Author: Elizabeth Weal
Publisher: Pro Lingua Associates
This book is for students with limited knowledge of English grammar. It offers them a systematic approach to writing as they progress slowly and methodically, with ample practice at each step along the way.
The book starts with the basics – the difference between a word, a sentence, and a paragraph. It teaches the difference between a paragraph and a list, and how to distinguish complete and incomplete sentences.
The following aspects of basic writing are covered:
- Conventions: punctuation and capitalization
- Fundamentals of a paragraph: topic sentence, supporting information
- Sentence structure: simple, compound, and complex
- Grammar: simple present, present continuous, past, and future tense/aspect constructions and usage; negative sentences; stative verbs; nonreferential there is/are; frequency adverbs; and adjectives
- Parts of speech
The book can be used as a text in ESL, ABE, or basic composition classes. All necessary instructions to the teacher are in the book.
