SECTION ONE NOTES AND LETTERS 3
Introduction 3
Unit 1 Notes/Letters of Thanks 9
Unit 2 Notes/Letters of Invitation and Reply 14
Unit 3 Notes/Letters of Inquiry and Request 24
Unit 4 Notes/Letters of Arrangement 29
Unit 5 Notes/Letters of Apology and Explanation 35
Unit 6 Notes/Letters of Complaint 41
Unit 7 Notes/Letters of Congratulations 47
Unit 8 Notes/Letters of Condolence and Sympathy 54
Unit 9 Announcement and Notice 60
SECTION TWO PARAGRAPHS 69
Introduction 69
Unit 1 Narrating an Event or a Routine 81
Unit 2 Describing a Person, an Object, a Place 91
Unit 3 Comparing and Contrasting Two Things 114
Unit 4 Demonstrating the Causes/Effects of an Event 125
Unit 5 Explaining a Process 133
Unit 6 Classifying an Object/a Concept 138
Unit 7 Defining an Idea/a Term 146
Unit 8 Persuading by Argument 157
SECTION THREE INTERNET WRITINGS 169
Internet Writings 169
SECTION FOUR LANOUAGE AND GRAMMAR 185
Unit 1 Capitalization 185
Unit 2 Punctuation 190
Unit 3 Subject-Verb Agreement 212
Unit 4 Run-on Sentence 216
Unit 5 Sentence Fragment 220
Unit 6 Dangling Modifier 224
Unit 7 Faulty Parallelism 227
Unit 8 Sentence Combining Skills 231
wuggested dnswers to ?eereises in Seetion Four 241
Appendix Symbols and Abbreviations Used in Correction 257