English brushup fourth edition

But while slang may be appropriate in casual conversation, it generally does not belong in formal writing. The authors advise us to find original ways to get our ideas across. Chapter 15 is about misplaced and dangling modifiers. The authors tell us that misplaced modifiers can lead to misunderstandings because the listener may not know what the modifier is meant to describe.

Avoid this problem by placing the modifier as close as possible to what it is describing p. Single-word modifiers such as almost, only, or nearly should be placed directly in front of the word they are describing. Chapter 16 discusses parallelism. To achieve parallelism, all of the items in the sequence should have the same form.

For example: My neighbor likes playing basketball, watching TV, and going to the mall. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. Short stories, newspaper and magazine articles, song titles, poems, episodes of TV shows, and chapters of books are all short works and the titles of these can be placed in quotation marks p.

Chapter 11 covers other punctuation marks we come in contact with such as periods, question marks, exclamation points, colons, semicolons, hyphens, dashes, and parentheses.

Here comes something important. Chapter 12 is about homonyms. They are: 1. In order to teach students to correctly use these words, they must think about the words and how they fit in the context of the sentence i. Which two words does this contraction stand for? Does that make sense in this sentence? You are commenting using your WordPress.

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