LEON BARKHOWHERE YOU MAY GET IT WRONG WHEN WRITING ENGLISH A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND PROFESSIONALS... Where You May Get it Wrong When Writing English: A Practical
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WHERE YOU MAY GET
IT WRONG WHEN
WRITING ENGLISH
A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR
STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND
PROFESSIONALS
Trang 3Where You May Get it Wrong When Writing English:
A Practical Guide for Students, Teachers and Professionals
1st edition
© 2016 Leon Barkho & bookboon.com
ISBN 978-87-403-1429-8
Peer review by Carol-Ann Soames, Jönköping University, Sweden
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CONTENTS
Introduction 6
1 Quoting and Paraphrasing – Introduction 9
2 Quoting 17
How to Quote 18
Practical Guide 19
3 Paraphrasing 29
Practical Guide 30
Exercise 36
4 Subject and Verb Agreement 47
Exercise 48
5 The Possessive 55
Exercise 58
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6 Abbreviations and Acronyms 61 Introduction 61
What are They? 61 How to Deine Them 61 Points of Grammar and Style 66
7 Punctuation 69
Guide to Punctuation Marks 70 Exercise 80
8 Consistency 88
Consistency in the Tense of the Verb 88 Consistency in Listing 90 Consistency in Bullet Points 90
9 Currencies 94
10 The Progressive Tense 98 Exercise 99
11 Pronouns 103 Exercise 103
12 Sentences 113
What is a Sentence in English? 114 Exercise: Incomplete Sentences 124 Exercise: Awkward Sentences 127
13 Coherence 141 Exercise 168
14 Content Words 178 Exercise 178
15 Friendly Words 194
Further reading 219
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