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John Langan English Essentials https: Bound book containing the complete text Full color Hardcover or softcover What are my shipping options? Fifteen Basic Skills Preview 1: Parts of Speech 2: Subjects and Verbs 3: Run-Ons and Comma Splices I 9: Extending the Skills Preview Preparing a Paper Adjectives and Adverbs Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Numbers and Abbreviations Numbers and Abbreviations More about Subjects and Verbs More about Subject-Verb Agreement More about Verbs Even More about Verbs More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices More about Commas More about Apostrophes More about Quotation Marks More about Homonyms More about Capital Letters Part Three: Basics about Proofreading Ten Proofreading Tests Part Four: Related Matters Preview Dictionary UseIndex show more.

The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing instructive materials that are clear and lively.

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Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously. While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and conveying to nonreaders the pleasure and power of books.

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Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit Townsend Librarya collection of more than new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age. Book ratings by Goodreads. Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers with over 50 million reviews.

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