Grammar By Diagram: Understanding English Grammar Through Traditional Sentence Diagraming (2nd Edition) - Softcover

Cindy L. Vitto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551117789 ISBN 13: 9781551117782

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2006

Synopsis

Grammar by Diagram, second edition is a book designed for anyone who wishes to improve grammatical understanding and skill. Using traditional sentence diagraming as a visual tool, the book explains how to expand simple sentences into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, and how to employ verbals (infinitives, gerunds, and participles) and other structures for additional variety.

The text addresses the most frequent usage errors by explaining how to distinguish between adjectives and adverbs; how to avoid problems of pronoun case, agreement, and consistency; how to ensure that verbs will agree with their subjects and will be appropriate in terms of tense, aspect, voice, and mood; and how to phrase sentences to avoid errors in parallelism or placement of modifiers. Six appendices incorporate further exercises, a summary of key basics from the text, and supplemental material not included in the body of the text but useful for quick reference. This new edition includes additional exercises and has been revised and updated throughout.

About this title

About the Author

Cindy L. Vitto is Professor of English at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey.

Review

“Rejoice! After years of neglect, sentence diagraming can unapologetically return to college courses. Cindy Vitto’s Grammar by Diagram makes this a fruitful return by using diagraming first to lay bare the structural bones of English and then to demonstrate ways in which writers use these components to create effective sentences. Through diagraming, students see that a strong sentence is a purposefully structured unit and not a set of words aimlessly strung together. Thus Grammar by Diagram not only gives students skills for crafting better sentences but also tools for examining language with greater care.” ― Candace Barrington, Central Connecticut State University, on Grammar by Diagram, second edition

“Grammar by Diagram is a dream come true for me. I grew up academically on diagraming, and I have always thought it was one of the best ways for students to visualize the structure of the language.” ― George Edward Stanley, Cameron University

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1551117789
• ISBN 13: 9781551117782
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 453