than thirty years and occasionally still teaches. Few authors are as active in the promotion of their books as Lee Brandon, who regularly visits schools across the country and presents at professional conferences. Lee also has to his credit poems and short stories in magazines; songs recorded and in sheet music; a best-selling musical play for elementary school students (in print with Lorenz Music); a play produced by a college drama department; a published Ford Foundation grant project; a chapbook of ballads about his youth, Oklahoma, My Sweet Sorrow; a chapbook of ballads about his experience teaching for ten years in a high-security California women's prison, Butterflies on Barbwire; and newspaper articles about travel, adventures, and whimsical experiences.

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Note: Chapters 3-12 include a Chapter Review. 1. The Writing Process: Paragraphs and Essays The Paragraph and Essay Defined The Writing Process The Writing Process Worksheet 2. Combined and Specific Patterns of Writing and Writing Topics Combined Patterns of Writing Specific Patterns of Writing A Variety of Writing Topics 3. Parts of Speech Nouns Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections 4. Subjects and Verbs Subjects Verbs Location of Subjects and Verbs 5. Kinds of Sentences Clauses Types of Sentences 6. Combining Sentences Coordination: The Compound Sentence Subordination: The Complex Sentence Coordination and Subordination: The Compound-Complex Sentence Other Ways to Combine Ideas Omissions: When Parts Are Missing Variety in Sentences: Types, Order, Length, Beginnings 7. Correcting Fragments, Comma Splices, and Run-Ons Fragments Comma Splices and Run-Ons 8. Balancing Sentence Parts Basic Principles of Parallelism Signal Words Combination Signal Words 9. Verbs Regular and Irregular Verbs "Problem" Verbs The Twelve Verb Tenses at a Glance Community Dialects and Standard Usage Subject-Verb Agreement Consistency in Tense Active and Passive Voice Strong Verbs 10. Pronouns Pronoun Case Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Pronoun Reference 11. Adjectives and Adverbs Selecting Adjectives and Adverbs Comparative and Superlative Forms Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers 12. Punctuation and Capitalization End Punctuation Commas Semicolons Quotation Marks Punctuation with Quotation Marks Italics Dashes Colons Parentheses Brackets Apostrophes Hyphens Capitalization 13. Spelling and Commonly Confused Words Spelling Tips Frequently Misspelled Words Confused Spelling/Confusing Words Wordy Phases

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