Part One The Sentence 1
Chapter One Sentence Sense 1
Elements of a Sentence 1
Kinds of Sentences 2
General Idea About Coordination and Subordination 5
Chapter Two Effective Sentences 11
Unity 11
Coherence 13
Shifts 14
Reference of Pronouns 19
Emphasis 21
Variety 24
Chapter Three Sentence Skills 35
Sentence Fragments 35
Fused Sentences and Comma Splices 40
Subject-Verb Agreement 45
Misplaced Modifiers and Dangling Modifiers 49
Faulty Parallelism 52
Part Two Diction 75
Chapter Four Appropriateness 75
Levels of Words 75
Styles 76
Consistency 83
Chapter Five Exactness 88
Denotation and Connotation 88
General and Specific，Abstract and Concrete Words 90
Effective Word Choice 93
Idioms 98
Chapter Six Dictionaries 104
Dictionary Use 104
Some Good Dictionaries 113
Part Three The Paragraph 115
Chapter Seven Introduction to the Paragraph 115
What Is a Paragraph 115
The Form of a Paragraph 116
Guidelines for Writing Basic Paragraphs 116
The Importance to Learn to Write Paragraphs 117
Chapter Eight Unity 119
What Is Unity 119
How to Make a Paragraph Unified 121
Basic Principles of Paragraph Unity：a Summary 124
Chapter Nine Coherence 131
What Is Coherence 131
How to Make a Paragraph Coherent 133
How to Make a Paragraph Complete 149
What Does Completeness Mean 149
Chapter Ten Completeness 149
Chapter Eleven Patterns of Development 155
Classification 156
Comparison and Contrast 156
Process 157
Cause and Effect 158
Definition 159
Manuscript Form 163
Chapter Twelve Mechanics 163
Part Four Mechanics and Punctuation 163
Italics 164
Syllabification 166
Capitalization 167
Abbreviations 171
Numbers 172
Chapter Thirteen Punctuation 178
The Period(.) 178
The Comma(，) 179
The Semicolon(；) 184
The Colon(：) 185
The Question Mark(？) 186
The Exclamation Point(!) 187
Quotation Marks(“”) 187
The Apostrophe(') 189
Key to the Exercises 195
Glossary 214
Bibliography 218