Building Better Grammar
, by Hogan, GinaNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780495905141 | 0495905143
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/2012
The Building Better series evolved with developmental students in mind; however, the textbooks are designed to be inexpensive and flexible enough that all college students or writing instructors can use them as a quick reference guide.
Preface | p. viii |
Subjects, Verbs, and Subject-Verb Agreement | |
The First Building Block Subjects | p. 2 |
Nouns | p. 3 |
Singular and Plural Nouns | p. 4 |
Types of Nouns | p. 4 |
Pronouns | p. 8 |
Subject Pronouns | p. 8 |
Indefinite Pronouns | p. 10 |
Identifying the Subject | p. 11 |
Simple and Compound Subjects | p. 12 |
Recognizing Subjects in Tricky Situations | p. 14 |
Subjects in Imperative Sentences | p. 15 |
Subjects as Distinct from Prepositional Phrases | p. 16 |
Subjects in Declarative Sentences with Here and There | p. 18 |
Subjects in Interrogative Sentences | p. 19 |
Sentences with Gerunds and Infinitives as Subjects | p. 20 |
Infinitives | p. 20 |
Chapter One Skills Review: Subjects | p. 25 |
The Second Building Block Verbs | p. 26 |
Action and Being Verbs | p. 26 |
Simple and Compound Verbs | p. 28 |
Verb Tenses | p. 29 |
The Simple Tense | p. 30 |
Simple Present | p. 30 |
Simple Past | p. 32 |
Simple Future | p. 33 |
The Perfect Tense | p. 34 |
Present Perfect | p. 35 |
Past Perfect | p. 35 |
Future Perfect | p. 36 |
The Progressive Tense | p. 37 |
Present Progressive | p. 38 |
Past Progressive | p. 38 |
Future Progressive | p. 38 |
The Perfect Progressive Tense | p. 40 |
Present Perfect Progressive | p. 40 |
Past Perfect Progressive | p. 40 |
Future Perfect Progressive | p. 40 |
Regular and Irregular Verbs | p. 44 |
Regular Verbs | p. 45 |
Tricky Situations with Regular Verbs | p. 45 |
Irregular Verbs | p. 47 |
Tricky Situations with Irregular Verbs | p. 50 |
Verb Tense Consistency | p. 53 |
Active and Passive Voice | p. 56 |
Chapter Two Skills Review: Verbs | p. 59 |
The Third Building Block Subject-Verb Agreement | p. 61 |
Subject-Verb Agreement | p. 61 |
Rules for Subject-Verb Agreement | p. 62 |
Singular Subject Rules | p. 63 |
Plural Subject Rules | p. 65 |
Subject Agreement and Regular and Irregular Verbs | p. 66 |
Tricky Situations in Subject-Verb Agreement | p. 69 |
Sentences That Start with Prepositional Phrases | p. 69 |
Sentence Starting with Here, There, What, Where, and Why | p. 70 |
Sentences with Either/or, Neither/nor, and Or | p. 72 |
Sentences with Interrupters | p. 73 |
Chapter Three Skills Review: Subject-Verb Agreement | p. 78 |
Pronouns | |
The Fourth Building Block Pronouns | p. 82 |
Pronoun Usage | p. 82 |
Subjective Case | p. 83 |
Objective Case | p. 86 |
Possessive Case | p. 88 |
Other Pronouns | p. 89 |
Who vs. Whom | p. 89 |
Demonstrative Pronouns | p. 90 |
Relative Pronouns | p. 92 |
Interrogative Pronouns | p. 93 |
Reflexive Pronouns | p. 94 |
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement | p. 95 |
Pronoun Agreement with Person | p. 96 |
Pronoun Agreement with Number | p. 97 |
Tricky Situations with Pronouns and Numbers | p. 98 |
Pronoun Agreement with Gender | p. 101 |
Chapter Four Skills Review: Pronouns | p. 106 |
Clauses and Kinds of Sentences | |
The Fifth Building Block Clauses | p. 110 |
Clauses | p. 110 |
Types of Clauses | p. 112 |
