Essential English Grammar

Name: Essential English Grammar
Brand: Dover Publications
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Dover Publications (Verlag)

Erschienen am 27. April 2012

339 Seiten

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Intro
DOVER BOOKS ON LANGUAGE
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Part I - THE ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR
I - THE SENTENCE: SUBJECT AND PREDICATE
Subject and Predicate
Transposed Order
Practice in Recognizing Subjects and Predicates
2 - KINDS OF SENTENCES
Declaratave, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamatory Sentences
Finding the Subject and Predicate
Practice in Identifying Kinds of Sentences
More Practice in Recognizing Subjects and Predicates
3 - SIMPLE SUBJECT AND VERB
Recognition of Subject and Verb
The Expletive There
Verb Phrases
Practice in Finding Subject and Verb
More Practice in Finding Subject and Verb
4 - COMPOUND CONSTRUCTIONS
Practice in Finding Compound Subjects and Predicates
5 - COMPLEMENTS
Identification of Complements
Transitive and Intransitive
Practice in Finding Complements
Practice in Finding Subjects, Verbs, and Complements
6 - PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
Phrases
Prepositions and Their Objects
Infinitives
Practice in Recognizing Prepositional Phrases
7 - PARTS OF SPEECH
Practice in Using Parts of Speech
Practice in Recognizing Parts of Speech
8 - VERBS: TWO KINDS
AND COMPLEMENTS
Linking and Action Verbs
Two Kinds of Complements
Indirect Objects
Practice in Recognizing Complements
9 - FORMS AND PROPERTIES OF VERBS
Principal Parts
Irregular Verbs
Auxiliary Verbs
Properties of Verbs
Tense
Voice and Mood
Summary
Practice in Using Verb Forms
Practice in Identifying the Perfect Tenses
10 - VERBALS
Infinitives
Participles
Gerunds
Practice in Recognizing Infinitives
Practice in Recognizing Participles and Gerunds
II - NOUNS
Recognition of Nouns
Proper Nouns
Plurals
Possessive Forms
Practice in Recognizing Nouns
Practice in Using Capital Letters
Practice in Forming Plurals and Possessives
12 - PRONOUNS
Functions of Pronouns
Personal Pronouns
Compound Personal Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
Indefinite Relative Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
Indefinite Pronouns
Reciprocal Pronouns
Practice with Personal Pronouns and Adjectives
Practice in Recognizing Uses of Pronouns
Practice in Using Indefinite Pronouns
13 - APPOSITIVES
Practice in Recognizing Appositives
14 - ADJECTIVES
Kinds of Adjectives
Comparison of Adjectives
Practice in Identifying Adjectives
Practice in Distinguishing Adjectives from Pronouns
Practice in Comparing Adjectives
15 - ADVERBS
Functions of Adverbs
Forms of Adverbs
Position of Adverbs
Comparison of Adverbs
Adverbs and Adjectives Distinguished
Adverbs and Prepositions Distinguished
Practice in Recognizing Adverbs
Practice in Distinguishing Adverbs, Adjectives, and Prepositions
16 - PREPOSITIONS
Listing and Functions
Should a Sentence End with a Preposition?
Practice in Identifying Prepositional Phrases
17 - CONJUNCTIONS
Coordinating Conjunctions
Correlative Conjunctions
Subordinating Conjunctions
Practice in Recognizing Coordinating Conjunctions
Practice in Recognizing Subordinating Conjunctions
18 - KINDS OF SENTENCES
CLAUSES
Kinds of Clauses
Kinds of Sentences
Practice in Recognizing Kinds of Sentences
19 - MORE ABOUT SUBORDINATE CLAUSES
Adjective Clauses
Adverb Clauses
Noun Clauses
Identifying Main and Subordinate Clauses
Practice in Identifying Adjective and Adverb Clauses
Practice in Identifying Noun Clauses
20 - A DICTIONARY OF GRAMMATICAL TERMS
Part II - PUTTING GRAMMAR TO WORK
21 - MAKING VERBS AGREE
Background
Basic Grammar
Putting It to Work
Practice in Making Verbs Agree
22 - MAKING VERB FORMS ACCURATE
Background
Basic Grammar
Putting It to Work
Practice in Supplying Parts of Irregular Verbs
Practice in Selecting Correct Verb Forms
23 - PUTTING VERBS IN THE RIGHT TENSE AND MOOD
Background
Basic Grammar
Putting It to Work
Practice in Choosing the Right Tense and Mood
24 - CHOOSING THE RIGHT CASE FOR PRONOUNS
Background
Basic Grammar
Putting It to Work
Practice in Determining the Case of Pronouns
25 - MAKING PRONOUNS AGREE WITH ANTECEDENTS
Background
Basic Grammar
Putting It to Work
Practice in Making Pronouns Agree
26 - MAKING PRONOUNS CLEAR
Background
Basic Grammar
Putting It to Work
Practice in Providing Clear Antecedents
27 - USING THE RIGHT MODIFIERS
Background
Basic Grammar
Putting It to Work
Practice in Using Modifiers Accurately
28 - USING THE RIGHT CONNECTIVES
Background
Basic Grammar
Putting It to Work
Practice in Using the Right Connectives
29 - MAKING SENTENCES COMPLETE AND UNIFIED
Background
Basic Grammar
Putting It to Work
Practice in Writing Complete Sentences
Practice in Writing Unified Sentences
30 - PLACING MODIFIERS CLEARLY
Background
Basic Grammar
Putting It to Work
Practice in Making Modifiers Clear
31 - ORGANIZING SENTENCES LOGICALLY
Background
Basic Grammar
Putting It to Work
Practice in Organizing Sentence Elements (Parallel Structure)
Part III - ANSWERS TO PRACTICE EXERCISES
ANSWERS TO PRACTICE EXERCISES
Chapter I
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
INDEX
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