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Answers to Exercises (PDF)

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Answers to Research Exercises

Answers to Writing and Grammar Exercises

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CompClass Modules Answer Key

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Developmental Exercises (16-18): Clarity (word choice) (PDF)

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Review of W2-W5: Word choice

W3-1 Active verbs: Guided practice

W3-2 Active verbs

W3-3 Active verbs

W3-4 Active verbs: Guided review

W4-1 Appropriate language: Guided practice

W4-2 Appropriate language

W4-3 Appropriate language

W4-4 Appropriate language: Guided review

W5-1 Exact language: Guided practice

W5-2 Exact language

W5-3 Exact language

W5-4 Exact language

W5-5 Exact language: Guided review

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Developmental Exercises (19-25): Grammar (PDF)

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G1-1 Subject-verb agreement: Guided practice

G1-2 Subject-verb agreement

G1-3 Subject-verb agreement

G1-4 Subject-verb agreement: Guided review

Review of G1-G6: Grammatical sentences

G2-1 Verb forms: Guided practice

G2-2 Verb forms

G2-3 Verb forms

G2-4 Verb forms: Guided review

G2-5 Verb tense and mood: Guided practice

G2-6 Verb tense and mood

G2-7 Verb tense and mood

G2-8 Verb tense and mood: Guided review

G3-1 Pronoun-antecedent agreement: Guided practice

G3-10 Pronoun and noun case

G3-11 Pronoun and noun case

G3-12 Pronoun and noun case: Guided review

G3-13 Who and whom: Guided practice

G3-14 Who and whom

G3-15 Who and whom

G3-16 Who and whom: Guided review

G3-2 Pronoun-antecedent agreement

G3-3 Pronoun-antecedent agreement

G3-4 Pronoun-antecedent agreement: Guided review

G3-5 Pronoun reference: Guided practice

G3-6 Pronoun reference

G3-7 Pronoun reference

G3-8 Pronoun reference: Guided review

G3-9 Pronoun and noun case: Guided practice

G4-1 Adjectives and adverbs: Guided practice

G4-2 Adjectives and adverbs

G4-3 Adjectives and adverbs

G4-4 Adjectives and adverbs: Guided review

G5-1 Fragments: Guided practice

G5-2 Fragments

G5-3 Fragments

G5-4 Fragments

G5-5 Fragments

G5-6 Fragments: Guided review

G6-1 Run-on sentences: Guided practice

G6-2 Run-on sentences

G6-3 Run-on sentences

G6-4 Run-on sentences

G6-5 Run-on sentences: Guided review

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Developmental Exercises (28-31): Multilingual writers and ESL challenges (PDF)

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M1-1 ESL verb use: Guided practice

M1-2 Verb form and tense

M1-3 Verb use

M1-4 Verb forms

M1-5 Passive verbs

M1-6 Conditional verbs

M1-7 Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives

M1-8 Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives

M1-9 ESL verb use: Guided review

Review of M1-M5: Multilingual writers and ESL challenges

M2-1 Articles: Guided practice

M2-2 Articles

M2-3 Articles

M2-4 Articles: Guided review

M3/M4/M5-1 Sentence structure, adjectives, and prepositions: Guided practice

M3/M4/M5-2 Omissions and needless repetitions

M3/M4/M5-3 Present and past participles

M3/M4/M5-4 Placement of adjectives

M3/M4/M5-5 Sentence structure, adjectives, and prepositions: Guided review

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Developmental Exercises (32-39): Punctuation (PDF)

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P1/P2-1 The comma and unnecessary commas: Guided practice

