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BETTER WRITING RIGHT NOW!
LESSON 3 Using Prewriting Strategies
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Better Writing Right Now! is a hands-on guide to writing. Unlike many of the other writing books out
there, ... differences
differences
similarities
differences
Organizing Your Ideas and Outlining Your Paper LESSON 4
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LESSON 3 Using Prewriting Strategies
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BETTER WRITING RIGHT NOW!
LESSON 4 Organizing Your Ideas and Outlining Your Paper
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6. Lisa will be there.
Jennifer will be there.
Marie will be there.
7. CDs are better than tapes.
DVDs are better than tapes.
8. Marlo could have scored the winning run.
Alex could have scored ... too, are fond
of the dog. At first some neighbors were frightened by the size of the dog.
They feared for the safety of their children. Now they no longer worry. By
the way, the name of the dog ... are Madame Vigny and
Madame Strauss. (Frenchwomen)
7. Are you sister? (Dennis)
8. I borrowed my snow shovel. (neighbor)
9. Have the passes been distributed? (visitors)
10. The British advance was...
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42 TELESALES TIPS YOU CAN USE RIGHT NOW TO GET MORE BUSINESS AND AVOID REJECTION
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... that person. Feel proud of what you do, and always strive to get better!
(Art Sobczak specializes in helping people say and do the right things to get more business using the phone
and avoid rejection ... liabilities.
15. Avoid asking go-nowhere questions like, "Is everything going OK?", "What are your
needs?", "Are you having any problems now? ", "How's service?", ... ACTION
36. When sending information, samples, demos, etc., know precisely how they'll evaluate
the material. How will they know if they like it? What criteria will they use? This way,
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Adverbs
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... saying,
“It snowed,”
we would not be entirely satisfied. We would want to know the answers to certain ques-
tions:
1. How, or to what extent, did it snow?
2. When did it snow?
3. Where did it snow?
Words ... snowed heavily yesterday upstate,”
we would have had a better idea of the weather.
What Is an Adverb?
An adverb is a word that modifies either
a verb, or
an adjective, or
another adverb.
We now ... MODIFIED
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Itlarge
pearlrare
pearlbeautiful
diverMexican
diveryoung
EXERCISE 3.
Answer the following questions by writing adverb or adjective in the
space provided.
What do we need to modify
1. a verb? An _____________________.
2....
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Basic Paragraph Composition
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... annually.
______ 3. They kill thousands of people (43,000 in 2002) a year on our roads and
highways.
Now you should try writing your own paragraph with reasons. Choose one of the fol-
lowing topic sentences ... season I enjoy most.
DEVELOPING A PARAGRAPH WITH REASONS 247
Now write your paragraph.
THE TOPIC SENTENCE 241
The key to effective paragraph writing is unity.
Question 1:
What is unity?
Answer:
Unity ... the
Paragraph
Choices 2 and 4 are better. Choice 2 builds on the hints in the para-
graph that the things for which we stand in line are not too important,
and it suggests that there are better uses for the...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Compound Verbs
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... make
PRON
.
this town a better place to live in.”
ANTECED
.
54 PARTS OF SPEECH
Composition Hint
To avoid repeating a noun you have just mentioned, use a pronoun.
INSTEAD OF
: I know Texas well because ... was Ellen’s, and the handwriting was ______________, too.
EXERCISE 2.
Find the pronoun (
PRON
.) and its antecedent (
ANTECED
.), and write
them in the spaces at the right.
Samples:
Sandra said ... it
means they are.
You know (they’re, their) not happy.
Note that they’re (they are) fits in with the
rest of the sentence.
1. Do they have (they’re, their) uniforms?
2. By now (they’re, their)...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Nouns
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... the space at the right.
Samples:
Rain or snow is predicted.
Did Terry and Mallika agree with you?
1. Vermont and New Hampshire are next to
each other.
Terry and Mallika
Rain or snow
Here are the ... too, are fond
of the dog. At first some neighbors were frightened by the size of the dog.
They feared for the safety of their children. Now they no longer worry. By
the way, the name of the dog ... SPEECH
6. Lisa will be there.
Jennifer will be there.
Marie will be there.