Independent Clause: A Clause That Makes Sense on Its Own | p. 112 |
Dependent Clause: A Clause That Requires More Information to Make Complete Sense | p. 113 |
Chapter Five Skills Review: Clauses | p. 119 |
The Sixth Building Block Kinds of Sentences | p. 120 |
Simple Sentences | p. 120 |
Sentence Variety | p. 122 |
Joining Independent Clauses: Compound Sentences | p. 123 |
Coordinating Conjunctions | p. 123 |
Adverbial Conjunctions | p. 126 |
Semicolons | p. 129 |
Joining an Independent Clause with a Dependent Clause: Complex Sentences | p. 133 |
Subordinating Conjunctions | p. 133 |
Joining Multiple Independent and Dependent Clauses: Compound-Complex Sentences | p. 139 |
Chapter Six Skills Review 1: Kinds of Sentences | p. 145 |
Chapter Six Skills Review 2: Sentence Combining | p. 146 |
The Seventh Building Block Avoiding Common Sentence Errors | p. 150 |
Fragments | p. 150 |
Run-ons | p. 155 |
Comma Splices | p. 157 |
Chapter Seven Skills Review: Common Sentence Errors | p. 162 |
Descriptors, Modifiers, Parallelism | |
The Eighth Building Block Adjectives and Adverbs as Modifiers | p. 166 |
Descriptive Modifiers | p. 166 |
Adjectives | p. 167 |
Adverbs | p. 169 |
Common Mistakes with Adjectives and Adverbs | p. 172 |
Comparative and Superlative Forms | p. 173 |
Regular Adjectives and Adverbs | p. 173 |
Irregular Adjectives and Adverbs | p. 175 |
Four More Tricky Adjectives and Adverbs | p. 176 |
Chapter Eight Skills Review: Adjectives and Adverbs | p. 180 |
The Ninth Building Block Using Modifiers Correctly | p. 182 |
Misplaced Modifiers | p. 182 |
Dangling Modifiers | p. 186 |
Chapter Nine Skills Review: Dangling or Misplaced Modifiers | p. 191 |
The Tenth Building Block Parallelism | p. 192 |
Parallelism | p. 192 |
Parallelism with Pairs | p. 193 |
Parallelism with Lists | p. 193 |
Parallelism in Comparisons (Than or As) | p. 196 |
Parallelism with Paired Expressions | p. 198 |
Chapter Ten Skills Review: Parallelism | p. 202 |
Punctuation | |
The Eleventh Building Block Comma Use | p. 206 |
Commas Used to Separate | p. 206 |
Commas and Conjunctions | p. 206 |
Commas and Items in a List | p. 209 |
Commas and Introductory Expressions | p. 210 |
Commas to Enclose | p. 211 |
Commas and Interrupters | p. 211 |
Commas and Direct Address | p. 213 |
Commas with Dates and Addresses | p. 214 |
Chapter Eleven Skills Review: Commas | p. 218 |
The Twelfth Building Block Other Types of Punctuation | p. 220 |
Apostrophe | p. 220 |
Semicolon | p. 223 |
Colon: | p. 224 |
Dash - and Parenthesis () | p. 226 |
Hyphen - | p. 229 |
Quotation Marks " " | p. 230 |
Chapter Twelve Skills Review: Punctuation | p. 236 |
Appendices | |
Parts of Speech | p. 239 |
Nouns | p. 239 |
Pronouns | p. 239 |
Verbs | p. 240 |
Adjectives | p. 241 |
Adverbs | p. 241 |
Prepositions | p. 242 |
Conjunctions | p. 242 |
Interjections | p. 244 |
Appendix A Skills Review: Identifying Parts of Speech | p. 244 |
Spelling | p. 246 |
Create Spelling Lists | p. 247 |
Learn the eilie rule | p. 247 |
Know Commonly Misspelled Words | p. 247 |
Know Commonly Confused Words | p. 249 |
Know Word Endings | p. 252 |
Appendix B Skills Review: Spelling | p. 253 |
English as a Second Language Concerns | p. 254 |
Nouns | p. 254 |
Articles | p. 255 |
Verbs | p. 256 |
Prepositions | p. 257 |
Appendix C Skills Review: ESL Concerns | p. 258 |
Index | p. 260 |
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