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Grammar By Diagram - Second Edition
Understanding English Grammar Through Traditional Sentence Diagraming
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eBook - PDF
Grammar By Diagram - Second Edition
Understanding English Grammar Through Traditional Sentence Diagraming
About this book
Grammar by Diagram, second edition is a book designed for anyone who wishes to improve grammatical understanding and skill. Using traditional sentence diagraming as a visual tool, the book explains how to expand simple sentences into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, and how to employ verbals (infinitives, gerunds, and participles) and other structures for additional variety.
The text addresses the most frequent usage errors by explaining how to distinguish between adjectives and adverbs; how to avoid problems of pronoun case, agreement, and consistency; how to ensure that verbs will agree with their subjects and will be appropriate in terms of tense, aspect, voice, and mood; and how to phrase sentences to avoid errors in parallelism or placement of modifiers. Six appendices incorporate further exercises, a summary of key basics from the text, and supplemental material not included in the body of the text but useful for quick reference. This new edition includes additional exercises and has been revised and updated throughout.
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Yes, you can access Grammar By Diagram - Second Edition by Cindy L. Vitto in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Grammar & Punctuation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Words
are
the
basic
building
blocks
of
any
language.
One
way
to
begin
analyzing
a
language,
then,
is
to
classify
each
word
as
belonging
to
a
distinct
category
and
to
determine
how
the
cat-
egories
work
together
to
make
meaning.
Most
of
you
are
probably
already
familiar
with
the
traditional
way
of
classifying
English
words—the
eight
parts
of
speech.
Just
for
fun,
see
if
you
can
list
all
eight
in
the
spaces
below.
(If
you’re
like
most
people,
you’ll
remember
only
six
or
seven!
Check
your
answers
by
turn-
ing
to
the
Summary
of
Key
Concepts
at
the
end
of
this
chapter.)
1. _________________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________________
4. _________________________________________________________
5. _________________________________________________________
6. _________________________________________________________
7. _________________________________________________________
8. _________________________________________________________
As
neat
and
tidy
as
this
organizational
system
seems,
though,
we
must
beware
of
assuming
that
each
word
in
English
can
be
tucked
neatly
into
one
of
these
categories
and
remain
there.
Part
of
what
makes
English
such
a
dynamic
language
is
that
the
same
word
can
be
used
as
more
than
one
part
of
speech.
Consider
the
word
“water,”
for
example,
in
the
following
sentences:
1
The
Eight
Parts
of
Speech
Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Eight Parts of Speech
- Basic Sentence Patterns for Be and Linking Verbs
- Basic Sentence Patterns for Intransitive and Transitive Verbs
- Usage Problems Associated with Adjectives and Adverbs
- Compound Structures
- Complex Sentences with Noun Clauses
- Complex Sentences with Adverb and Relative Clauses, and the Compound-Complex Sentence
- Usage Problems of Case, Agreement, and Consistency
- Verbs
- Verbals
- Usage Problems Associated with Verbs and Verbals
- Punctuation and Capitalization
- Sentence Transformations
- Additional Exercises
- Verb Conjugations
- Irregular and Troublesome Verb Forms
- Summary of Clauses and Verbals
- Diagraming Summary
- Commonly Confused Words
- Answer Key
- Index