Full Description
Grammar and Usage in the Classroom addresses prospective English teachers who need both to learn basic grammar themselves and to prepare themselves to successfully teach grammar. Based on the author's extensive work with school districts, in-service teachers, and hundreds of his own students, the second edition has been thoroughly revised and reorganized into three parts: Grammar; Usage; and A Glossary of Grammatical Terms.The grammar opens with a chapter on the current state of teaching grammar and usage; presents traditional school grammar; and, in the last grammar chapter, introduces a modern descriptive grammar to analyze verb complements.
Contents
To the Instructor. To the Student. I.GRAMMAR. 1.Teaching Grammar and Usage. 2.Parts of Speech. 3.Basic Sentences and Their Diagrams. 4.Verbs Forms, "Tense," and Helping Verbs. 5.Phrases. 6.Clauses. 7.Redefining Verb Complements. II.USAGE. Guide to Usage Topics. Index of Usage Topics. Usage Topics. Apostrophes. Articles (ESL). Commas and Appositives. Commas and Coordinate Adjectives. Commas and Coordinating Conjunctions. Commas and Introductory Elements. Dangling Modifiers. Fragments. Participles Used as Adjectives (ESL). Progressive Usage (ESL). Pronoun Error: I/Me; We/Us; He/Him; She/Her; They/Them. Pronoun Error: Who and Whom. Run-on Sentences. Subject-Verb Agreement.Answers to Exercises.
