The Longman Writer's Grammar
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Instead of focusing on identifying and avoiding grammatical errors, this text for high school students provides positive writing examples and minimizes rules and technical terms. Silber (Marymount College of Fordham U.) covers seven areas in which students have difficulty, including sentences, compound verbs, inflections and suffixes, idioms, transitional devices, homonyms and homophones, and mechanics. Each chapter contains a brief passage from published fiction or nonfiction, and writing exercises highlighting the lesson. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
UNIT I. IN THE BEGINNING IS THE SENTENCE. 1. Every Sentence Has a Subject and a Verb.2. Sentences with More Subjects, More Verbs.3. Clauses: Two Sentences in One.4. More About Clauses.5. Verbs Without Tense. UNIT II. WITH A LITTLE HELP. 6. Verbs Combined with Have.7. Verbs Combined with the Past Tense of Have.8. Verb Combinations with Be.9. Helpers Without Tense.10. A Special Kind of Helper.11. Another Special Case--Do. UNIT III. ENDINGS HAVE MEANING. 12. The -s Ending and Its Uses: Plural Nouns.13. The -s Ending: Third Person Singular Present Tense Verbs.14. The -s Ending: Possessive Nouns and Pronouns.15. The -s Ending: Spelling.16. The -d Ending and Its Uses: Past Tense Verbs.17. The -d Ending: Past Participles as Verb Parts.18. The -d Ending: Past Participles as Adjectives.19. The -d Ending: Root Words.20. The -ing Ending and Its Uses: Present Participles as Verb Parts.21. The -ing Ending: Present Participles as Nouns.22. The -ing Ending: Present Participles as Adjectives.23. The -ing Ending as Spelling.24. Endings That Form Nouns of Quality.25. Endings for Agents: -er, -or.26. Endings that Form Adjectives of Kind.27. Endings That Show More or Most: -er, -est. UNIT IV. IDIOM: WHAT WE REALLY SAY. 28. Prepositions: When, Where.29. Prepositions: How, Why.30. Prepositions: Who.31. Two-Word Verbs: Take It Off and Put It On.32. Determiners: The, A, and An.UNIT V. MAKING CONNECTIONS. 33. Conjunctions: Coordinators.34. Conjunctions: Subordinators.35. Relative Pronouns: That, Which, Who.36. Transitional Words and Phrases. UNIT VI. THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT: WHICH IS WHICH. 37. Words That Look Alike: Different Parts of Speech.38. Words That Look Alike: Different Meanings.39. Words That Sound Alike: Homophones.40. Irregular Verbs.41. Plural Nouns. UNIT VII. NUTS AND BOLTS: CAPITALIZATION AND PUNCTUATION. 42. End Punctuation: The Period.43. End Punctuation: The Question Mark.44. End Punctuation: The Exclamation Point.45. Capitalization.46. The Semi-Colon.47. The Comma: For a Series.48. The Comma: With Subordinate Clauses.49. The Comma: With Connecting Phrases.50. The Apostrophe.51. Quotation Marks.Review Exercises.Index.