P1/P2-2 The comma

P1/P2-3 The comma

P1/P2-4 The comma

P1/P2-5 Unnecessary commas

P1/P2-6 Unnecessary commas

P1/P2-7 The comma and unnecessary commas: Guided review

Review of P1-P6: Punctuation

P3-1 The semicolon: Guided practice

P3-2 The semicolon

P3-3 The semicolon

P3-4 The semicolon: Guided review

P3-5 The colon: Guided practice

P3-6 The colon

P3-7 The colon

P3-8 The colon: Guided review

P4-1 The apostrophe: Guided practice

P4-2 The apostrophe

P4-3 The apostrophe

P4-4 The apostrophe: Guided review

P5-1 Quotation marks: Guided practice

P5-2 Quotation marks

P5-3 Quotation marks

P5-4 Quotation marks: Guided review

P6-1 End punctuation: Guided practice

P6-2 End punctuation

P6-3 End punctuation: Guided review

P6-4 Other punctuation marks: Guided practice

P6-5 Other punctuation marks

P6-6 Other punctuation marks

P6-7 Other punctuation marks: Guided review

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Developmental Exercises (40-45): Mechanics (PDF)

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P7/P8-1 Spelling, the hyphen, and capitalization: Guided practice

P7/P8-2 Spelling

P7/P8-3 The hyphen

P7/P8-4 Capitalization

P7/P8-5 Spelling, the hyphen, and capitalization: Guided review

Review of P7-P10: Mechanics

P9/P10-1 Abbreviations, numbers, and italics: Guided practice

P9/P10-2 Abbreviations and numbers

P9/P10-3 Italics

P9/P10-4 Abbreviations, numbers, and italics: Guided review

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Developmental Exercises (46-49): Grammar Basics (PDF)

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B1-1 Parts of speech: Preview

B1-2 Nouns and noun/adjectives

B1-3 Nouns and noun/adjectives

B1-4 Pronouns and pronoun/adjectives

B1-5 Verbs

B1-6 Adjectives and adverbs

B1-7 Prepositions

B1-8 Prepositions and conjunctions

B1-9 Parts of speech: Review

B2-1 Parts of sentences: Preview

B2-2 Subjects

B2-3 Direct objects and subject complements

B2-4 Indirect objects and object complements

B2-5 Direct objects, indirect objects, and object complements

B2-6 Parts of sentences: Review

B3-1 Subordinate word groups: Preview

B3-2 Prepositional phrases

B3-3 Prepositional and verbal phrases

B3-4 Verbal phrases

B3-5 Subordinate clauses

B3-6 Subordinate word groups: Review

B4-1 Sentence types: Preview

B4-2 Sentence types

B4-3 Sentence patterns: Review

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Developmental Exercises (8-15): Clarity (effective sentences) (PDF)

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Review of S1–S7: Sentence style

S1-1 Parallelism: Guided practice

S1-2 Parallelism

S1-3 Parallelism

S1-4 Parallelism: Guided review

S2-1 Needed words: Guided practice

S2-2 Needed words

S2-3 Needed words

S2-4 Needed words: Guided review

W2-1 Wordy sentences: Guided practice

W2-2 Wordy sentences

W2-3 Wordy sentences

W2-4 Wordy sentences: Guided review

S3-1 Misplaced and dangling modifiers: Guided practice

S3-2 Misplaced modifiers

S3-3 Misplaced and dangling modifiers

S3-4 Misplaced and dangling modifiers: Guided review

S4-1 Distracting shifts: Guided practice

S4-2 Distracting shifts

S4-3 Distracting shifts

S4-4 Distracting shifts: Guided review

S5-1 Mixed constructions: Guided practice

S5-2 Mixed constructions

S5-3 Mixed constructions

S5-4 Mixed constructions: Guided review

S6-1 Sentence emphasis: Guided practice

S6-2 Sentence emphasis

S6-3 Sentence emphasis

S6-4 Sentence emphasis: Guided review

S7-1 Sentence variety: Guided practice

S7-2 Sentence variety

S7-3 Sentence variety: Guided review

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Grammar Exercises (1-4): The writing process (PDF)

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1-1 Narrowing a subject

1-2 Considering purpose and audience

2-1 Thesis statements

4-1 Topic sentences

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Grammar Exercises (19-27): Grammar (PDF)

