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| To the Instructor | |
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| To the Student | |
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| Grammar | |
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| Teaching Grammar and Usage | |
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| Grammar | |
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| Some Suggestions about Teaching Grammar | |
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| Usage | |
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| Causes of Usage Errors | |
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| What Can We Do to Help Students Eliminate Usage Errors? | |
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| Teaching Grammar and Usage to Non-Native Speakers | |
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| Parts of Speech | |
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| Nouns | |
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| Identifying Common Nouns | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Determiners | |
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| Descriptive Adjectives | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Personal Pronouns | |
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| Reflexive Pronouns | |
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| Indefinite Pronouns | |
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| Demonstrative Pronouns | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Present Tense | |
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| Past Tense | |
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| Future Tense | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Adverbs that Modify Verbs | |
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| Adverbs that Modify Adjectives | |
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| Adverbs that Modify Other Adverbs | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Conjunctions | |
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| Review | |
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| Nouns | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Conjunctions | |
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| Basic Sentences and Their Diagrams | |
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| Defining Sentence | |
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| A Sentence Is a Group of Words Expressing a Complete Thought | |
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| A Sentence contains a Subject and a Predicate | |
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| Subject | |
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| Predicate | |
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| Verb Complements | |
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| Linking Verbs and Their Complements | |
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| Common Linking Verbs | |
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| All Linking Verbs Describe the Subject | |
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| Linking Verbs Have Distinctive Complements | |
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| Review of Linking Verbs and Their Complements | |
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| Action Verbs and Their Complements | |
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| Review of Action Verbs and Their Complements | |
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| Summary | |
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| Classifying Sentences by Purpose | |
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| Diagramming the Basic Sentence | |
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| Verb Forms, "Tense," and Helping Verbs | |
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| Verb Forms | |
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| Base Form | |
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| Present Tense | |
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| Past Tense | |
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| Infinitive | |
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| Present Participle | |
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| Past Participle | |
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| "Tense" | |
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| Present and Past Tense | |
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| Helping-Verb Constructions | |
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| Modals | |
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| Perfect | |
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| The Progressive | |
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| The Passive | |
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| Chaining Together Complex Verb Constructions | |
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| Combining Complex Verb Structures with the Passive | |
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| Review of Multiple Complex Verb Constructions | |
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| Phrases | |
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| Noun Phrases | |
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| Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Adjective Phrases | |
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| Adverb Phrases | |
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| Review of Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Diagramming Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Appositive Phrases | |
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| Diagramming Appositive Phrases | |
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| Verbal Phrases | |
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| Gerund Phrases | |
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| Participles and Participial Phrases | |
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| Infinitive Phrases | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Clauses | |
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| Independent Clauses | |
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| Dependent Clauses | |
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| Adjective (Relative) Clauses | |
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| Adverb Clauses | |
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| Noun Clauses | |
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| Sentences Classified According to Structure | |
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| Simple Sentences | |
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| Compound Sentences | |
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| Complex Sentences | |
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| Compound-Complex Sentences | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Adjective Clauses | |
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| Adverb Clauses | |
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| Noun Clauses | |
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| Sentences Classified According to Structure | |
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| Redefining Verb Complements | |
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| Examples of Main Verbs That Take Adverbs and Prepositions as Complements | |
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| Adverb | |
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| Adverbial of Place | |
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| Particular Prepositions | |
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| Survey of Verb Complements | |
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| Complements of Verbs with No More than a Single Complement | |
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| Verbs with More than One Complement | |
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| Complements of Phrasal Verbs | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Usage | |
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| Guide to Usage Topics | |
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| Index of Usage Topics | |
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| Usage Topics | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Articles (ESL) | |
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| Comma Splices | |
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| Commas and Appositives | |
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| Commas and Adjective Clauses | |
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| Commas and Coordinate Adjectives | |
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| Commas and Coordinating Conjunctions | |
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| Commas and Introductory Elements | |
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| Conjunctive Adverbs | |
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| Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Fragments | |
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| Fused Sentences | |
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| Participles Used as Adjectives (ESL) | |
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| Progressive Usage (ESL) | |
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| Pronoun Errors: I/me; we/us; he/him; she/her; they/them | |
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| Pronoun Errors: who and whom | |
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| Run-on Sentences (also Comma Splices and Fused Sentences) | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Glossary of Grammar Terms | |
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| Answers to Exercises | |
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| Index | |