Grammar By Diagram - Second Edition: Understanding English Grammar Through Traditional Sentence DiagramingBroadview Press, 2006/07/10 - 456 ページ 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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The Eight Parts of Speech | 17 |
Basic Sentence Patterns for Be and Linking Verbs | 45 |
Basic Sentence Patterns for Intransitive and Transitive Verbs | 63 |
Usage Problems Associated with Adjectives and Adverbs | 101 |
Combining and Expanding Patterns Compound Structures | 117 |
Combining and Expanding Patterns Complex Sentences with Noun Clauses | 131 |
Combining and Expanding Patterns Complex Sentences with Adverb and Relative Clauses and the CompoundComplex Sentence | 145 |
Usage Problems of Case Agreement and Consistency | 179 |
Punctuation and Capitalization | 275 |
Sentence Transformations | 319 |
Additional Exercises no answers provided | 339 |
Verb Conjugations See and Be | 343 |
Irregular and Troublesome Verb Forms | 347 |
Summary of Clauses and Verbals | 351 |
Diagraming Summary | 355 |
Commonly Confused Words | 361 |