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- Höfundar: Lesley J. Ward, Geraldine Woods
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 2013-03-15
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- Format:Page Fidelity
- ISBN 13: 9781118717011
- Print ISBN: 9780470057520
- ISBN 10: 1118717015
Efnisyfirlit
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- How to Use This Book
- What You Are Not to Read
- Foolish Assumptions
- How This Book Is Organised
- Icons Used in This Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part I: The Parts of Speech and Parts of the Sentence
- Chapter 1: I Already Know How to Talk. Why Should I Study Grammar?
- Living Better with Better Grammar
- Deciding Which Grammar to Learn
- Distinguishing between the Three Englishes
- Using the Right English at the Right Time
- Chapter 2: Verbs: The Heart of the Sentence
- Linking Verbs: The Giant Equals Sign
- Completing Linking Verb Sentences Correctly
- Placing the Proper Pronoun in the Proper Place
- Lights! Camera! Action Verb!
- Getting by with a Little Help from My Verbs
- Pop the Question: Locating the Verb
- To Be or Not to Be: Infinitives
- Chapter 3: Relax! Understanding Verb Tense
- Simplifying Matters: The Simple Tenses
- Using the Tenses Correctly
- Perfecting Grammar: The Perfect Tenses
- Using the Present Perfect Tense Correctly
- Present Participles
- It’s All Highly Irregular
- Chapter 4: Who’s Doing What? Finding the Subject
- Who’s Driving? or Why the Subject Is Important
- Pop the Question: Locating the Subject–Verb Pair
- What’s a Nice Subject Like You Doing in a Place Like This? Unusual Word Order
- Find That Subject! Detecting an Implied You
- Striking Out on Their Own: Non-finite Verbs
- Masquerading as Subjects: Here and There
- Subjects Aren’t Just a Singular Sensation: Forming the Plural of Nouns
- When the Subject Is a Number
- Chapter 5: Having It All: The Complete Sentence
- Completing Sentences: The Essential Subjects and Verbs
- Complete Thoughts, Complete Sentences
- Taking an Incomplete: Fragment Sentences
- Could This Really Be the End? Understanding Endmarks
- Chapter 6: Handling Complements
- Being on the Receiving End: Direct Objects
- One Step Removed: Indirect Objects
- No Bias Here: Objective Complements
- Finishing the Equation: Linking-Verb Complements
- Pop the Question: Locating the Complement
- Pop the Question: Finding the Indirect Object
- Pronouns as Objects and Subject Complements
- Chapter 1: I Already Know How to Talk. Why Should I Study Grammar?
- Chapter 7: Getting Hitched: Marrying Sentences
- Matchmaking: Combining Sentences Legally
- Boss and Employee: Joining Ideas of Unequal Ranks
- Employing Pronouns to Combine Sentences
- Chapter 8: Do You Feel Bad or Badly? The Lowdown on Adjectives and Adverbs
- Adding Adjectives
- Stalking the Common Adverb
- Distinguishing Between Adjectives and Adverbs
- Avoiding Common Mistakes with Adjectives and Adverbs
- Chapter 9: Prepositions, Interjections and Articles
- Proposing Relationships: Prepositions
- Interjections Are Easy!
