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Great Sentences for Great Paragraphs focuses students on building basic writing skills by teaching them the elements of a good sentence within the context of a paragraph.

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• 1 Understanding Sentence Basics What Is a Sentence?
• Working with Sentences The Parts of a Sentence Sentences in Paragraphs Word Building Building Better Sentences Editing Journal Writing Sample Journal
• 2 Connecting Sentences and Paragraphs Sentences
• Using Adjectives What Is a Paragraph?
• Working with the Whole Paragraph Working with Topic Sentences
• Working with the Body of the Paragraph
• Working with Concluding Sentences Word Building
• Building Better Sentences
• 3 Writing About the Present Begin with the Present Tense Negatives and the Present Tense Sentences with Object Pronouns Sentence Types
• Simple and Compound Word Building Building Better Sentences
• 4 Writing About the Past Begin with the Past Tense Irregular Past Tense Verbs
• Negative Verb Review Compound Sentences with But Word Building Building Better Sentences
• 5 Describing Actions Using the Present Progressive Using the Connector And Using the Connector So Adverbs Word Building Building Better Sentences
• 6 Writing About the Future Talking About the Future
• Using Time Words Be Going To and Will with Negatives Complex Sentences Articles A, An
• The Questions and Answers: Structures with Because Word Building Building Better Sentences.
• 7 Writing Sentences with Adjective Clauses and Place Phrases Writing with Adjective Clauses Understanding Place Phrases Word Building Building Better Sentences
• 8 More Practice with Sentences and Paragraphs Practice with Sentences and Paragraphs Responding to Issues in the News Word Building
• Appendixes
• 1 Definitions of Useful Language Terms
• 2 Review of Verb Tenses
• 3 Capitalization Rules
• 4 Spelling Rules for Regular Past Tense Verbs
• 5 Irregular Past Tense Verbs
• 6 Spelling of the -ing (present participle) Form of Verbs
• 7 Common Stative, or Nonaction, Verbs
• 8 Definite Article The
• 9 Common Noncount Nouns
• 10 Possessive Adjectives
• 11 Quantifiers
• 12 The Prepositions At, On, and In
• 13 Connectors
• 14 Some Common Comma Rules
• 15 Order of Adjectives
• 16 Building Better Sentences
• 17 Extra Writing Activities
• 18 Peer Editing Sheets