Grammar Crammer: How to Write Perfect Sentences
by Judi Kesselman-Turkel and Franklynn Peterson
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003
eISBN: 978-0-299-19133-7 | Paper: 978-0-299-19134-4
Library of Congress Classification PE1112.K43 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 428.2
eISBN: 978-0-299-19133-7 | Paper: 978-0-299-19134-4
Library of Congress Classification PE1112.K43 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 428.2
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Grammar Crammer is a concise, sensible grammar handbook that explains lucidly how to remember correct word forms and sentence structures. Useful as a reference tool for high school and beyond, it packs an entire grammar encyclopedia into just over a hundred pages.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CONTENTS
- How to Use This Book
- Clue 1: Why We Have Trouble with Grammar
- Clue 2: Why Grammar Is So Confusing
- 1:
- Nouns
- Clue 1: Most Nouns Can Follow the
- Catch 1: Some Nouns Are Also Verbs
- Catch 2: Some Nouns Are Groups of Words
- Clue 2: Most Nouns Add s to Show Plural
- Catch 3: Some Nouns Form Irregular Plurals
- Catch 4: Some Singular Nouns Have Plural Meanings
- Clue 3: Possessives Can Show More Than Possession
- Catch 5: Apostrophes Are Tricky
- Catch 6: Compound Nouns Often Replace Possessives
- Checkup Quiz
- 2:
- Pronouns
- Clue 1: Pronouns Come in Small Groups
- Catch 1: Is It I or me?
- Catch 2: Whom Isn't Dead Yet
- Clue 2: How to Tell a Possessive from a Contraction
- Clue 3: Some Pronouns Defy Logic
- Catch 3: The which/that Dilemma
- Catch 4: The whose Confusion
- Clue 4: How to Use the Pronoun one
- Clue 5: The Verbs That Follow Indefinite Pronouns
- Checkup Quiz
- 3:
- Verbs
- Clue 1: Memorize Tricky Irregular Verbs
- Catch 1: Look-Alike Verbs Trip Us Up
- Clue 2: Some Plural Subjects Take Singular Verbs
- Clue 3: Know How to Deal with Fancy Tenses
- Catch 2: Shall Isn't Dead Yet
- Clue 4: Translate Speech Properly to Paper
- Clue 5: Passive Has Its Place
- Catch 3: The Prejudice Against get
- Clue 6: A Verb Is Sometimes a Two-Word Unit
- Clue 7: Some Verbs Take Special Prepositions
- Catch 4: The Split Infinitive Has Not Yet Won Its Battle
- Clue 8: Mood Is a Sometime Thing
- Checkup Quiz
- 4:
- Modifiers
- Clue 1: -1y Words Are Not Always Adverbs, and Adverbs Are Not Always -1y Words
- Catch 1: good and well, bad and badly
- Clue 2: Which Comparisons use -er, -est; and Which Use more and most
- Catch 2: Some Words Can't Be Compared
- Catch 3: Watch the Pronouns That Follow Comparisons
- Clue 3: Don't Use Shorthand in Comparing
- Clue 4: Clear Up the than/then Confusion
- Clue 5: Other Modifiers That Trip the Unwary
- Checkup Quiz
- 5:
- Sentences
- Clue 1: Compound Sentences Show Related and Equally Important Thoughts
- Clue 2: Make Sure Your Compound Sentences Do the Right Job
- Clue 3: Complex Sentences Show Complicated Relationships Between Ideas
- Clue 4: Sentence Fragments Don't Fully Answer Questions
- Clue 5: Keep Verb Tenses Straight in Complex Sentences
- Clue 6: Keep the Subject from Shifting Within Its Sentence
- Clue 7: Complex Sentences Have a General Phrase Order
- Clue 8: Keep Adverbs and Adjectives in the Right Clause
- Checkup Quiz
- 6:
- Conjunctions and Prepositions
- Clue 1: When to Use that
- Catch 1: Don't Confuse that with who
- Catch 2: Don't Confuse that with which
- Clue 2: Some Verbs Take a Subjunctive that Clause
- Clue 3: Four Tricky Conjunction Pairs
- Clue 4: When to End a Sentence with a Preposition
- Checkup Quiz
- 7:
- Punctuation
- Clue 1: Punctuating by Ear
- Clue 2: Other Punctuation Marks
- Checkup Quiz
- Answers to Checkup Quizzes
- Index
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