American College Handbook of English Fundamentals

William Earl Buckler, William C. McAvoy

American Book Company, 1965 - English language - 458 pages

Contents

• PART: 1
• Shifts in Point of View Exercise: 4
• Organizing the Subject Exercise: 10
• the Paragraph: 16
• Grammar and Syntax: 63
• 7: 91
• 2 Direct Object: 99
• Reference of Pronouns Exercise 2: 100
• 1 Indefinite Antecedents: 101
• 5 Kind and Sort: 102
• Case: 104
• 3 Objects of Prepositions: 105
• e Case in Elliptical Clauses: 106
• h Possessive Case: 107
• 2 Possessive of Inanimate Objects: 108
• 5 Possessives of Indefinite Pronouns: 109
• Verbs Exercise 1: 111
• Linking Verbs: 112
• Principal Parts: 113
• 1 Regular Verbs: 114
• Person: 116
• f Number: 117
• 1 Present: 118
• 2 Past: 119
• 4 Present Perfect: 120
• 7 Progressive and Emphatic Forms: 121
• 10 Conditional Auxiliaries: 122
• Voice Exercise 2: 123
• 1 Uses of the Passive: 124
• 2 Misuse of the Passive: 125
• k Auxiliary Verbs Exercise 4: 126
• Verbals Exercise: 129
• 1 Tense: 130
• Agreement of Subject and Verb Exercises 13: 137
• Adjectives and Adverbs Exercise: 144
• Prepositions Exercise: 152
• PART 3: 161
• 3 Voice: 176
• The Semicolon Exercise 8: 179
• The Colon Exercise 9: 181
• The Apostrophe Exercise 11: 188
• Italics Exercise 12: 193
• PART 4: 201
• Levels of Usage Exercise: 208
• The Dictionary Exercises 112: 216
• The Exact Word: 223
• 4 Person: 225
• Omission of Necessary Words Exercise: 233
• PART 5: 247
• 4 Case: 252
• Coherence: 253
• Faulty Coordination and Subordination: 274
• Variety Exercises 13: 281
• PART 6: 287
• Spelling Correctly: 304
• A Glossary of Grammatical Terms: 336
• d: 350
• The Library: 352
• The Research Paper: 364
• The Sentence: 381
• 2 Interpolation: 382
• 4 Quotations from Prose: 383
• Footnotes: 384
• Books: 385
• 3 Special Situations: 386
• 4 Subsequent References: 387
• q A Sample Research Paper: 388
• 1 Subject: 392
• Letters: 432
• Form: 433
• 1 Heading: 434
• 2 Inside Address: 435
• 3 Salutation: 436
• 5 Complimentary Close: 437
• f Formal Notes: 438
• The Précis: 440
• Some Fundamentals Exercises 1 and 2: 443

Bibliographic information

• Title: American College Handbook of English Fundamentals
• Authors: William Earl Buckler, William C. McAvoy
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: American Book Company, 1965
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Dec 2, 2009
• Length: 458 pages