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Tables of Contents for Tools for Writing
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS
What You Need To Know Before You Get Started
3
12
Welcome to This Course and Book
4
1
The Good News and the Bad News and the Good News
4
1
People Learn Differently
4
1
How the Brain Learns
4
3
Emotions Make a Difference
7
1
Why Is It That Sometimes People Don't Learn?
7
1
We Learn What We Practice
8
1
How the Brain and the Natural Human Learning Process Work Together
8
2
The Brain, the Natural Human Learning Process, and Learning Grammar
10
1
Learning from Workbooks or Learning from Your Own Writing
10
1
Working with Other Students and Asking Questions
11
1
Writing Class Notes in Your Book
11
1
Rules, Tools, and Idioms
11
1
Some Special Resources to Help You
12
1
Writing Practice (Homework): Short and Long Assignments
12
1
Final Words of Introduction
12
1
Summary
13
2
Prepositional Phrases
15
31
Knowledge Evaluation
17
1
Introduction to Evaluation
17
2
Prepositions, Objects of Prepositions, Prepositional Phrases (Tools 1--9)
19
6
Compounds and Prepositional Phrases (Tools 10--12)
25
10
Interesting Problems to Solve
35
3
List of Prepositions for You to Fill In
38
2
In-Class Essay
40
1
Possible Solutions to the Interesting Problems
41
3
Preposition List
44
2
Subjects And Verbs 1
46
33
Knowledge Evaluation
48
1
Introduction to Subjects and Verbs (Tools 13--15)
49
5
The ``Be'' Verbs; the ``Be'' Helper Verb Family (Tools 16--17); Number Agreement (Tool 18)
54
7
Compounds of Subject-Verb Paris (Tools 19--20)
61
5
``Be'' Verbs and Verbals (Tools 21--22)
66
7
Interesting Problems to Solve
73
1
In-Class Essay
74
1
Possible Solutions to the Interesting Problems
75
2
Partial List of Verbs
77
1
Partial List of Never Verbs
78
1
Add Your Own Never Verbs
78
1
Subjects And Verbs 2
79
20
Knowledge Evaluation
80
1
Subject-Verb Word Order and Exceptions (Tools 23--24)
81
5
Root Verbs, Root Helper Verbs, and Root Verbals (Tools 25--27)
86
5
Commands and Requests: The Invisible ``You'' as a Subject (Tools 28--29)
91
4
Interesting Problems to Solve
95
1
In-Class Essay
96
1
Possible Solutions to the Interesting Problems
97
2
Subjects And Verbs 3
99
31
Knowledge Evaluation
100
1
``Have'' Helper Verbs, Prestarted Verbs, and Prestarted Verbals (Tools 30--32)
101
8
Passive and Active Verbs (Tools 33--34)
109
2
More about Helper Verbs and the Verbs They Help (Tool 34, last note)
111
7
Contractions (Tool 36)
118
2
Interesting Problems to Solve
120
1
In-Class Essay
121
1
Possible Solutions to the Interesting Problems
122
1
List of Regular Verbs (Partial List)
123
1
List of Irregular Verbs (Partial List)
124
6
Subject-Verb Completers And Pronouns
130
27
Knowledge Evaluation
131
1
Subject-Verb Completers (Tool 37)
132
4
Subject-Verb Completers That Are Verbals (Tools 38--39)
136
4
Pronouns (Tools 40--43)
140
7
Interesting Problems to Solve
147
3
In-Class Essay
150
1
Possible Solutions to the Interesting Problems
151
6
PART TWO: MAJOR STRUCTURES
Clauses And Sentences
157
48
Knowledge Evaluation
160
1
Independent Clauses and Dependent Clauses (Tools 44--49)
161
8
The Dependent Word ``that'' (Tools 50--54)
169
7
Kinds of Sentences (Tools 55--57)
176
8
Sentence Crimes: Fragments, Run-Ons, and Comma Splices (Tools 58--60)
184
9
Dependent Clauses That Are Subjects, Subject-Verb Completers, and Objects of the Preposition (Tool 61)
193
2
Words Alone (Tool 62)
195
2
Interesting Problems to Solve
197
2
In-Class Essay
199
1
Possible Solutions to the Interesting Problems
200
2
List of Dependent Words
202
2
List of Never-Dependent Words (Also Called ``Adverbial Conjunctions'' or ``Transitions'')
204
1
Relative Clauses
205
32
Knowledge Evaluation
208
1
Relative Clauses (Tools 63--66)
209
5
Relative Words and Their Case and Number (Tools 67--68)
214
3
Placement of Relative Clauses (Tools 69--70)
217
4
Commas with Relative Clauses (Tool 71)
221
8
Interesting Problems to Solve
229
2
In-Class Essay
231
1
Possible Solutions to the Interesting Problems
232
5
PART THREE: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
More About Punctuation
237
30
Knowledge Evaluation
240
1
Commas and Semicolons in Lists (Tools 72--75)
241
5
Adjectives and Adverbs (Tools 76--83)
246
4
Commas with Quotations (Tool 84)
250
4
Possessives (Tool 85)
254
4
Possessive Pronouns (Tools 86--87)
258
2
Apostrophes (Tool 88)
260
2
Words That End in ``s'' (Tool 89)
262
2
Interesting Problems to Solve
264
1
In-Class Essay
265
1
Possible Solutions to the Interesting Problems
266
1
More About Subject-Verb Word Order And Pronouns
267
22
Knowledge Evaluation
269
1
More Exceptions to the Subject-Verb Word Order (Tool 90)
270
10
Self-Referring Pronouns, Number of Pronouns, Agreement of a Pronoun and Its Referent (Tools 91--93)
280
4
Interesting Problems to Solve
284
2
In-Class Essay
286
1
Possible Solutions to the Interesting Problems
287
2
More About Subjects And Verbs
289
42
Knowledge Evaluation
291
1
Grammar Box: Number, Person, Tense (Tools 94--99)
292
8
Number in Compound Subjects Joined by the Connector (C) ``or'' (Tool 100)
300
1
More about Tenses (Tool 101)
301
25
Interesting Problems to Solve
326
2
In-Class Essay
328
1
Possible Solutions to the Interesting Problems
329
2
Articles, Verbals, And Idioms For ESL Students
331
104
Knowledge Evaluation
332
1
Articles (Tools 102--104)
333
4
Verbals (Vb1) (Tools 105--109)
337
2
Idioms (No Tools)
339
2
Interesting Problems to Solve
341
1
In-Class Essay
342
1
Solutions to the Interesting Problems
343
2
TOOLBOOK
Prepositional Phrases (Chapter 2)
345
6
Subjects and Verbs 1 (Chapter 3)
351
7
Subjects and Verbs 2 (Chapter 4)
358
7
Subjects and Verbs 3 (Chapter 5)
365
6
Subject-Verb Completers and Pronouns (Chapter 6)
371
6
Clauses and Sentences (Chapter 7)
377
20
Relative Clauses (Chapter 8)
397
8
More about Punctuation (Chapter 9)
405
8
More about Subject-Verb Word Order and Pronouns (Chapter 10)
413
4
More about Subjects and Verbs (Chapter 11)
417
10
Articles, Verbals, and Idioms for ESL Students (Chapter 12)
427
8
Writing Practice
435
1
Suggested Topics for Writing
436
3
Glossary
439
14
Index
453
List of Abbreviations
List of Tools