* EVERY UNIT ENDS WITH UNIT TEST, UNIT TALK-WRITE ASSIGNMENT, UNIT COLLABORATIVE ASSIGNMENT, UNIT WRITING ASSIGNMENT, & PHOTO WRITING ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS REASON IT IS ONLY LISTED ONCE IN UNIT 1 PART 1: GETTING STARTED UNIT 1: The ESL Student and the Native Speaker Differences Between a Native and an ESL Student Pronunciation Homonyms Context Grammar Idioms The Importance of Speaking and Writing Well Unit Test Unit Talk-Write Assignment Unit Collaborative Assignment Unit Writing Assignment Photo Writing Assignment UNIT 2: Myths About Writing Myths About Writing Standard English UNIT 3: How to Start Writing Freewriting Keeping a Journal Brainstorming Clustering The Topic Sentence PART 2 THE SENTENCE UNIT 4:The Basic Sentence Subject and Verb Kernel Sentences Sentences Worded as Questions Prepositional Phrases Action Verbs and Linking Verbs Helping Verbs Verbals Compound Subjects and Verbs UNIT 5: Building Sentences Dependent and Independent Clauses Three Basic Sentence Types Sentence Variety UNIT 6: Avoiding Non-Sentences Sentence Fragments Avoiding Sentence Fragments Run-on Sentences UNIT 7: VERBS-An Overview Twelve Tenses Present Tense Endings Past Tense Endings Problems with -ing verbs Difficult Verbs: Be, Have, Do Helping verbs UNIT 8: Regular and Irregular Verbs Regular Verbs Irregular Verbs Problem Verbs: Lie/Lay, Sit/Set, Rise/Raise Lie/Lay, Sit/Set, Rise/Raise: Does It Really Matter? UNIT 9: Subject-Verb Agreement Do, Does, Doesn''t, Don''t, Was, Were, Wasn''t, Weren''t Indefinite Pronouns Phrases Between a Subject and Its Verb Sentences Beginning with There/Here Questions Compound Subjects Joined by And, Or, Either/Or, or Neither/Nor Who, Which, and That UNIT 10: Problems with Verbs Shifts in Tense Would Have, Could Have, Should Have, and Must Have Double Negatives Active and Passive Voice UNIT 11: Using Pronouns Correctly Antecedent Problems Agreement Problems Indefinite Pronouns Sexist Use of Pronouns Shifting Point of View UNIT 12: Pronoun Problems Case Problems Pesky Pronouns UNIT 13: Using Adjectives and Adverbs Adjectives and Adverbs Comparisons Using Superlatives Using Good/Well and Bad/Badly This/That and These/Those UNIT 14: Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers Dangling Modifiers Misplaced Modifiers UNIT 15: Using Prepositions Multiword Prepositions Prepositional Phrases Prepositions in Commonly Used Expressions Frequently Misused Prepositions Frequently Misused Prepositional Expressions PART 3 THE PARAGRPH UNIT 16: Moving from Sentences to Paragraphs Supporting Details UNIT 17: Writing a Soli.
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