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1 online resource (120 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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Study smart series
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Study smart series.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
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Originally published: Chicago : Contemporary Books, ©1982. |
| Summary |
Explains some of the more troublesome and confusing aspects of English grammar under the topics of nouns, pronouns, verbs, modifiers, sentences, conjunctions and prepositions, and punctuation. Includes practice quizzes. |
| Contents |
How to Use This Book -- Clue 1: Why We Have Trouble with Grammar -- Clue 2: Why Grammar Is So Confusing -- 1: Nouns -- Clue 1: Most Nouns Can Follow the -- Catch 1:, Some Nouns Are Also Verbs -- Catch 2: Some Nouns Are Groups of Words -- Clue 2: Most Nouns Add s to Show Plural -- Catch 3: Some Nouns Form Irregular Plurals -- Catch 4: Some Singular Nouns Have Plural Meanings -- Clue 3: Possessives Can Show More Than Possession -- Catch 5: Apostrophes Are Tricky -- Catch 6: Compound Nouns Often Replace Possessives -- Checkup Quiz -- 2: Pronouns. |
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Clue 1 : Pronouns Come in Small Groups -- Catch 1: Is It I or me? -- Catch 2: Whom Isn't Dead Yet -- Clue 2: How to Tell a Possessive from a Contraction -- Clue 3: Some Pronouns Defy Logic -- Catch 3: The which/that Dilemma -- Catch 4: The whose Confusion -- Clue 4: How to Use the Pronoun one -- Clue 5: The Verbs That Follow Indefinite Pronouns -- Checkup Quiz -- 3: Verbs -- Clue 1: Memorize Tricky Irregular Verbs -- Catch 1: Look-Alike Verbs Trip Us Up -- Clue 2: Some Plural Subjects Take Singular Verbs -- Clue 3: Know How to Deal with Fancy Tenses -- Catch 2: Shall Isn't Dead Yet. |
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Clue 4: Translate Speech Properly to Paper -- Clue 5: Passive Has Its Place -- Catch 3: The Prejudice Against get -- Clue 6: A Verb Is Sometimes a Two-Word Unit -- Clue 7: Some Verbs Take Special Prepositions -- Catch 4: The Split Infinitive Has Not Yet Won Its Battle -- Clue 8: Mood Is a Sometime Thing -- Checkup Quiz -- 4: Modifiers -- 4: Modifiers Clue 1: -Iy Words Are Not Always Adverbs, and Adverbs Are Not Always -1y Words -- Catch 1: good and well, bad and badly -- Clue 2: Which Comparisons use -er, -est -- and Which Use more and most -- Catch 2: Some Words Can't Be Compared. |
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Catch 3: Watch the Pronouns That Follow Comparisons -- Clue 3: Don't Use Shorthand in Comparing -- Clue 4: Clear Up the than/then Confusion -- Clue 5: Other Modifiers That Trip the Unwary -- Checkup Quiz -- 5: Sentences -- Clue 1: Compound Sentences Show Related and Equally Important Thoughts -- Clue 2: Make Sure Your Compound Sentences Do the Right Job -- Clue 3: Complex Sentences Show Complicated Relationships Between Ideas -- Clue 4: Sentence Fragments Don't Fully Answer Questions -- Clue 5: Keep Verb Tenses Straight in Complex Sentences. |
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Clue 6: Keep the Subject from Shifting Within Its Sentence -- Clue 7: Complex Sentences Have a General Phrase Order -- Clue 8: Keep Adverbs and Adjectives in the Right Clause -- Checkup Quiz -- 6: Conjunctions and Prepositions -- Clue 1: When to Use that -- Catch 1: Don't Confuse that with who -- Catch 2: Don't Confuse that with which -- Clue 2: Some Verbs Take a Subjunctive that Clause -- Clue 3: Four Tricky Conjunction Pairs -- Clue 4: When to End a Sentence with a Preposition -- Checkup Quiz -- 7: Punctuation -- Clue 1: Punctuating by Ear -- Clue 2: Other Punctuation Marks -- Checkup Quiz. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
English language -- Grammar.
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English language -- Grammar. |
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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English language -- Rhetoric. |
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English language -- Grammar. |
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English language -- Composition and exercises. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Peterson, Franklynn.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kesselman-Turkel, Judi. Grammar crammer. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2003], ©1982 9780299191344 (DLC) 2003045824 (OCoLC)52039326 |
| ISBN |
9780299191337 (electronic book) |
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0299191338 (electronic book) |
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0299191346 (alkaline paper) |
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9780299191344 |
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