Writing Skills—PSAT or SAT II Writing
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“Writing Sentences” (73-101) (pp. 81-94)

Sentence Combining
Semicolons
Not only/But also
Appositive Phrases
Writing Complete Sentences
Avoiding Rambling Sentences
Avoiding Run-on Sentences
Writing Clear Sentences
Indefinite References (Vague it)
Misplaced/Dangling Modifiers
Avoiding Deadwood
Wordiness
Double Negatives and Hardly, Barely, Scarcely
Parallel Structure

“Transitions and Linking Words” (115) (p. 104)

“Using the Right Word” (692-701) (pp. 491-500)

Who, Which, That
Who, Whom

“Special Verb Forms” (737) (pp. 508-509)

Gerund/Infinitive/Participle (parallel structure)

“Types of Phrases” (754) (pp. 520-521)

Gerund/Infinitive/Participle Phrases
Prepositional Phrase
Appositive Phrase (parallel structure)

“Agreement of Subject and Verb” (761-771) (pp. 526-527)

Agreement in Number
Compound Subjects
Indefinite Pronouns
Collective Nouns
Plural Nouns
Relative Pronouns
The Verb to be

“Agreement of a Pronoun and Its Antecedent” (772-774) (p. 528)

Note the first numbers are section numbers for the older edition of Writers INC, and the page numbers are for the newer edition.