Geraldine Woods - Wiley AP English Language and Composition

Wiley AP* English Language & Composition

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Executive Editor: Lindsay Sandman Lefevere

Technical Reviewer: Elizabeth Brown

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About the Author

Geraldine Woods has taught and tutored every level of English from 5th grade through AP for the past three decades. Shes the author of more than 50 books, many published by Wiley: English Grammar For Dummies, English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, Research Papers For Dummies, College Admissions Essays For Dummies, SAT For Dummies, and Punctuation: Simplified and Applied.

Authors Acknowledgements

Many talented people helped me with this book: Robin Aufses, Ben Casnocha, Sam Goodman, Karen Ellen Johnson, Tom Katzenbach, Christopher Witcombe, and Don Yates. I owe a debt of gratitude to them all. Id also like to thank Tracy Barr and Lindsay Lefevere of Wiley, as well as my technical reviewer, Elizabeth Brown of William Henry Harrison High School in West Lafayette, Indiana.