Synopses & Reviews
Top 20 focuses students on mastering 20 essential English grammar points. Exercises draw students' attention to common grammatical errors then teach various ways to edit and make corrections. Top 20 can be used in writing classes with any text, such as Great Paragraphs (page 12), Great Essays (page 12), Blueprints 1, Blueprints 2 (page 14), HMEAS College Writing 1-4 (page 9), or as a stand-alone text for a grammar or writing class.
Synopsis
"Top 20" offers instruction and practice of twenty grammar points, all essential to good English writing. Because editing is an important skill in academic writing, a large number of the exercises deal with the development of this ability. In particular, the exercises attempt to draw students' attention to common grammatical errors and then teach them various ways to make corrections. "Top 20" can be used in writing classes with any text (such as "Great Paragraphs, Great Essays, Blueprints 1," and "Blueprints 2") or as a stand-alone for a grammar class.Each of the 20 grammar points in the text is broken down into 4 or 5 subsets so students gain a deeper understanding of correct usage.
Table of Contents
1. Verb Tense Review 2. Problems with Verb Tenses 3. Nouns 4. Pronouns 5. Subject-Verb Agreement 6. Prepositions 7. Articles: a, an, the 8. Word Forms 9. Modals: Present and Future 10. Past Modals 11. Gerunds and Infinitives 12. Passive Voice and Participial Adjectives 13. Logical Connectors 14. Sentence Matters: Variety, Common Problems (Run-ons, Comma Splices, Fragments), and Punctuation 15. Parallel Structure 16. Adjective Clauses 17. Noun Clauses 18. Adverb Clauses 19. Confusing Pairs of Words: Verbs and Nouns 20. Confusing Pairs of Words: Pronouns, Adjective, Adverbs, and Prepositions Appendixes