Grammar By Diagram - Second Edition
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Grammar By Diagram - Second Edition

Understanding English Grammar Through Traditional Sentence Diagraming

Cindy L. Vitto

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Grammar By Diagram - Second Edition

Understanding English Grammar Through Traditional Sentence Diagraming

Cindy L. Vitto

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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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Publisher
Broadview Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9781770481367
Edition
2
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Grammar & Punctuation
Index
Languages & Linguistics
1
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17
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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

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