7. CDs are better than tapes.
DVDs are better than tapes.
8. Marlo could have scored the winning run.
Alex could have scored...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Prepositions
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... probably noticed by now that every preposition is followed by a noun or a
pronoun.
He slammed the ball out of the infield.
PREP. N.
Please do not leave without us.
PREP. PRON.
We now turn our attention ... carefully.
ADV.
Handle the glassware with care.
PREP. PHR.
If you know more than one way to express your ideas, you will be a better writer.
EXERCISE 2.
Replace the italicized adverb with a prepositional ... feeling.
EXERCISE 1.
In the following sentences, underline the prepositional phrase. Then,
in the spaces at the right, enter the preposition and the object of the preposition.
Sample:
PREP. OBJ. OF PREP.
A road...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Capitalization
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... let-
ters are left out in a word. In writing contractions, don’t add a letter and don’t change the
letters around. Here is an exercise to reinforce your knowledge.
EXERCISE 11.
Write the correct ... occasion
agreeable character friend occurred
a lot (not alot) coming grammar occurrence
all right (not alright) committee handkerchief often
almost correspondence having omitted
always cough heard ... woman
since surely toward writing
speech surprise
EXERCISE 1.
In each sentence below, there is a partially spelled word. Write the
complete word in the space at the right.
1. When Jan won the...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Nouns
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... (have) gotten or got
give gave (have) given
go went (have) gone
hold held (have) held
know knew (have) known
lay laid (have) laid
leave left (have) left
lie lay (have) lain
ride rode (have) ridden
rise ... feelings
or emotions as opposed to thoughts and actions. If it does crop up in ordinary conversation
or writing, most often it is used in connection with an absence of emotion. Consider the
following:
The ... the workbench in the basement.
5. A bird (sits, sets) on its eggs to hatch them.
6. The book was right where he (lay, laid) it last week.
7. What are you (implying, inferring) by saying that?
186...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Pronouns
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... for the game. _____ still lost.
9. Did you know the last answer? _____ was easy, wasn’t it?
10. My older sister made the last payment on her car. Now it belongs to _____.
200 COMMON USAGE ERRORS
3. ... dropped _____ ice cream cone.
2. Marilyn has a new dress but has not worn _____ yet.
3. Michael knows that _____ will make the team.
4. Janine likes cats, but Ariel dislikes _____.
5. The building ... Park?
STRONG FEELING
: What a great time we had at Disney World!
EXERCISE 1.
Copy these sentences, writing the proper end punctuation marks.
1. Where did you put the hammer
2. Please pass the butter
3....
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Sentence Structure
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... To apply for a part-time job in a fast-food restaurant.
Run-on Sentences
Writing sentence fragments is a serious error. Writing run-on sentences is an equally
serious error.
Question:
What is ... with complex sentences in Part Two (page 140) and saw how they can add
interest and variety to writing. Now we look more closely at what makes a complex sen-
tence. Like a compound sentence, a complex ... down a dead pine near the house.
162 COMMON USAGE ERRORS
EXERCISE 5.
Identify each sentence by writing Simple, Compound, or Complex
on the line.
1. The movie was good, but I enjoyed the book...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Review of Verbs, Nouns, and Pronouns
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... to complete six linking
verbs. No doubt you have been using complements all your life without knowing that they
were complements.
There are several kinds of complements. Here we study two of ... nouns from the passage.
PROPER COMMON
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Recall that in less formal writing and conversation, contractions may be used.
EXERCISE 8.
Which contraction beginning with ... wasting time.
Ask her where the teams are playing.
1. We would be glad to go along.
2. Do you know if he is home?
3. My friends and I will help you.
4. You have no time to lose.
5. Terry will...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Sentence Composition
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... Writing Sentences
When you begin to write a sentence, you should know where you are going with it.
Complete the thought you set out to express. As you put your thought in writing, remember
the ... 16.
In each of the following pairs of sentences, point out the verbal by
writing the letter of the correct choice and then writing the verbal.
1. a. After gathering the suspects together, the private ... city.
EXERCISE 14.
Point out the complex sentence in each of the following pairs by
writing the letter of the correct choice and then writing the subordinate clause, (that is,
a clause that cannot function...
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