Mastering English Grammar by S. H. Burton
Contents of Mastering English Grammar
- What is grammar? Language and communication
- Making sense
- Grammar and sense
- Phrases and sentences Word groups
- Phrases
- Sentences
- Four kinds of sentences
- The punctuation of written
- sentences
- Subject and predicate The two parts of the sentence
- The functions of the two parts
- Subject and predicate
- Words in sentences Words at work
- Different work for the same word
- An introduction to the The eight parts of speech
- parts of speech Nouns
- Verbs
- Pronouns
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Interjections
- Family groups and word
- behaviour
- The parts of the simple Definition of the simple
- sentence sentence
- Subject and predicate
- The subject and the subject-word
- Subject-word and words qualifying subject-word
- Predicate: the verb and words modifying the verb
- Predicate: the direct object
- Predicate: the indirect object so
- Predicate: predicative words (or complement)
- A tabular list of all the parts of the simple sentence
- Finite verbs and non-fmite Finite verbs verbs Non-fmite verbs
- Participial phrases
- Gerundive phrases
- Infinitive phrases
- Simple sentence analysis Tabular analysis
- Descriptive analysis
- Graphic analysis
- Analysing phrases
- Clauses and sentences What is a clause?
- Main clauses
- Co-ordinating conjunctions
- Double sentences
- Multiple sentences
- Complex sentences
- Kinds of sentences: a check-list
- Summing up
- Subordinate clauses and Introduction the work they do Adjective-clauses
- Adverb-clauses
- Noun-clauses
- The analysis of complex Method
- double and multiple Procedure
- sentences Notes on procedure
- Worked examples: complex
- sentences
- Double and multiple sentence analysis
- Tests in analysis
- The parts of speech: a Introduction
- chapter for reference Nouns
- Pronouns
- Adjectives
- Verbs
- Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Interjections
- ‘It’ as a provisional subject
- ‘There’ as an introductory adverb
- Common errors and Introduction
- debatable points Agreement
- Case
- Verb-forms
- The rule of proximity
- Woolly use of pronouns
- Defming and non-defming
- phrases and clauses
- Chopping and changing
- Tests
