Grammar and usage for better writing_4 pptx
Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Adverbs
... 2.
Altogether there are twenty-nine adverbs in the above passage.
Adverbs 1–5 and the words they modify are shown as samples. List the remaining
twenty-four adverbs and the words they modify, including ... where are adverbs.
If our reporter had answered the above questions by using some adverbs for exam-
ple, if he or she had said,
“It snowed heavily yesterday upstate,”
we would...
Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Basic Paragraph Composition
... town.
256 BASIC PARAGRAPH COMPOSITION
Now write your two -paragraph composition.
234 BASIC PARAGRAPH COMPOSITION
A clincher sentence drives home the point that the
paragraph is making.
Not all paragraphs ... without my contact lenses.
a.
b.
254 BASIC PARAGRAPH COMPOSITION
231
Part
Four
Basic
Paragraph
Composition
Just as words form sentences, so sentences form p...
Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Compound Verbs
... Combinations
Pronouns and nouns may be combined to form compound subjects, compound indirect
objects, and compound direct objects.
Corey and I attended. (
COMPOUND SUBJECT
)
compound S.
Peter showed Corey and ... a
scholarship.
PRONOUNS AND ANTECEDENTS 57
Composition Hint
Make your writing more interesting and effective by removing unnecessary
words. Note how compound...
Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Nouns
... Interstate 99 and the roads feeding into it.
COMMON NOUNS
:
PROPER NOUNS
:
4. Considerable attention has been given by the press to the pollution of our lakes and
rivers.
COMMON NOUNS
:
PROPER NOUNS
:
5. ... predicted.
Did Terry and Mallika agree with you?
1. Vermont and New Hampshire are next to
each other.
Terry and Mallika
Rain or snow
Here are the singular and plural...
Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Prepositions
... connects the
and .
1. We were warm and comfortable.
The conjunction connects the
and .
2. The meal was delicious but cheap.
The conjunction connects the
and .
3. Jim called at noon and in the ... win and lose.)
4. A conjunction connects pronouns, or a noun and a pronoun:
You and she are always on time.
PRON. CONJ. PRON.
(The conjunction and connects the pronouns You and sh...
Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Capitalization
... oversees our national forests.
8. i saw venus and jupiter in the sky at twilight on labor day.
9. the first two books of the old testament are genesis and exodus.
PROBLEMS WITH CAPITALIZATION 219
... her.
214 COMMON USAGE ERRORS
Lesson
26
Problems with
Capitalization
15. I hope my cold dis_____p_____ears before the class
trip. ___________________
16. I’ve been stud_____ng...
Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Nouns
... problems with
nouns. The first is forming plurals. The second is forming possessives. When you have to
form plural possessives, you are faced with both problems. This lesson provides some ex-
tra ... practice for both.
Plurals of Nouns
Rules for forming plural nouns were given in Lessons 4 (pages 28–34) and 10 (page
63) in Part One. You may wish to review these before trying...
Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Pronouns
... market.
Say:
Go with Maura.
Go with him.
Go with Maura and him (not he). Maura and him form a compound
OBJECT of the preposition with.
Note the following correct form:
The apples were divided between Tom and ... is courteous to mention the other person first:
“Mollie and me,” NOT “me and Mollie.”)
PROBLEMS WITH PRONOUNS 193
Lesson
24
Problems with
Pronouns
6. (T...
Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Sentence Structure
... restaurant.
Run-on Sentences
Writing sentence fragments is a serious error. Writing run-on sentences is an equally
serious error.
Question:
What is a run-on sentence?
Answer:
A run-on sentence is ... compound sentence using or.
7. Write a simple sentence with a compound verb.
8. Write a complex sentence with two subordinate clauses.
9. Write a sentence with a subordina...
Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Review of Verbs, Nouns, and Pronouns
... continue it alone.
continued
REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 65
Lesson
10
Review of
Verbs, Nouns,
and Pronouns
REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 61
To learn what part of speech a word is, ask ... home?
3. My friends and I will help you.
4. You have no time to lose.
5. Terry will be there.
they’re
You’re
REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND P...
Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Sentence Composition
... House, President Andrew Johnson de-
pended on his daughter. She bought two Jersey cows to provide fresh milk and
butter for the White House table.
146 SENTENCE COMPOSITION
116 SENTENCE COMPOSITION
Lesson ... it into the right-field
stands.
CLEAR
: Andrew got up to bat and sent the ball into the right-
field stands.
3. Good sentences have unity. They stick to one general topic in...
Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - The supbject
... appear in other positions.
PREDICATE AFTER THE SUBJECT
:
The parking lot
S. P.
PREDICATE BEFORE THE SUBJECT
:
the parking lot.
P. S.
PREDICATE PARTLY BEFORE AND PARTLY AFTER THE SUBJECT
:
Is the parking ... the complete subject of the sentence.
Then, above the double line at the right, write the predicate.
Samples:
SUBJECT PREDICATE
The temperature dropped suddenly....
Grammar and Usage for Better Wirting_8 pptx
... pronouns are paired. Your choice in a sentence would be between I and
me, for example. I is the form used for the subject and me for the object.
I watched the Bears game Monday night.
(I is the ... Mollie and me (not I). Mollie and me form a
compound indirect OBJECT.
Go with Maura and him (not he) to the flea market.
Say:
Go with Maura.
Go with him.
Go with Maura and him (no...
Grammar and usage for better writing_4 pptx
... try again.
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PREPOSITIONS 99
Composition Hint
Sometimes we can express an idea through either an adverb or a prepositional
phrase.
Handle the glassware carefully.
ADV.
Handle the glassware ... gently
toward his chin. Curious, Gulliver bent his eyes downward and saw that it
was a six-inch human, armed with bow and arrow, and followed by about
forty similar creatures. So loud...