SENTENCE COMBINING WORKBOOK, International Edition uses sentence-combining techniques to help you develop confidence in your writing at the sentence level and practice communicating your ideas in clear sentence structures. Each unit focuses on a specific sentence-level technique, followed by a set of sentence-combining exercises involving a narrative story or factual topic. Through thisinnovative story-telling approach, students will practice viewing individual sentences as part of a larger context and develop sentence expansion skills. INDICE: 1. THE BASIC SENTENCE. Recognizing Verbs. Exercises: On the Campaign Trail. The Last Campaign Trail. Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Using a Dictionary to Choose Verb Forms. Write/Wrote/Written. Getting a Record. The Onion Cure. Recognizing Subjects. Mind Your Manners. Get a Job. Miracle Food. 2. SENTENCE FOCUS. Exercises: Hard Ball. Exam Stress. Who''s to Blame? 3. JOINING SENTENCES WITH COORDINATORS. Exercises: Old House. Car Shopping. 4. JOINING SENTENCES WITH SUBORDINATORS. Exercises: Familiar Pests. Stay on the Trail. Words that Show Logical Relationships. Review 1: Chocolate High. 5. JOINING SENTENCESTO SHOW COMPARISON AND CONTRAST. Exercises: George and Paul. Summary of Comparison and Contrast Words. Getting in Shape. The Nuer and The Bakhteri. The Netsilik and The Trobriands. Comparing the Past to the Present. The Middleton Boom. 6. JOINING TO SHOW CONCESSION. The Concessive Subordinators. Summary of Contrast and Concession Words. Practice in Contrast and Concession: Two Neighborhoods. Exercises: Sunny Hills and Sea View. My Neighborhood. Practice in Contrast and Concession: Alternative to Gasoline. Alternatives to Gasoline. Take a Stand. 7. SHOWING LOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH TRANSITION WORDS. Using TransitionWords Correctly. Exercises: Making Transitions Between Idea Units. Touring Museums. Smooth Traveling. 8. JOINING PARALLEL STRUCTURES. Exercises: The Decision. Joining Three Or More Parallel Ideas. The Cosmic Navy. You Be the Co-Author. Review 2: Nature and Nurture. 9. MODIFYING NOUNS WITH ADJECTIVES. Exercises: Never Too Young. Verb Forms As Adjectives. Double Dutch. Hairdos--The Assyrian and Us. 10. MODIFYING NOUNS WITH PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES. Exercises: The Great Outdoors. Global Warming. Review 3: Nessie. Review 4: Sutro Baths Nostalgia.Review 5: Plastics--On Land and In the Sea. Review 6: Superstitions. 11. MODIFYING NOUNS WITH APPOSITIVES. Punctuation with Appositives. Exercises: The SkiTrip. Not So Typical Music Listeners. Creating Appositives. Alfred and Edward. Madge and Mordred. You be the Author. Review 7: Sense of Time. 12. MODIFYINGNOUNS WITH ADJECTIVE CLAUSES. Exercises: Nirvana and the Law. The Lonesome Cowboy. Special Rule: Who/Whom. Belinda and Sedrick. Blind Date. Rio. You be theAuthor. 13. MODIFYING SENTENCES WITH VERBAL PHRASES. Exercises: Going Out to Eat. The Economics Final. Creating Verbal Phrases. Fitness Folly. 14. FINAL REVIEW EXERCISES. Exercises: The Gateway Arch. License Plates. Dream a Little Dream of Me. Earthquakes.
- ISBN: 978-0-495-90975-0
- Editorial: Heinle & Heinle
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 31/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés