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The Broadview Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation: The Mechanics of Good Writing

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For many years, the coverage of grammar and usage in The Broadview Guide to Writing has received particular praise. Now, for the first time, that material is made available in a stand-alone volume. Readable, reliable, and comprehensive, The Broadview Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation is appropriate for students at all post-secondary levels.

The book is divided into four sections. The Grammar section provides unrivalled coverage of complete and incomplete sentences, dangling constructions, and other subjects that give many writers special difficulty. The Usage section offers sensible and up-to-date advice on hundreds of points that frequently cause confusion. The Punctuation section provides a wealth of helpful guidance on all aspects of punctuation, with particular attention paid to such vexed questions as when to use the colon and the semi-colon, and (when using quotation marks) how to properly integrate quotations into one’s own text. A final section, English as an Additional Language, gives a wide range of helpful advice on special issues that may arise for those whose native language is not English.

A companion website provides hundreds of exercises on every topic covered in the book itself. Many of these are interactive; on completing an exercise, students are told how they did—and explanations are provided as to why the right answers are right and the wrong answers are wrong.

This book is adapted from The Broadview Guide to Writing, which is available in American and Canadian editions



Table of Contents:

How to Use This Book and Its Companion Website

1 Grammar
  • 1.1 What Is Grammar?
  • 1.2 Parts of Speech
  • 1.3 Parts of Sentences
    • 1.3.1 Complete and Incomplete Sentences
      • Run-on Sentences
      • Sentence Fragments (Incomplete Sentences)
      •  Complete Sentences and Sentence Style
      • Acceptable Sentence Fragments
  • 1.4 Verb Forms
    • The Infinitive
    • The Simple Present
      • Subject–verb Agreement
      • Historical Present
    • The Simple Past
    • The Simple Future
    • The Progressive (or Continuous) Aspect
    • The Perfect Aspect
    • Conditional Constructions
  • 1.5 Mood and Voice
    • Active and Passive Voice
  • 1.6 Sentence Combining: How to Build Sentences
2 Usage
  • 2.1 Verb Issues
    • Dangling Constructions
    • Dangling Participles and Infinitives
    • Sequence of Tenses
    • Irregular or Difficult Verbs
    • Infinitives, Gerunds, Objects: “To Be or Not To Be?”
    • The Text in the Present Tense
    • 2.2 Preposition Issues
    • 2.3 Noun and Pronoun Issues
      • 2.3.1 Nouns
      • 2.3.2 Pronouns: Who Cares about Whom?
      • 2.3.3 Nouns and Pronoun Issues with Authors and Speakers
    • 2.4 Word Order
    • 2.5 Word Meanings
    • 2.6 Part-of-Speech Conversions
    • 2.7 Slang
    • 2.8 Word Conventions
    • 2.9 Joining Words
    • 2.10 Wordiness
3 Punctuation and Other Conventions
  • 3.1 Punctuation Marks
  • 3.2 Quotations
    • Direct Speech
    • Indirect Speech
    • Formatting Quotations
    • Integrating Quotations
  • 3.3 Capitalization
  • 3.4 Abbreviations
  • 3.5 Spelling

4 EAL: For Those Whose Native Language Is Not English

Appendix: Correction Key

Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781554816774
  • Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Broadview Press Ltd
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 392 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1554816777
  • Publisher Date: 15 Mar 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Mechanics of Good Writing
  • Width: 152 mm


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