Here are three helpful features of English Essentials, Short Version:

1) It’s easy to use. The book is divided into three parts. Part One focuses on fourteen basic writing skills, and Part Two offers more in-depth information about these and other skills. Part Three provides a helpful review of parts of speech and effective dictionary use. You’ll be able to direct your students quickly to the particular skill you want them to work on.

2) It makes grammar skills simple to master. A one-page skill review opens each chapter in Part One. As you go through that review, you’ll find out whether your students need further help with that skill. If they do, the pages that follow will teach students what they need to know and provide practice and tests so that they can learn in the best possible way—through doing.

3) It’s down to earth. Lively and engaging examples and practice materials will help maintain student interest throughout the book.

4) It's affordable. The net price of this 232-page book is only $6.50—a price that recognizes the economic challenges of these times. The goal of Townsend Press has always been to provide the highest quality books at the lowest possible prices.

To the Instructor
To the Student     
Part One: Fourteen Basic Skills
      1.  Subjects and Verbs      
      2.  Irregular Verbs      
      3.  Subject-Verb Agreement     
      4.  Sentence Types      
      5.  Fragments I      
      6.  Fragments II      
      7.  Run-Ons and Comma Splices I       
      8.  Run-Ons and Comma Splices II       
      9.  Commas       
    10.  Apostrophes       
    11.  Quotation Marks       
    12.  Homonyms       
    13.  Capital Letters       
    14.  Parallelism  

Part Two: Extending the Skills        
    15.  Preparing a Paper   
    16.  Punctuation Marks     
    17.  Pronoun Forms   
    18.  Pronoun Problems    
    19.  Adjectives and Adverbs  
    20.  Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers     
    21.  Word Choice        
    22.  Numbers and Abbreviations      
    23.  More about Subjects and Verbs     
    24.  More about Subject-Verb Agreement       
    25.  More about Verbs: Tenses   
    26.  Even More about Verbs       
    27.  More about Run-Ons and Comma Splices       
    28.  More about Commas       
    29.  More about Apostrophes      
    30.  More about Quotation Marks      
    31.  More about Homonyms       
    32.  More about Capital Letters

Part Three:  For Reference        
   33.  Parts of Speech    
   34.  Dictionary Use