Sentence Matters: With Sentence Exercises, Proofreading Passages, Writing AssignmentsThis worktext addresses and provides practice with issues relating to clarity, details, originality and correctness. The chapter writing assignments reflect the types of transactional writing and intellectual challenges that students will encounter in most of their other courses and careers. The book also contains longer writing assignments. |
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Adams adverb Answer Key Answers will vary apostrophe APPLYING THE FINISHING attend basketball became believe Bob Cousy CHAPTER check your answers Christa clarity coach comma coordinating conjunction Correct Cousy dangling modifier dependent clause doublespaced elected ESTABLISHING THE BACKGROUND example Exercises in Section EXPERIENCE Exercise favorite Fillmore final draft FINISHING TOUCH following sentences fragments friends GAINING THE EXPERIENCE Harrison helping verbs high school instructor will check John John Adams John Quincy Adams John Tyler LONG-RANGE ASSIGNMENTS mall Mary Baker Eddy medical school Millard Fillmore movie NAME DATE nation needed paper park passage person phrases piano players playing Polk prepositional president pronouns Proofreading PROOFREADING TIPS punctuation quotation marks Review Exercise roommate run-on semicolon singular skiing sub verb subject and verb subject-verb subordinating conjunction Taylor Thomas Jefferson Tyler verb tense Virginia voice Washington Woods Hole word group Zachary Taylor