English Brushup, 5th Edition

The fifth edition of English Brushup offers your student a brief and inexpensive guide to the grammar, punctuation, and usage skills they need most. The latest edition of English Brushup offers expanded coverage of Parts of Speech. This section has now been moved to the front of the text to aid students in reviewing the basics.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: SIXTEEN BASIC SKILLS
Chapter 1: Subjects and Verbs
Chapter 2: More about Verbs
Chapter 3: Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 4: Sentence Types
Chapter 5: Fragments
Chapter 6: Run-Ons
Chapter 7: Pronouns
Chapter 8: Comma
Chapter 9: Apostrophe
Chapter 10: Quotation Marks
Chapter 11: Other Punctuation Marks
Chapter 12: Homonyms
Chapter 13: Capital Letters
Chapter 14: Word Choice
Chapter 15: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Chapter 16: Parallelism

PART TWO: EXTENDING THE SKILLS
Chapter 17: Paper Form
Chapter 18: Spelling
Chapter 19: Parts of Speech: A Review
Chapter 20: Pronoun Types
Chapter 21: Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 22: Numbers and Abbreviations
Chapter 23: Usage
Chapter 24: More about Subjects and Verbs
Chapter 25: Even More about Verbs
Chapter 26: More about Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 27: More about Run-Ons
Chapter 28: More about the Comma
Chapter 29: More about the Apostrophe
Chapter 30: More about Quotation Marks
Chapter 31: More about Punctuation Marks
Chapter 32: More about Homonyms
Chapter 33: More about Capital Letters
Chapter 34: More about Word Choice

PART THREE: APPLYING THE SKILLS
Combined Mastery Tests
Editing Tests