English Beyond the Basics: A Handbook for All Basic Writers with Assistance for Spanish Speakers
Edition: 4
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 480
Edition: 4
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 480
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English Beyond the Basics is designed around approximately 180 of the most common errors that students make in their writing and other uses of language. English Beyond the Basics is a handbook to help you conveniently mark essays and help students find clear and concise discussions of many of their basic writing problems.
English Beyond the Basics:
• tries to meet the students exactly where they are having problems.
• empowers students to understand the problems they encounter.
• teaches to work independently to improve their command of English.
• places an emphasis on mastery rather than simply “correcting” errors.
• offers just enough grammatical explanation to empower a student to understand and master common problems in English.
Introduction
Note to Our Students
Subject-verb Agreement (SV)
General Verb Issues (V)
Nouns and Articles (N)
Pronouns (Pn)
Adjectives and Adverbs (A)
Prepositions (Pe)
Diction/Word Choice (D)
Word Order (WO)
Sentence Structure (S)
Spelling (Sp)
Mechanics & Punctuation (Mp)
Mp-1. Commas
Mp-2. Full-stop punctuation marks
Mp-3. Apostrophes
Mp-4. Other punctuation marks
Mp-5. Miscellaneous mechanics
Appendix 1: Exercise Answer Key
Appendix 2: Detailed List of Most Common Errors (General & Spanish Based)
Appendix 3: Detailed List of General Errors (Without Spanish)
Appendix 4: Detailed List of Spanish-based Errors
Appendix 5: Especially for Spanish Speakers: Guide (Concise List)
Appendix 6: Types of Clauses and the Eight Parts of Speech
Appendix 7: Related Error Sets to Learn Together