This book uses a light, yet focused and practical approach that focuses on functional grammar problems and respects and encourages the students' innate “ear” for grammar. Clear, step-by-step explanations and a wide variety of reinforcement drills and exercises — aural, oral, editing, and writing — help students learn the differences between appropriate and inappropriate usage. Provides abundant exercises — including paragraphs for editing and sentences for reading aloud.
1. The Basic Sentence. 2. Building Sentences. 3. Avoiding Non-Sentences. 4. Verbs — An Overview. 5. Regular and Irregular Verbs. 6. Subject-Verb Agreement. 7. Problems with Verbs. 8. Using Pronouns Correctly. 9. Pronoun Problems.10. Distinguishing Between Adjectives and Adverbs.11. Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers.12. Using Prepositions.13. Punctuation You Can Hear.14. Punctuation You Can't Hear.Index.