Descriere - Essential English Grammar. Improve Your Written and Spoken English
Websters Word Power
Painfree Better English Grammar aims to help you improve your written and spoken English through understanding the structure of the English language.
This is a thorough, useful book with all parts of speech and grammar and using the exercises and answers will help you to feel more confident.
Used by ELT self-study students.Don't let the thought of reading and writing in English fill you with horror, this accessible book is a pain-free route to writing comprehensibly and confidently.
CONTENTS
BETTER ENGLISH GRAMMAR
GRAMMAR
THE SENTENCE AND THE PARAGRAPH
The sentence
Minor sentences
Major sentences
Subject and predicate
Subject
Predicate
Object
Direct object
Indirect object
Complement
Punctuation of sentences
Types of sentence
Statements
Negative sentences
Questions
Yes-no questions
Tag questions
Wh-questions
Alternative questions
Exclamatory questions
Rhetorical questions
Question by tone of voice
Directives
Exclamations
Kinds of sentence
Simple sentences
Multiple sentences
Compound sentences
Complex sentences
The paragraph
EXERCISES 1
ANSWERS 1
CLAUSES, PHRASES AND PHRASAL VERBS
Clauses
Main clause
Punctuation and main clauses
Subordinate clause
Adverbial clause
Types of adverbial clause
adverbial clause of time
adverbial clause of place
adverbial clause of purpose
adverbial clause of reason
adverbial clause of result
adverbial clause of condition
adverbial clause of manner
adverbial clause of concession
Comparative clause
Relative clause
Types of relative clause
Defining relative clause
Non-defining relative clause
Punctuation in relative clauses
Prepositions in relative clauses
Noun clause or nominal clause
Comment clause
Phrases
Noun phrase
Adjective phrase
Adverb phrase
Preposition phrase
Participial phrase
Phrasal verbs
Position of object in phrasal verbs
EXERCISES 2
ANSWERS 2
PARTS of Speech I
Main parts of speech
Nouns
Common and proper nouns
Concrete and abstract nouns
Countable and uncountable nouns
Verbal noun
Collective nouns
Singular and plural forms of nouns
Regular singular forms of nouns
Regular plural forms of nouns
Irregular plural forms of nouns
Foreign plural forms of nouns
Unchanging plural form
Nouns used only in the plural form
Gender of nouns
Dual gender
Feminine forms
Person in compound nouns
Compound nouns
Plural forms of compound nouns
Nouns and noun phrases in apposition
Pronouns
Personal pronouns
I and we: the first person personal pronoun
You: the second person personal pronoun
He, she, it and they: the third person personal pronoun
Possessive pronouns
Reflexive pronouns
Reciprocal pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns
Indefinite pronouns
Distributive pronouns
Interrogative pronouns
Relative pronouns
EXERCISES 3
ANSWERS 3
PARTS OF SPEECH II
Adjectives
Gradable and non-gradable adjectives
Position of adjectives
Attributive adjectives
Predicative adjectives
Post-modifiers
Qualitative adjectives
Classifying adjectives
Colour adjectives
Number adjectives
Emphatic adjectives
Interrogative adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives
Possessive adjectives
Compound adjectives
Order of adjectives
Adjectives used as nouns
Adjective or adverb?
Comparative forms of adjectives
Comparative and number of syllables
Irregular comparatives
No comparative form
Superlative forms
Irregular superlatives
No superlative form
Determiners
Types of determiner
Definite and indefinite articles
Definite article
Indefinite article
Demonstrative determiners
Possessive determiners
Indefinite determiners
Number determiners
EXERCISES 4
ANSWERS 4
PARTS OF SPEECH III
Verbs
Regular verbs
Irregular verbs
Categories of irregular verbs
Tense
Present tense
Simple present tense
Continuous present tense
Past tense
Simple past tense
Continuous past tense
Perfect tense
Continuous present perfect tense
Past perfect tense
Future tense
Traditional grammar
Modern usage
Other ways of referring to the future
Mood
Indicative mood
Imperative mood
Subjunctive mood
Voice
Active voice
Passive voice
Transitive verb and intransitive verb
Linking verb
Auxiliary verb
Modal auxiliary verb
Concord
Parts of a verb
Infinitive
Participles
Present participle
Past participle
EXERCISES 5
ANSWERS 5
PARTS OF SPEECH IV
Adverbs
Types of adverb
Adverbs of time
Adverbs of frequency
Adverbs of duration
Adverbs of place
Adverbs of manner
Adverbs of degree
Adverbs of emphasis
Interrogative adverbs
Prepositions
Simple prepositions
Complex prepositions
Conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions introducing adverbial clauses
EXERCISES 6
ANSWERS 6
PUNCTUATION
THE IMPORTANCE OF PUNCTUATION
Full stop
The full stop and abbreviations
The full stop in email and website addresses
Question mark
Exclamation mark
Capital letter
EXERCISES 7
ANSWERS 7
Comma
The comma as separating device in lists
The comma as a separating device in a list of adjectives
Commas and relative clauses
Commas and subordinate clauses
The comma as a separating device in clauses joined by coordinating conjunctions
The comma as separating device with initial phrases
The comma with terms of address
The comma with question tags
The comma with interjections
The comma used in pairs as a means of separation or parenthesis
The comma with nouns or phrases in apposition
The comma and numbers
EXERCISES 8
ANSWERS 8
Brackets
Dash
Semicolon
The semicolon as a link
The semicolon as a separation device in lists
The semicolon as separation device in lists of word groups already containing commas
The semicolon as a separation device before certain adverbs
Colon
The colon as a separating device in a two-part sentence
The colon as a linking device or introduction
EXERCISES 9
ANSWERS 9
Hyphen
The hyphen in word-breaks
EXERCISES 10
ANSWERS 10
Quotation marks
Quotation marks and direct speech
Quotation marks and paragraphs
Quotation marks and dialogue
Other uses of quotation marks
Quotation marks and titles
Quotation marks and a direct quotation
EXERCISES 11
ANSWERS 11
Other punctuation marks
Apostrophe
Asterisk
Three-dot ellipsis
Oblique
EXERCISES 12
ANSWERS 12
DEVELOPING YOUR OWN STYLE
STYLE
Sentence style
Sentence length
The middle way
Sentence structure
Compound sentences
Complex sentences
Vocabulary
Active and passive vocabulary
Increasing your word power
Dictionaries and thesauruses
Register
Keep it simple
Adding variety
EXERCISES 13
ANSWERS 13
EXERCISES 14
ANSWERS 14
WORDS THAT MAY CONFUSE
IDIOMS, CLICHÉS AND EVERYDAY PHRASES
Common idioms
Clichés
Everyday phrases
Homophones
Homonyms
Homographs and heteronyms
For ages 12-17
Format Paperback | 256 pages
Dimensions 124 x 193 x 23mm | 250g
Publication date 01 May 2014
Publisher The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd
Imprint Geddes & Grosset
Publication City/Country Glasgow, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN10 1842057588
ISBN13 9781842057582
