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A complete grammar manual for elementary and secondary school students, Basic Comprehension Passages provides all round English language practice. Summary Of The Book Excellence in English grammar comes through extensive practice of all aspects of the subject. These include solving English comprehension exercises, practicing and applying the basic rules of grammar, and building a strong vocabulary. Basic Comprehension Passages brings together all these aspects of developing a strong hold on English grammar, in one place. The book is divided into four sections. The first section, Comprehension Passages, provides extensive practice in solving English comprehension passages. Exercises included after each passage comprise answering questions based on the passage. There are other exercises such as finding and choosing the right meaning for words, finding adequate references for particular words, deciding if statements are right or wrong based on the passage. There is also practice for putting sentences in the right order and using the given sentences to complete a paragraph. Vocabulary practice and topics for further discussions based on the passage are also included at the end of each passage. Cloze Practice, the next section, improves knowledge of English grammar in students by imparting extensive practice on various parts of speech such as articles, nouns, verbs, prepositions, and pronouns by means of fill in the blanks exercises. Vocabulary activities, which is the third section, includes practice of tense, singular and plural words, related words, and synonyms. These exercises help students to build a strong base of basic vocabulary, in a way in which it is fun. The last section on Dictation includes fifteen passages to be dictated to students after each comprehension passage. Basic Comprehension Passages also includes the key to all exercises at the end of the book. About Donn Byrne Donn Byrne is a meritorious professor of Psychology at the University of Albany with a Ph.D from Stanford University. Donn Byrne has written a number of books on psychology including Psychology: An Introduction to a Behavioral Science, Personality Change: An Introduction to Personality, The Attraction Paradigm, Adolescents, Sex, and Contraception, Social Psychology and Intermediate Comprehension Passages. Byrne has held a number of prestigious positions at various universities in the United States. Byrne is a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and has previously been the President of the Midwestern Psychological Association. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his children, reading and theater.