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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... meaning " foreigners . " From " wealas ' comes the name " Wales , " the area of England where many of the Celts settled and where today Welsh remains a living language . The Anglo - Saxon language , or Old English , absorbed only about ...
... MEANING AND HISTORY OF GRAMMAR Having had a glimpse of the rich history of English , we turn now to consider the history of its grammar . Grammar is a subset of a larger discipline , linguistics . Linguistics includes the study of ...
... meaning " of or pertaining to letters or literature . " This is an apt root since in clas- sical Greek and Latin “ grammar " included the study of literature as well as of language . We can trace our modern word from the Greek form , to ...
... meaning rather than jumping imme- diately to whole - word units . In addition , keep in mind that there is no magic to the phrase " eight parts of speech . " Other texts may describe five parts of speech , or eleven , or skip this ...
... meaning . You may also find , as many of my students have , that knowing how to dia- gram will improve your writing , will give you a teaching tool if you are helping others analyze sentences , and may even land you a job . One student ...
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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 |