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Mastering English for CXC

Mastering English for CXC provides a full two-year course for students in the fourth and fifth years of Caribbean Secondary Schools. The book revises and develops all the language skills that students need to help them achieve the best results in their examination.
Print Book, English, 2002
Nelson Thornes, Cheltenham, 2002
Juvenile works
xi, 283 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
9780175664580, 0175664587
49988583
Part 1: responding to literature - a strange story; responding to literature - over the seas and far away; grammar - sentences and full stops. Part 2: responding to literature - memories of an early schooling; reading comprehension - the Internet versus hurricane damage; grammar - subject-verb agreement; writing a report 1. Part 3: responding to literature - Manu; research and writing; responding to literature - moving again; grammar - basic sentence patterns; punctuation - the full stop or period; punctuation - the question mark; factual writing - relating an incident. Part 4: responding to literature - a front seat in a war; understanding poetry - I shall return; punctuation - the comma; punctuation - quotation marks or inverted commas; personal writing. Part 5: responding to literature - Samdaye; understanding poetry - grass; reading comprehension - the breakfast shed; grammar - transformations; writing - business letters. Part 6: responding to literature - Helen, my double; reading comprehension - a unique way to study; letter writing; grammar - the past tense, past participles, subject-verb agreement. Part 7: responding to literature - the beginning of a friendship; grammar - simple sentences, phrases, clauses and complex sentences, compound sentences, types of subordinate clauses and phrases; writing -summary skills 1. Part 8: responding to literature - Miss Gladys; understanding poetry - there will come soft rains; grammar - the passive; writing - narrative writing 1. (Part contents).