Grammar for Everyone - Barbara Dykes 2007

Grammar for Everyone - Barbara Dykes 2007

Foreword

Dedication

Part I. Teaching grammar

Grammar - background and history

Teaching strategies for the contemporary classroom

Practical suggestions

Part II The parts of speech

Introduction

1 Nouns - Common nouns

Proper nouns

Collective nouns

Abstract nouns

Revision of nouns

Things we can say about nouns

Number

Gender

Case

2 Pronouns - Personal pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns

3 Verbs - Finite and non-finite verbs

Tense

Simple and continuous verbs

Auxiliary (helper) verbs

4 Adjectives - Adjectives formed from nouns and verbs

Words that can be used as several parts of speech

Adjectives of degree and comparison

5 Adverbs - Adverbs of time

Adverbs of place

Adverbs of manner

Interrogative adverbs

Comparative adverbs

Irregular adverbs of comparison

6 Articles - The indefinite article

The definite article

7 Prepositions

8 Conjunctions - Coordinating conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions

9 Interjections

10 Sentence forms - Statements

Questions

Commands

Exclamations

11 The apostrophe - Contractions

Possession

Avoiding confusion

12 Commas - The comma separates

A comma before the word ‘and’

13 Inverted commas

14 Subject and predicate - Abbreviations

15 Objects - direct and indirect - The direct object

The indirect object

I or me?

The complement

16 More about verbs - Subjects matching verbs

Transitive and intransitive verbs

Active and passive voice

17 Participles - Present participles

Past participles

Adjectival participles and gerunds

18 Perfect tenses - The present perfect tense

The past perfect tense (pluperfect)

The future perfect tense

19 More about adjectives and adverbs - Numeral adjectives (numbering)

Indefinite adjectives

Quantitative adjectives

Interrogative adjectives

Possessive adjectives

Adverbs of comparison

Adverbs modifying other parts of speech

Adverbs formed from adjectives

20 More punctuation - Colons

Semicolons

Hyphens

Parentheses - brackets and dashes

Ellipsis

21 More pronouns - Interrogative pronouns

Possessive pronouns

Indefinite and distributive pronouns

22 Emphasis

23 Mood - Indicative mood

Imperative mood

Subjunctive or conditional mood

24 Case - Nominative

Accusative

Dative

Genitive

Vocative

25 Phrases - Adjectival phrases

Adverbial phrases

Noun phrases

26 Clauses - Main clauses

Subordinate clauses

Adjectival clauses and relative pronouns

Adverbial clauses

Adverbial clause of time

Adverbial clause of place

Adverbial clause of reason

Adverbial clause of manner

Adverbial clause of condition

Adverbial clause of result

Adverbial clause of purpose

Adverbial clause of concession

Adverbial clause of comparison

Noun clause

27 Clause analysis - Format 1 - clause analysis chart

Format 2 - clause analysis table

Format 3 - clause analysis tree

28 Word building

29 Improve the way you speak and write - Confusion between words

Past tense and past participle

Double comparatives

Redundant adverbs

30 A final word

Bibliography

Glossary