Includes index and appendices.

"Great Writing: Foundations is the all-new introductory level of the Great Writing series. It is a book for beginning students of English who need more practice in forming basic sentences. To help these learners, this text provides more than 300 activities on sentence structure, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and editing. Although the book practices writing, it is an excellent tool for improving any student's basic English skills." (Overview, p. ix).

CONTENTS:

Unit 1: SENTENCES

Grammar for Writing Subjects and verbs Periods and question marks Capital letters

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of a in cat

Original Student Writing: Writing about you and your family; Peer editing

Unit 2: NOUNS

Grammar for Writing Singular and plural nouns Proper nouns

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of e in bed

Original Student Writing: Writing about your classmates or friends; Peer editing

Unit 3: VERBS: SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

Grammar for Writing Two verb forms: -s and no -s Spelling verbs with -es and -ies Irregular verbs: be and have Negative of verbs

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of i in fish

Original Student Writing: Writing about things that people usually do; Peer editing

Unit 4: ADJECTIVES

Grammar for Writing
Descriptive, possessive, and demonstrative adjectives Nouns working as adjectives

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of o in hot

Original Student Writing: Writing about places around the world; Peer editing

Unit 5: VERBS: SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE OF BE

Grammar for Writing The verb be Sentences with be

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of u in cup

Original Student Writing: Writing about two cities in the same country; Peer editing

Unit 6: PRONOUNS

Grammar for Writing
Subject and object pronouns

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of a in cake

Original Student Writing: Writing about people and their jobs; Peer editing

Unit 7: THE CONJUNCTION AND

Grammar for Writing And with two words And with three or more words

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of e in eat

Original Student Writing: Writing about your schedule for next week; Peer editing

Unit 8: ARTICLE: A, AN, THE, ---

Grammar for Writing Articles with singular and plural count and non-count nouns Choosing a or an The with places

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of i in rice

Original Student Writing: Writing about how to make a kind of food; Peer editing

Unit 9: PREPOSITIONS

Grammar for Writing Prepositions and prepositional phrases Prepositions of time and place: at, on, in Word order: Place and time in the same sentence Word order: Beginning a sentence with a prepositional phrase Common preposition combinations after verbs, adjectives, and nouns

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of o in hello

Original Student Writing: Writing about things tourists can see and do in a city; Peer editing

Unit 10: BUILDING BETTER SENTENCES WITH COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS: AND, BUT, SO

Grammar for Writing Using and, but, and so in your writing

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of u in school

Original Student Writing: Writing about a job or hobby; Peer editing

Unit 11: VERBS: SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Grammar for Writing Regular and irregular verbs Negative of verbs Single or double consonant before adding -ed

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of aw in straw

Original Student Writing: Writing about one important event that happened in the past; Peer editing

Unit 12: BUILDING BIGGER SENTENCES WITH SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS: BECAUSE, AFTER, BEFORE, WHEN, IF

Grammar for Writing Word order Using because, after before, when, and if in your writing

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of u in wood

Original Student Writing: Writing about an important day or time in your life; Peer editing

Unit 13: ADVERBS

Grammar for Writing
Adverbs of place, time, manner, frequency, and degree

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of ow in flower

Original Student Writing: Writing about a person you know; Peer editing

Unit 14: VERBS: PRESENT PROGRESSIVE TENSE

Grammar for Writing
Present progressive tense Single or double consonant before adding -ing

Building Vocabulary and Spelling: Learning words with the sound of oy in boy Original

Student Writing: Writing about people who are doing different things right now; Peer editing

BRIEF WRITER’S HANDBOOK

Definitions of useful language terms

Review of verb tenses

Capitalization rules

Eight common comma rules

Spelling rules for regular simple present verbs and plural nouns

Spelling rules for regular simple past tense verbs

Irregular simple past tenses verbs

Spelling of the –ing form of verbs

Common stative verbs

Spelling exceptions for A and An

Definite Article the

Common non-count nouns

Possessive nouns

Order of adjectives

Quantifiers

The prepositions At, On, and In

More prepositions

Editing your writing

Connectors

Academic word list

Useful vocabulary for better witting

Appendices

Index