Grammar for everyone : practical tools for learning and teaching grammar

✍ Scribed by Barbara Dykes

Publisher: ACER Press
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 226
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In today's contemporary society, a thorough understanding of the principles of English grammar is more important than ever before. English is now spoken by more than 500 million people around the world. It deserves to be taught with both knowledge and respect. Furthermore, students of grammar deserve the opportunity to speak and write it confidently, and correctly. Grammar provides a language to talk about language. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Part 1: Teaching grammar
Part 2: The parts of speech
Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Articles
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
Sentence forms
The apostrophe
Commas
Inverted commas
Subject and predicate
Objects --
direct and indirect
More about verbs
Participles
Perfect tenses
More about adjectives and adverbs
More punctuation
More pronouns
Emphasis
Mood
Case
Phrases
Clauses
Clause analysis
Word building
Improve the way you write and speak
A final word
Bibliography
Glossary
Index.

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