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Buying and teaching from this book will do your students irreparable harm. The author does not understand sentence structure or verb usage. Most seriously, she confuses active and passive voice with transitive and intransitive verbs. She also privileges passive voice over sentences beginning with expletives, a choice that will result in poorly written essays. Teachers who inherit the students who have learned from this book will have to undo all the damage done by instructing students that, for instance, the verb "to smell" is a passive verb. I have cancelled my course adoption of this book and suggest that others do likewise.