- Articles: Not Just for Magazines Any More
- Chapter 10: Everyone Brought Their Homework: Pronouns
- Pairing Pronouns with Nouns
- Deciding between Singular and Plural Pronouns
- Using Possessive Pronouns
- Positioning Pronoun–Antecedent Pairs
- More Pronoun Problems
- Chapter 11: Just Nod Your Head: About Agreement
- Writing Singular and Plural Verbs
- Easier Than Marriage Counselling: Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
- Choosing Verbs for Two Subjects
- The Question of Questions
- Negative Statements and Subject– Verb Agreement
- The Distractions: Prepositional Phrases and Other Irrelevant Words
- Can’t We All Just Get Along? Agreement with Difficult Subjects
- Chapter 12: Apostrophes
- The Pen of My Aunt or My Aunt’s Pen? Using Apostrophes to Show Possession
- Possession with Company Names
- Ownership with Hyphenated Words
- Possessives of Nouns that End in s
- Common Apostrophe Errors with Pronouns
- Shortened Words for Busy People: Contractions
- Using Apostrophes with Symbols, Abbreviations and Numbers
- Chapter 13: Quotations: More Rules than Revenue & Customs
- Scare Quotes
- Brackets
- Quotations
- Speech
- Punctuating Titles: When to Use Quotation Marks
- Chapter 14: The Pause That Refreshes: Commas
- Distinguishing Items: Commas in Lists
- Separating Adjectives
- You Talkin’ to Me? Direct Address
- Using Commas in Addresses and Dates
- Flying Solo: Introductory Words
- Chapter 15: Adding Information: Semicolons, Dashes and Colons
- Gluing Complete Thoughts Together: Semicolons
- Creating a Stopping Point: Colons
- Giving Additional Information – Dashes
- Chapter 16: CAPITAL LETTERS
- Capitalising (or Not) References to People
- Capitalising Geography: Directions, Places and Languages
- Marking Seasons and Other Times
- Schooling: Courses, Years and Subjects
- Writing Capitals in Book and Other Titles
- Concerning Historical Capitals: Events and Eras
- If U Cn Rd Ths, U Cn Abbreviate
- Giving the Last Word to the Poet
- Chapter 17: Pronouns and Their Cases
- Me Like Tarzan: Choosing Subject Pronouns
- Using Pronouns as Direct and Indirect Objects
- Pronouns of Possession: No Exorcist Needed
- Dealing with Pronouns and –ing Nouns
- Chapter 18: Fine-Tuning Verbs
- Giving Voice to Verbs
- Making the Better Choice? Active or Passive Voice
- Putting It in Order: Sequence of Tenses
- Mix and Match: Combining the Past and Present
- Chapter 19: Saying What You Want to Say: Descriptive Words and Phrases
- Ruining a Perfectly Good Sentence: Misplaced Descriptions
- Keeping Your Audience Hanging: Danglers
- Avoiding Confusing Descriptions
- Chapter 20: Good, Better, Best: Comparisons
- Ending It with –er or Giving It More
- Breaking the Rules: Irregular Comparisons
- Never More Perfect: Using Words That You Can’t Compare
- Leaving Your Audience in Suspense: Incomplete Comparisons
- Spock was Better than any First Officer in Star Fleet: Illogical Comparisons
- Two for the Price of One: Double Comparisons
- Chapter 21: Keeping Your Balance
- Constructing Balanced Sentences
- Shifting Grammar into Gear: Avoiding Stalled Sentences
- Seeing Double: Conjunction Pairs
- Chapter 22: The Last Word on Verbs
- Getting a Feel for Everyday Verbs: The Indicative Mood
- Commanding Your Verbs: The Imperative Mood
- Discovering the Possibilities: The Subjunctive Mood
- I Can’t Help But Think This Rule Is Crazy: Deleting Double Negatives
- Can’t Hardly Understand This Rule: Yet Another Double Negative
- Chapter 23: The Last Word on Pronouns
- Knowing the Difference Between Who/Whoever and Whom/Whomever
- Studying Improper Antecedents
- Matching Verbs to Pronouns in Complicated Sentences
- This, That and the Other: Clarifying Vague Pronoun References
- Its or Their? Selecting Pronouns for Collective Nouns
- Pronouns, Inc.: Using Pronouns with Company Names
- Chapter 24: The Last Word on Sentence Structure
- Understanding the Basics of Clause and Effect
- Playing Truant
- Spicing Up Boring Sentences
- Chapter 25: The Last Word on Punctuation
- Making Your Point Clear with Commas
- Saving Time with Ellipsis
- H-y-p-h-e-n-a-t-i-n-g Made Easy
- Slashing Your Sentences
- Chapter 26: Ten Ways Two to Improve Your Proofreading
- Read Like a Professional Proofreader
- Read Backwards
- Wait a While
- Read It Aloud
- Delete Half the Commas
- Swap with a Friend
- Let the Computer Help
- Check the Sentence Length
- The Usual Suspects
- Draw up a Checklist
- Chapter 27: Ten Ways to Learn Better Grammar
- Read Good Books
- Watch Good Television
- Read the Newspaper
- Flip through Magazines
- Visit Nerd Hangouts
- Check Out Strunk and White
- Listen to Authorities
- Review Manuals of Style
- Surf the Internet
- Build Your Own Reference Library
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- Höfundur : 10574
- Útgáfuár : 2013
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