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English Grammar Workbook For Dummies with Online Practice

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

ISBN

978-1-119-45539-4

Auflage

3rd Edition

Erscheinungsdatum

29.05.2018

Einband

Taschenbuch

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

336

Maße (L/B/H)

25,1/19,9/1,9 cm

Gewicht

466 g

Sprache

Englisch

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

ISBN

978-1-119-45539-4

Auflage

3rd Edition

Erscheinungsdatum

29.05.2018

Einband

Taschenbuch

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

336

Maße (L/B/H)

25,1/19,9/1,9 cm

Gewicht

466 g

Sprache

Englisch

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: English Grammar Workbook For Dummies with Online Practice

  • Introduction 1

    Foolish Assumptions 2

    Icons Used in This Book 2

    Beyond the Book 3

    Where to Go from Here 3

    Part 1: Building a Firm Foundation: Grammar Basics 5

    Chapter 1: Tailoring Language to Suit Your Audience and Purpose 7

    Climbing the Ladder of Language Formality 8

    Matching Message to Situation 10

    Answers to "Tailoring Language to Suit Your Audience and Purpose" 13

    Chapter 2: Identifying the Major Elements of a Sentence 15

    Going to the Heart of the Matter: The Verb 15

    Treasure hunt: Finding the verb 16

    Choosing the correct verb for negative expressions 17

    Questioning with verbs 18

    Aiding and abetting: Helping verbs 19

    Zeroing in on the Subject 20

    When one isn't enough: Forming noun plurals 21

    Adding Meaning: Objects and Complements 23

    Answers to Questions about Major Elements of a Sentence 25

    Chapter 3: Having It All: Writing Complete Sentences 29

    Finding Subjects and Verbs that Match 30

    Checking for Complete Thoughts 31

    Improving Flow with Properly Joined Sentences 33

    Setting the Tone with Endmarks 36

    Proper Sentence or Not? That Is the Question 37

    Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Complete Sentences 39

    Answers to Complete Sentence Problems 40

    Part 2: Clearing Up Confusing Grammar Points 45

    Chapter 4: Finding the Right Verb at the Right Time 47

    Using Past, Present, and Future Tense at the Right Times 47

    Putting Perfect Tenses in the Spotlight 49

    Speaking of the Past and Things That Never Change 51

    Romeo Lives! Writing about Literature and Art in Present Tense 53

    Hitting Curveballs: Irregular Forms 54

    Getting a Handle on Common Irregulars: Be and Have 56

    Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Verbs 58

    Answers to Problems on Verbs and Verb Tenses 59

    Chapter 5: Agreement: Choosing Singular or Plural Verbs and Pronouns 67

    Meeting Their Match: Pairing Subjects and Verbs 67

    Boning up on the basics 68

    Taming the tough guys: Difficult subjects 70

    Dealing with tricksters 72

    Matching Pronouns and Antecedents 73

    Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Hitching Subjects and Verbs 77

    Answers to Subject, Verb, and Pronoun Pairing Problems 78

    Chapter 6: Solving Pronoun Case 85

    Meeting the Subject at Hand and the Object of My Affection 85

    To "Who" or To "Whom"? That Is the Question 87

    You Talkin' to Me, or I? Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions 89

    Matching Possessive Pronouns to "-ing" Nouns 90

    Missing in Action: Choosing Pronouns for Implied Comparisons 91

    Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Pronoun Case 92

    Answers to Advanced Pronoun Problems 93

    Chapter 7: Little Words Packing a Lot of Power: Prepositions and Interjections 99

    Pinning Down Prepositions 100

    Interjections Are Simple! 102

    Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Prepositions and Interjections 103

    Answers to Questions About Prepositions and Interjections 104

    Chapter 8: Writing Good or Well: Adjectives and Adverbs 107

    Identifying Adjectives and Adverbs 107

    The Right Place at the Right Time: Placing Adjectives and Adverbs 109

    How's It Going? Choosing Between Good/Well and Bad/Badly 111

    Mastering the Art of Articles 112

    For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons 113

    Visiting the -ER (and the -EST): One- or two-word comparisons 113

    Going from bad to worse (and good to better): Irregular comparisons 116

    Calling All Overachievers: Extra Practice with Descriptors 117

    Answers to Adjective and Adverb Problems 118

    Part 3: Mastering Mechanics 125

    Chapter 9: A Hook That Can C