Skip to main content Skip to main navigation

Privacy and Cookies

We use cookies to give you the best experience on our website. By continuing, you're agreeing to use of cookies. We have recently updated our policy.

  1. Home
  2. Languages & Literacy
  3. Developmental English
  4. Developmental Writing
  5. Essential College English

Essential College English, 7th edition

  • Norwood Selby
  • Pamela S. Bledsoe

Published by Pearson (July 23rd 2014) - Copyright © 2014

7th edition

Choose a format

Overview

Essential College English is a grammar workbook with lucid instruction for the traditional principles of basic grammar, punctuation and mechanics, and usage. Ample writing opportunity is provided throughout the text to help transfer grammar skill into writing.

Table of contents

I. GRAMMAR.

1. Subjects, Verbs, and Complements.

2. Parts of Speech.

3. Phrases.

4. Clauses.

5. Sentence Types, Sentence Variety, and Sentence Combining.

6. Agreement.

7. Identifying and Correcting Sentence Fragments.

8. Identifying and Correcting Fused Sentences and Comma Splices.

9. Pronoun and Case Reference.

10. Adjectives and Adverbs.

II. PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS.

11. Commas.

12. Semicolons.

13. Apostrophes.

14. Quotation Marks.

15. Capitalization and Italics.

16. Abbreviations.

17. Other Marks of Punctuation.

18. Spelling and Style.

Answers to Practice Sentences and Editing Practice

For teachers

All the material you need to teach your courses.

Discover teaching material