Mastering Words, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (April 15, 2000) © 2000

  • R D Walshe
  • Phylis Wheeler

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ISBN-13: 9780733910739
Mastering Words
Published 2000

Title overview

Mastering Words provides weekly units of work containing spelling lists, word play, word origin, punctuation, grammar essentials and discussion questions.

Table of contents

  1. Which Words at the Secondary Level?
  2. How the Book May be Used
  3. Primary Revision List
  4. A Few Words to the Student
  5. Some Vocabulary Terms
  6. Units 1-99
  7. Each Unit is structured to offer practice in:
  8. Spelling - 20 words to spell correctly
  9. Vocabulary - using words to increase understanding
  10. Speaking - discussion prior to writing
  11. Writing - constructing a paragraph
  12. Usage - extension problems and reminders
  13. Word Origins - underlying patterns of language
  14. Punctuation - graded exercises
  15. Grammar Essentials in 10 Steps
    1. Only 8 Parts of Speech
    2. Recognition of the 8 Parts
    3. What Is a Sentence?
    4. Phrases within Sentences
    5. Clauses within Sentences
    6. What Is a Paragraph?
    7. The Verb Must Agree with its Subject
    8. Getting the Personal Pronouns Right
    9. Who/Whom – Does It Matter?
    10. Amazing Flexibility of the Sentence.
  16. Using Words is Choosing Words - issues of style and usage
  17. The Apostrophe - in possession and in contractions
  18. The Hyphen - in compound words and wordbreaks
  19. The Formal Letter - a modern model
  20. Index

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