Grammar a friendly approach
Title:
Grammar a friendly approach
Author:
Sinclair, Christine.
ISBN:
9780335230235
9781281129734
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, 2007.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 158 p.) : ill.
Series:
Open up study skills
Open up study skills.
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Bad language -- 3. Mangling and dangling participles -- 4. Getting tense with verbs -- 5. Active and passive voices -- 6. What is the subject? -- 7. The complete sentence -- 8. Relationships and relatives -- 9. How to be offensive with punctuation -- 10. Possessive apostrophes and missing letters -- 11. Checking the checker -- 12. Finale -- 13. Glossary -- Appendices: 1. More details on parts of speech -- 2. More details on clauses -- 3. Warning signs.
Abstract:
Brings grammar to life by giving examples of grammatical problems in the contexts where they arise by including a soap opera. This book explains aspects of grammar, language use and punctuation such as: Academic language; Standard English; Correct use of tenses; Active and passive voices; Sentence construction and punctuation; and more.
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