English Brushup6e offers a brief and inexpensive guide to the grammar, punctuation, and usage skills that students need most. It offers a combination of features not found in other texts. Its focus is on important skills, self-teaching approach, reasonable size, and outstanding instructor's supplements.
To the Instructor
Introduction
Why Brush Up Your English?
How English Brushup Works
An Introduction to Grammar: The Parts of Speech
Part One: Sixteen Basic Skills
1 Subjects and Verbs
2 More about Verbs
3 Subject-Verb Agreement
4 Sentence Types
5 Fragments
6 Run-Ons and Comma Splices
7 Pronouns
8 Comma
9 Apostrophe
10 Quotation Marks
11 Other Punctuation Marks
12 Capital Letters
13 Homonyms
14 Word Choice
15 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
16 Parallelism
Part Two: Extending the Skills
17 Paper Form
18 Spelling
19 Pronoun Types
20 Adjectives and Adverbs
21 Numbers and Abbreviations
22 Usage
23 Mixed Constructions
24 More about Subjects and Verbs
25 Even More about Verbs
26 More about Subject-Verb AgreemenlsA