Synopsis
Warriner's English Grammar and Composition is a series of textbooks on English grammar and composition by John E. Warriner, consisting initially of six books targeted at grades 6 through 12, in numerous editions, with publication beginning in 1946 and a 7th book added in 1959. Last revised in 1981, the series was still in print at the time of Warriner's death in 1987. Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich described it as "one of the bestselling series in textbook publishing history", with over 30 million copies sold. This book includes Part One: Grammar – The parts of speech, the parts of a sentence, the phrase, the clause; Park Two: Usage – Agreement, the correct use of verbs, the correct use f pronouns, the correct use of modifiers, and a glossary of usage; Park Three: Sentence Structure – Writing complete sentences and achieving sentence variety; Part Four – Writing paragraphs, writing compositions, manuscript form, writing summaries and reports, writing stories, making writing interesting, and the business letter; Part Five: Mechanics – Capital letters, end marks and commas, semicolons and colons, italics and quotation marks, apostrophes, and other marks of punctuation; and Part Six: Aids To Good English – The library, the dictionary, vocabulary, and spelling. As well as an Index and Tab Key Index.
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