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About the Author A university instructor and English professor for more than twenty years, Deborah Covino, Ph.D., is an expert on the verbal skills and strategies that are crucial to success on standardized tests. Her scholarship and creative writing have been published in nationally recognized journals and magazines. Author's Acknowledgments My sincere thanks to Joy Gilmore at BTPS Testing for her extraordinary expertise and support, to Project Editor Christy Scannell for her scrupulous attention to detail, and to my husband Bill—who co-authored an earlier edition of this book—for his generous advice along the way. 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CliffsNotes® Verbal Review for Standardized Tests, 2nd Edition Table of Contents Introduction What This Guide Contains How This Book Is Organized How to Use This Guide Types of Questions Range of Difficulty and Scope Part I: Grammar and Usage Chapter 1: Grammar and Usage Question Types General Strategies for Sentence/Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence (Vocabulary Skills) Questions Sentence Correction – Type 1 Sentence Correction – Type 2 Sentence Correction – Type 3 Improving Paragraphs Sentence/Text Completion Sentence Equivalence Chapter 2: Grammar and Usage Diagnostic Test Sentence Correction – Type 1 Sentence Correction – Type 2 Sentence Correction – Type 3 Improving Paragraphs Sentence/Text Completion Sentence Equivalence Answer Key for the Grammar and Usage Diagnostic Test Sentence Correction – Type 2 Sentence Correction – Type 3 Improving Paragraphs Sentence/Text Completion Sentence Equivalence Charting and Analyzing Your Test Results Diagnostic Test Answers and Explanations Sentence Correction – Type 2 Sentence Correction – Type 3 Improving Paragraphs Sentence/Text Completion Chapter 3: Grammar and Usage Review Introduction to Grammar and Usage Review Practice Exercises: Charting and Analyzing Your Results Section 1: Basic Parts of Speech Adjectives and Adverbs Linking Verbs Comparatives and Superlatives Practice Exercise 1: Basic Parts of Speech Answers – Practice Exercise 1: Basic Parts of Speech Section 2: Case Subject and Object Errors Pronouns in Apposition Who and Whom Possessive Errors Practice Exercise 2: Case Answers – Practice Exercise 2: Case Section 3: Agreement Subject and Verb Agreement Pronoun Agreement Practice Exercise 3: Agreement Answers – Practice Exercise 3: Agreement Section 4: Verbs Verb Tenses Subjunctives Lie/Lay, Rise/Raise, Sit/Set Practice Exercise 4: Verbs Answers – Practice Exercise 4: Verbs Section 5: Misplaced Parts and Dangling Modifiers Dangling Modifiers Participles Gerunds Infinitives Prepositional Phrases and Elliptical Clauses Practice Exercise 5: Misplaced Parts and Dangling Modifiers Answers – Practice Exercise 5: Misplaced Parts and Dangling Modifiers Section 6: Parallelism Common Parallelism Errors Practice Exercise 6: Parallelism Answers – Practice Exercise 6: Parallelism Section 7: Ambiguous Pronouns Practice Exercise 7: Ambiguous Pronouns Answers – Practice Exercise 7: Ambiguous Pronouns Section 8: Other Errors of Grammar Double Negatives Omission of Necessary Words Direct and Indirect Questions Like and As Who, Which, and That—Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses Practice Exercise 8: Other Errors of Grammar Answers – Practice Exercise 8: Other Errors of Grammar Section 9: Errors of Diction, Idiom, and Style Idiom Style Practice Exercise 9: Errors of Diction, Idiom, and Style Answers – Practice Exercise 9: Errors of Diction, Idiom, and Style Section 10: Punctuation Commas, Semicolons, and Colons Other Marks of Punctuation Practice Exercise 10: Punctuation Answers – Practice Exercise 10: Punctuation Vocabulary Skills Review Prefixes Suffixes Roots Grammar and Usage Review Test Answers and Explanations – Grammar and Usage Review Test Chapter 4: English Grammar and Usage Practice Test Section 1: Sentence Correction – Type 1 Section 2: Sentence Correction – Type 2 Section 3: Sentence Correction – Type 3 Section 4: Improving Paragraphs Section 5: Sentence/Text Completion Section 6: Sentence Equivalence Answer Key Section 1: Sentence Correction – Type 1 Section 2: Sentence Correction – Type 2 Section 3: Sentence Correction – Type 3 Section 4: Improving Paragraphs Section 5: Sentence/Text Completion Section 6: Sentence Equivalence Charting and Analyzing Your Test Results Answers and Explanations
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