Title:
The writer's grammar
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Publication Information:
New York : Pearson/Longman, 2004
ISBN:
9780321095701
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Summary
Summary
Based on the belief that writing is essentially a positive act, The Writer's Grammar assumes that students have an intuitive sense of correct grammar and focuses on helping them learn by building on what they already know.
Table of Contents
| 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-sEnding and Its Uses: Plural Nouns |
| 13 The-sEnding: Third Person Singular Present Tense Verbs |
| 14 The-sEnding: Possessive Nouns and Pronouns |
| 15 The-sEnding: Spelling |
| 16 The-dEnding and Its Uses: Past Tense Verbs |
| 17 The-dEnding: Past Participles as Verb Parts |
| 18 The-dEnding: Past Participles as Adjectives |
| 19 The-dEnding: Root Words |
| 20 The-ingEnding and Its Uses: Present Participles as Verb Parts |
| 21 The-ingEnding: Present Participles as Nouns |
| 22 The-ingEnding: Present Participles as Adjectives |
| 23 The-ingEnding 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 |
