Basic English grammar for dummies.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
For Dummies,
2015.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781119071136 1119071135 9781119071143 1119071143 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond the Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Getting Started with Basic English Grammar; Chapter 1: Getting a Grip on Grammar; Getting to Know the Elements of Proper English; Building Language, Block by Block: Parts of Speech; Making Sentences; Small but Important: Punctuating, Capitalising and Spelling; Facing Everyday Writing Tasks; Chapter 2: Language in Action; Adjusting Language to Suit Your Audience; Getting Help from Spelling and Grammar Checkers.
- Recognising Your Grammar ProfilePart II: The Parts of Speech; Chapter 3: People to See, Places to Go, Things to Remember: Recognising Nouns; Identifying Nouns; Sorting Out Singular and Plural Nouns; Attaching 'This', 'These' and Other Words to Nouns; Chapter 4: Practising Pronouns; Replacing Nouns with Pronouns; Solving the Case of Pronouns; Forming Possessive Pronouns; Chapter 5: Doing and Being Words: Verbs; Searching Out Verbs; Asking Questions to Find the Verb; Telling Time with Verbs; Recognising Forms of Some Important Verbs; Getting Assistance from Helping Verbs.
- Chapter 6: Describing with Adjectives and AdverbsAdding Detail with Adjectives; Writing Well with Adverbs; Choosing Between Adjectives and Adverbs; Placing 'A' and 'An' in the Proper Place; Making Comparisons with Adjectives and Adverbs; Chapter 7: Little Things Mean a Lot: Prepositions; Recognising Prepositions; Identifying Objects of Prepositions; Choosing Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions; Placing Prepositional Phrases in the Proper Place; Chapter 8: Joining and Commenting: Conjunctions and Interjections; Linking Ideas with Conjunctions; Identifying Interjections.
- Part III: Creating Correct SentencesChapter 9: Making Progress: Verbs Ending in -ing; Keeping Time with -ing Verb Forms; Choosing Between Simple and Progressive Tenses; Some Help with Spelling -ing Verb Forms; Chapter 10: Revisiting the Past: The Perfect Tenses; Building a Bridge between the Present and the Past: Present Perfect Tense; Placing Events in Order with Past Perfect Tense; Breaking the Rules: Irregular Past Forms; Glancing at the Future Perfect Tense; Chapter 11: Searching for Subjects; Locating the Subject of a Sentence; Matching Subjects and Verbs Properly.
- Dealing with Tricky SubjectsChapter 12: Adding Meaning with Complements; Surveying Complements; Popping the Question to Identify Objects and Subject Complements; Choosing the Proper Complement Pronoun; Chapter 13: Finishing the Job: Writing Complete Sentences; Half Way Is Not Enough: Expressing aComplete Thought; Cooking Up a Complete Sentence: The Essential Subject-Verb Pair; Ending Sentences with Proper Punctuation; Changing the Rules for Texting; Part IV: Punctuation and Capitalisation; Chapter 14: Small Punctuation Mark, Big Trouble: Apostrophes.