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SECTION ONE MECHANICS AND PUNCTUATIONS Unit 1 Capitalization Unit 2 Italics Unit 3 Number and Numeral Unit 4 Word Division Unit 5 Punctuation Section Review SECTION TWO BUILDING WORD POWER Unit 1 Levels of Diction Unit 2 General vs． Specific Words; Abstract vs． Concrete Words Unit 3 Denotation vs． Connotation Unit 4 Using Words Effectively Unit 5 Figures of Speech Section Review SECTION THREE BUILDING SENTENCE SKILLSUnit 1 Sentence Basics Unit 2 Sentence Types Unit 3 Using Sentences Effectively Unit 4 Solving Common Sentence Problems Section ReviewSECTION FOUR DEVELOPING PARAGRAPHS Unit 1 Topic Sentence Unit 2 Patterns of Paragraph Development Unit 3 Paragraph Unity and Coherence Unit 4 Special ParagraphsSection Review KEYS TO THE EXERCISES

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Unit FocusFunction and usage of capitalization in writingTuning-in ActivityWork in pairs for the following quiz.Add capital letters in the appropriate places in the following sentences.1. i study at xiangtan university.2. my father reads china daily every day.3. my english teacher, mr. Johnson, speaks French, Arabic and german, and he is a christian.4. when i was studying in the united states, I saw how American people celebrate christmas.5. on the first of october, we celebrate the founding of the people’s republic of china.Focus: When and How to Capitalize• Capitalize the first word of a sentence or direct quotationHe often goes to the municipal library on Sundays.“ What happened to ‘Jackie’?” I wanted to know.“ There I was not,” I said, “before ‘Jack’ cropped up in our family, so why should I try totrace it that far back?”Note: If a quoted sentence is broken into two parts and put in two pairs of quotation marks, the secondpart does not begin with a capital letter unless the first word is a proper noun or an adjective derivedfrom a proper noun.• Capitalize names of persons and the word I.After I made observations for a week, Mr. Hobbs asked me for a report of my findings.There is no more romantic figure in history than Alexander, the son of Philip, King of Macedonia.• Capitalize names of particular places.John graduated from Harvard University, USA.We’ve decided to spend our summer vacation in Beijing.• Capitalize names of days of the week, months and holidays.We don’t have to go to school on Sundays.The Christmas season lasts from Christmas Eve till after New Year’s Day.• Capitalize names of commercial products.He prefers a Lenovo cell phone to a Motorola.Coca-Cola is the world’s leading soft drink.• Capitalize titles of books, magazines, newspapers, articles, stories, poems, films,television shows, songs, papers, and the like.Last Friday evening, we went to the theater to watch Shakespeare’s play King Lear.While I was waiting for my mother, I read an article in China Daily.• Capitalize names of companies, associations, unions, clubs, religious and politicalgroups and other organization.Li Ming is a Buddhist, but his mother is a Christian.Large for-profit firms such as Microsoft, Sony, FedEx, Wal-Mart, IBM, and Marriott usemarketing.• Capitalize names of historical periods and events.The Second World War (World War Ⅱ ) broke out in 1939.