Essentials of Writing

by Vincent Foster Hopper, Cedric Gale, Ronald C. Foote

Here is a workbook designed for classroom use that can also serve as a self-teacher. It contains hundreds of questions and exercises that help students put the rules of English grammar and writing style into practice. Eighty-five exercises include identifying nouns, comparison of adverbs and adjectives, identifying a sentence's subjects and predicates, correcting sentence fragments, making the subject and verb agree, writing and developing paragraphs, using footnotes and bibliographies, and much more.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1983

Reviews

[Lori · Rating 3 out of 5]

The exercises were good but I found that some of the answers in the back were definitely incorrect.