A Writer's Reference

Answers to Developmental Exercises

Answers to Research Exercises

Answers to Writing and Grammar Exercises

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

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

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

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

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

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

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