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19-1 Sentence fragments 1

19-2 Sentence fragments 2

20-1 Run-on sentences 1

20-2 Run-on sentences 2

20-3 Run-on sentences 3

21-1 Subject-verb agreement 1

21-2 Subject-verb agreement 2

22-1 Pronoun-antecedent agreement 1

22-2 Pronoun-antecedent agreement 2

23-1 Pronoun reference 1

23-2 Pronoun reference 2

24-1 Pronoun case (such as I vs. me) 1

24-2 Pronoun case (such as I vs. me) 2

25-1 Who versus whom

26-1 Adjectives and adverbs 1

26-2 Adjectives and adverbs 2

27-1 Irregular verbs

27-2 Standard verb forms

27-3 Verb tense and mood

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Grammar Exercises (28-31): Multilingual writers and ESL challenges (PDF)

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28-1 Verb forms and tenses

28-2 Verb forms with modals

28-3 Conditional verbs

28-4 Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives

29-1 Articles 1

29-2 Articles 2

30-1 Omissions and repetitions

30-2 Sentence structure

30-3 Present versus past participles

30-4 Order of cumulative adjectives

31-1 Prepositions showing time and place

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Grammar Exercises (32-39): Punctuation (PDF)

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32-1 The comma 1

32-2 The comma 2

32-3 The comma 3

32-4 The comma 4

32-5 The comma 5

32-6 Major uses of the comma

32-7 All uses of the comma

33-1 Unnecessary commas 1

33-2 Unnecessary commas 2

34-1 The semicolon and the comma 1

34-2 The semicolon and the comma 2

35-1 The colon, the semicolon, and the comma

36-1 The apostrophe 1

36-2 The apostrophe 2

37-1 Quotation marks 1

37-2 Quotation marks 2

38-1 End punctuation

39-1 Dash, parentheses, brackets, ellipsis mark, slash

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Grammar Exercises (40-45): Mechanics (PDF)

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40-1 Abbreviations

41-1 Numbers

42-1 Italics

43-1 Spelling

44-1 The hyphen

45-1 Capital letters

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Grammar Exercises (46-49): Grammar Basics (PDF)

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46-1 Identifying nouns

46-2 Identifying pronouns

46-3 Identifying verbs

46-4 Identifying adjectives and adverbs

47-1 Identifying subjects

47-2 Identifying subject complements and direct objects

47-3 Identifying objects and complements

48-1 Identifying prepositional phrases

48-2 Identifying verbal phrases

48-3 Identifying subordinate clauses

49-1 Identifying sentence types

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Grammar Exercises (7): Academic writing (PDF)

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Grammar Exercises (8-18): Clarity (PDF)

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8-1 Active verbs

9-1 Parallelism 1

10-1 Needed words

11-1 Mixed constructions

12-1 Misplaced or awkwardly placed modifiers

12-2 Dangling modifiers

13-1 Distracting shifts

13-2 Shifts in person and number

13-3 Shifts in verb tense

13-4 Shifts in mood, voice, questions, and quotations

14-1 Coordination and subordination

14-2 Choppy sentences

14-3 Subordination 1

14-4 Subordination 2

15-1 Sentence variety 1

15-2 Sentence variety 2

16-1 Wordy sentences 1

16-2 Wordy sentences 2

17-1 Appropriate language

17-2 Jargon

17-3 Formality

17-4 Sexist language 1

17-5 Sexist language 2

18-1 Exact words

18-2 Misused words

18-3 Standard idioms

18-4 Figures of speech

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Hacker Diagnostics

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Answer Key for diagnostics tests (PDF)

Hacker Diagnostic Tests (PDF)

Hacker Electronic Diagnostic Tests

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Research Exercises (53): Research (PDF)

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Research Exercises (56-59): MLA (PDF)

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56-1 Thesis statements in MLA papers

56-2 Thesis statements in MLA papers

57-1 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers

57-2 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers

57-3 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers

57-4 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers

57-5 Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers

57-6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers

58-1 Integrating sources in MLA papers

58-2 Integrating sources in MLA papers

58-3 Integrating sources in MLA papers

58-4 Integrating sources in MLA papers

59-1 MLA documentation: in-text citations

59-2 MLA documentation: in-text citations

59-3 MLA documentation: in-text citations

59-4 MLA documentation: identifying elements of sources

59-5 MLA documentation: works cited

59-6 MLA documentation: works cited

59-7 MLA documentation: works cited

59-8 MLA documentation

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Research Exercises (61-64): APA (PDF)

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