Grammar to Go: How It Works and How To Use It - Softcover

Goldstein, Barbara; Waugh, Jack; Linsky, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1133307361 ISBN 13: 9781133307365

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2012

Synopsis

Brief and basic in its coverage, GRAMMAR TO GO offers students a unique focus on sentence diagramming that helps them visualize and understand how words connect. Perfect as a primary text or as a supplement for courses with an emphasis on learning basic grammar and punctuation skills, this edition incorporates a wide range of new material to help students hone their skills including additional traditional practice sets, more integrated assignments, increased opportunities for writing practice, and expanded discussions of each chapter's content on the book specific website. A new feature, "GrammarSpeak," provides guidance on common errors in daily speech and writing.

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About the Author

Barbara Goldstein, Professor of English, has taught English composition and English grammar at Hillsborough Community College for more than 20 years. After serving as Dean of the Associate in Arts program at the Dale Mabry campus for four years, Dr. Goldstein returned to her first love, the classroom. A recipient of the Florida Association of Community College's Curriculum Commission Exemplary Practice award, she was the first director of the award-winning HCC Writing Center and currently serves as the center's faculty advisor.

Jack Waugh currently teaches World Humanities, Asian Humanities, and Honors World Humanities at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida. He serves as Program Manager for the Humanities Department. His keen interest in English grammar began when he learned diagramming from a college professor who required her students to diagram thirty sentences per class period for an entire semester. Dr. Waugh taught English for 20 years and still enjoys teaching grammar and writing classes now. One of his chief joys in teaching is seeing students actually understand the rudiments of English grammar.

Except for three years of teaching high school English in Atlanta, Karen Linsky has spent her entire teaching career at Hillsborough Community College. She has taught a wide variety of courses, including Prep Writing, English Composition, American Literature, Linguistics, College Study Skills, and Leadership Development. For the past ten years, she has been very involved in the HCC Honors Institute, developing courses, teaching numerous classes, participating in conferences and extra-curricular activities, and traveling internationally with students. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Emory University, Professor Linsky received a NISOD Excellence Award from the University of Texas at Austin for her work in establishing the HCC Writing Center; she is also a certified Phi Theta Kappa Leadership Instructor.

Review

PART I: LEARNING GRAMMAR BASICS. 1. Getting Started. Parts of Speech. Nouns. Pronouns. Verbs. Adjectives. Adverbs. Prepositions. Conjunctions. Interjections. Parts of Sentences. Verbs. Subjects. 2. Sentence Patterns. Sentence Pattern 1: Subject/Verb. Diagramming Subject/Verb Sentence Patterns. Sentence Pattern 2: Subject/Verb/Direct Object. Diagramming Subject/Verb/Direct Object Sentence Patterns. Sentence Pattern 3: Subject/Verb/Indirect Object/Direct Object. Diagramming Subject/Verb/Indirect Object/Direct Object Sentence Patterns. Sentence Pattern 4: Subject/Verb/Direct Object/Object Complement. Diagramming Subject/Verb/Direct Object/Object Complement Sentence Patterns. Sentence Pattern 5: Subject/Linking Verb/Subject Complement. Diagramming Subject/Linking Verb/Subject Complement Sentence Patterns. 3. Adjectives and Adverbs. Adjectives. Articles. Possessives. Parts of Speech. Proper Adjectives. Demonstrative Adjectives. Indefinite Adjectives. Interrogative Adjectives. Relative Adjectives. Numerical Adjectives. Predicate Adjectives. Adding Adjectives to the Diagram. Adverbs. 4. Phrases. Prepositional Phrases. Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives and Adverbs. Adjective Phrases. Adverb Phrases. Adding Prepositional Phrases to the Diagram. Verb Phrases. Diagramming Verb Phrases. Appositive Phrases. 5. Verbals and Verbal Phrases. Participles. Gerunds. Infinitives. Infinitives as Nouns. Infinitives as Adjectives. Infinitives as Adverbs. 6. Word Order Variations. Questions. There is/are and There was/were. Commands and Requests. 7. Clauses. Independent Clauses. Dependent Clauses. Adverb Clauses. Adjective Clauses. Noun Clauses. 8. Types of Sentences. Classifying Sentences According to Structure. Simple Sentences. Compound Sentences. Compound Subjects and Verbs. Complex Sentences. Compound-Complex Sentences. Coordination and Subordination. PART II: PUTTING THE BASICS TO WORK. 9. Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences. 10. Commas. 11. Other Punctuation and Capitalization. 12. Pronoun Usage. 13. Agreement. 14. Modifier Usage. 15. Sentence Coherence: Logic, Parallelism, and Shifts. 16. Parts of Speech: Reference and Review. Selected Answers to Chapter Exercises. Index.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1133307361
• ISBN 13: 9781133307365
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 288