Sentence-combining Workbook
by Altman, Pam; Caro, Mari; Metge-Egan, Lisa; Roberts, LeslieEdition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-01-01
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
This workbook uses sentence-combining techniques to help students develop confidence in their writing at the sentence level and practice communicating their ideas in clear sentence structures.
Table of Contents
| 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 | |
| Sentence Focus | |
| Exercises: Hard Ball | |
| Exam Stress | |
| Who's to Blame? | |
| Joining Sentences with Coordinators | |
| Exercises: Old House | |
| Car Shopping | |
| Joining Sentences with Subordinators | |
| Exercises: Familiar Pests | |
| Stay on the Trail | |
| Words that Show Logical Relationships | |
| Chocolate High | |
| Joining Sentences to 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Showing Logical Relationships with Transition Words | |
| Using Transition Words Correctly | |
| Exercises: Making Transitions Between Idea Units | |
| Touring Museums | |
| Smooth Traveling | |
| Joining Parallel Structures | |
| Exercises: The Decision | |
| Joining Three Or More Parallel Ideas | |
| The Cosmic Navy | |
| You Be the Co-Author | |
| Nature and Nurture | |
| Modifying Nouns with Adjectives | |
| Exercises: Never Too Young | |
| Verb Forms As Adjectives | |
| Double Dutch | |
| Hairdos--The Assyrian and Us | |
| Modifying Nouns with Prepositional Phrases | |
| Exercises: The Great Outdoors | |
| Global Warming | |
| Nessie | |
| Sutro Baths Nostalgia | |
| Plastics--On Land and In the Sea | |
| Superstitions | |
| Modifying Nouns with Appositives | |
| Punctuation with Appositives | |
| Exercises: The Ski Trip | |
| Not So Typical Music Listeners | |
| Creating Appositives | |
| Alfred and Edward | |
| Madge and Mordred | |
| You be the Author | |
| Sense of Time | |
| Modifying Nouns With Adjective Clauses | |
| Exercises: Nirvana and the Law | |
| The Lonesome Cowboy | |
| Special Rule: Who/Whom | |
| Belinda and Sedrick | |
| Blind Date | |
| Rio | |
| You be the Author | |
| Modifying Sentences with Verbal Phrases | |
| Exercises: Going Out to Eat | |
| The Economics Final | |
| Creating Verbal Phrases | |
| Fitness Folly | |
| Final Review Exercises | |
| Exercises: The Gateway Arch | |
| License Plates | |
| Dream a Little Dream of Me | |
| Earthquakes | |
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