Let's Write English

Let's Write English is designed first of all to give students of English the guided practice necessary to develop a working acquaintance with the sentence patterns of written English in their simple and expanded forms and in the major transformations of those forms. It is hoped that students will develop a sensitivity to correct structure and word order through the controlled material presented in this book. This ability to examine their own writing critically will not only greatly assist them in polishing and perfecting writing skills, but should also greatly enhance the students' reading comprehension. Secondly, Let's Write English is designed to help students develop the ability to combine sentences into paragraphs, then paragraphs into short composition.

The introduction of grammatical structures as lesson material in Let's Write English is rigidly controlled. The books begin with a review of sentence patterns which students practice by writing them according to formula and then by expanding and combining them in closely controlled, carefully demonstrated ways. In most lessons, sentence practice leads to a suggested paragraph assignment. Carefully spaced throughout the book are Writing Practice lessons which build upon what students have learned in preceding lessons. There are a lot of writing exercises in the book that have been provided by the author to help students compose sentences from the simplest one line sentence to a complete story consisting of several paragraphs. This book is suitable for anybody who wants to study various styles of writing (narration, description, argumentation and exposition) in English language. By reading this book, students will be able to study how to use time sequence in developing paragraphs, or how to use a general statement and support it with a number of sentences containing particular details. Because writing is closely related to grammar, the author also gives detailed explanations of English structure that are used in written English language. Students are encouraged to do all the writing exercises in the book from the easiest ones in the beginning chapters of the book to the more complicated ones in the final chapters to help them improve their writing skills.

I read this book a lot when I decided to make a living as a writer. Now, I have written thousands of articles on the internet in my personal blogs and website. If you plan to be a professional writer or a journalist, I highly recommend this book to you.

George E. Wishon and Julia Burks

Thickness: 430 pp.

Litton Educational Publishing Inc.

Weight: 500 gram

Table of Contents

Unit 1 Sentence Patterns with Intransitive Verbs

Unit 2 Sentence Patterns with Transitive Verbs: The Direct Object

Unit 3 Sentence Patterns with Certain Transitive Verbs: Two Objects

Unit 4 Sentence Patterns with Certain Transitive Verbs: Objective Complements

Unit 5 Sentence Patterns with Linking Verbs

Unit 6 Expanding the Noun Phrase and the Verb Phrase

Unit 7 Coordination

Unit 8 Subordination

Unit 9 verb Tenses

Unit 10 Auxiliaries

Unit 11 Verbals

Unit 12 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

Unit 13 Phrasal Verbs

Unit 14 Structure and Style: Sentence to Paragraph

Unit 15 Structure and Style: Sustained Composition

Appendix

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