English Fundamentals, Form a

Ever been shocked at how many errors a colleague catches in your writing? How long has it been since you worried about parts of speech, sentence construction, and punctuation? If you are like most of us, the word "participle" strikes a note of fear in your belly. It doesn't have to be that scary.In bettering our language and writing skills, we need a good book. We need a book that doesn't go into too much semantic detail that we are scared off. This book has plenty of exercises and examples. Each chapter is too the point and has a summary. Then, the book has plenty of exercises.If you are not part of a class, then the practice set is for you since it has the answers listed in the back. This way, you can test your understanding. If you are teaching a class and looking for a grammar text with exercises in the same book, after the practice exercises are more exercises, which you can use as assignments in the class.This book works well as a self-help or classroom text. It is similar to Forms B and C, but with different exercises.

I've been involved as a user with this textbook since its 7th edition and still find it to be the best grammar text out there. Its depth of knowledge and organization assist the reader in understanding the various grammatical units writers can use, as well as how to use them correctly. The only weaknesses I've identified are typos, repeated examples in the same or adjacent chapters, occasional incorrect answers in the key, the discussion of subjects and verbs placed before parts of speech (the most basic grammatical unit), and the omission of interjections and conjunctions from the parts of speech chapter. I do love this text and will continue to use it.