English Fundamentals: Form C

This is the best of several similar grammar guides for developing writers which I have had the great pleasure to read. I like the book for two reasons: First, the authors really explain sentence level grammar clearly. (Even I understood most of it, and the bulb burns not so brightly here.) Second, the book is fat with well-designed exercises and even comes with an answer key. If you are looking for a text for a developmental writing class or embarking on a self-paced study of the glory that is English, get this book.

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.