BETTER ENGLISH GRAMMAR
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BETTER ENGLISH GRAMMAR
Never has there been a greater need to make sure that you write and speak
‘good’ English. This is true of people in countries such as the UK where English
is the native language and of people in countries where English is a second or
foreign language. In countries where English is the language of business, a
marked emphasis is now being placed on the need for competent communicative
skills in the workplace. Although life in the modern world is generally less
formal than it was and people in personal, academic and business contexts write
considerably fewer letters than formerly, they are often still required to
demonstrate their powers of written communication in the classroom and the
workplace. For example, they might have to write a report for presentation to
their work colleagues.
When it comes to correspondence, emails may have taken over from formal
letters to a large extent but it reflects badly on a person if their emails are
sloppily written and full of errors. The computer spell checker can only help you
out to some extent. Many employers complain that a significant number of the
people whom they recruit for jobs are sadly lacking in these skills. This is true
even of young people who have just graduated from some of the top universities.
You might think that grammar and spelling are trivial matters, that they’re
just not that important in your line of work. You might think that as long as the
facts are correct, what does it matter if the grammar is bad? However, poor
grammar reflects badly on you—you might miss out on a job opportunity, you
might not be taken seriously when making a complaint, you could even put off a
potential Internet date—all because of terrible grammar and sloppy spelling.
Any public display of poor language skills can give a very bad impression of
even the most intelligent person.
At the same time, the importance of English as a world language continues to
grow. In fact, there are many versions of Standard English spoken around the
world: British, American, Canadian, Australian, Indian, South African, New
Zealand and more. All have rich variations in vocabulary, syntax, semantics and
grammar. More and more people in other countries are anxious to learn English
and there is an ever-increasing demand both for teachers of English as a second or foreign language and for effective teaching materials in these areas.
But what is ‘good’ English or even correct English? Don’t those of us who
learn it as a native tongue at our mother’s knee automatically speak and write it
correctly? Alas, the answer to that is no. Native speakers obviously have much
less of a struggle learning to speak good English than learners of English as a
foreign or second language do, but the process is not effort-free.
Good or correct English is often regarded as grammatical English. Grammar
has been variously described as the framework on which ideas are hung, and the
cement that binds words together. Basically, grammar refers to the rules that
govern the way a language works. Society cannot operate without rules and
neither can language.
The prospect of learning grammar is more likely to depress those whose
native tongue is English. Learners of English as a second or foreign language are
used to having to come to grips with the grammar of their own languages and
will not protest so much.
Often, the first time that people come into contact with written rules of
grammar is when they come to learn a foreign language. The language is broken
up into vocabulary, parts of speech, regular and irregular verbs, tenses,
agreements and structures, etc. The rules of this foreign language seem more
explicit, more ‘grammatical’ than that of our own, but, of course, our own
language has such rules, it’s just that we don’t notice them.
It might be surprising to hear that, if your first language is English, you do
already know some English grammar. You can speak the language, you
understand others, you can respond and make yourself understood. For example,
we automatically know the difference in structure between a question (Can I
have that?) and a command (Give me that!).
You started to learn English grammar as an infant without consciously
knowing you were doing so. You learned what were the correct structures and
combinations of words through hearing others speak and—once you learned how
to read—through the written word. Perhaps what you don’t know about are the
prescriptive rules that have been devised to describe English grammar. They
used to be taught by rote in schools but emphasis on this side of teaching English
has long since died out.
Spoken and written English are enormously different in structure and
formality. Spoken discourse is often disjointed, with sentence fragments used in
preference to complete sentences that would perhaps sound uncomfortably
formal, yet it is easily understood. Even the world’s most articulate and witty
people do not always speak using perfect, prescriptively ordered, ‘grammatically
correct’ English. Speech also employs stress, rhythm and intonation as an important part of conveying meaning.
However, our written words need structure and formality to convey meaning
as accurately and unambiguously as possible; and our spoken words can still
sound ‘wrong’ and give a bad impression if the formal rules are not followed.
Grammar has, over the years, got rather a bad press. At one point, in the UK,
it was set aside by the educational powers-that-be as being largely unnecessary.
Although it is now often seen as something valuable that should be brought back
into prominence, it is also often seen as something essentially difficult and
boring. This is not the case. It is logical and can be of great interest.
Furthermore, you really have to get to grips with it if you want to improve your
English.
In conclusion, in order to speak and write effectively and confidently in
English, you must know something about the structure of the language. This
book gives a clear explanation of the nuts and bolts of English grammar as well
as hints on how to create a better personal writing style incorporating ‘good’
English
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CONTENTS
GRAMMAR
THE SENTENCE AND THE PARAGRAPH
The sentence
Minor sentences
Major sentences
Subject and predicate
Subject
Predicate
Object
Direct object
Indirect object
Complement
Punctuation of sentences
Types of sentence
Statements
Negative sentences
Questions
Yes-no questions
Tag questions
Wh-questions
Alternative questions
Exclamatory questions
Rhetorical questions
Question by tone of voice
Directives
Exclamations
Kinds of sentence
Simple sentences
Multiple sentences
Compound sentences
Complex sentences
The paragraph
EXERCISES 1
ANSWERS 1
CLAUSES, PHRASES AND PHRASAL VERBS
Clauses
Main clause
Punctuation and main clauses
Subordinate clause
Adverbial clause
Types of adverbial clause
adverbial clause of time
adverbial clause of place
adverbial clause of purpose
adverbial clause of reason
adverbial clause of result
adverbial clause of condition
adverbial clause of manner
adverbial clause of concession
Comparative clause
Relative clause
Types of relative clause
Defining relative clause
Non-defining relative clause
Punctuation in relative clauses
Prepositions in relative clauses
Noun clause or nominal clause
Comment clause
Phrases
Noun phrase
Adjective phrase
Adverb phrase
Preposition phrase
Participial phrase
Phrasal verbs
Position of object in phrasal verbs
EXERCISES 2
ANSWERS 2
PARTS of Speech I
Main parts of speech
Nouns
Common and proper nouns
Concrete and abstract nouns
Countable and uncountable nouns
Verbal noun
Collective nouns
Singular and plural forms of nouns
Regular singular forms of nouns
Regular plural forms of nouns
Irregular plural forms of nouns
Foreign plural forms of nouns
Unchanging plural form
Nouns used only in the plural form
Gender of nouns
Dual gender
Feminine forms
Person in compound nouns
Compound nouns
Plural forms of compound nouns
Nouns and noun phrases in apposition
Pronouns
Personal pronouns
I and we: the first person personal pronoun
You: the second person personal pronoun
He, she, it and they: the third person personal pronoun
Possessive pronouns
Reflexive pronouns
Reciprocal pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns
Indefinite pronouns
Distributive pronouns
Interrogative pronouns
Relative pronouns
EXERCISES 3
ANSWERS 3
PARTS OF SPEECH II
Adjectives
Gradable and non-gradable adjectives
Position of adjectives
Attributive adjectives
Predicative adjectives
Post-modifiers
Qualitative adjectives
Classifying adjectives
Colour adjectives
Number adjectives
Emphatic adjectives
Interrogative adjectives
Demonstrative adjectives
Possessive adjectives
Compound adjectives
Order of adjectives
Adjectives used as nouns
Adjective or adverb?
Comparative forms of adjectives
Comparative and number of syllables
Irregular comparatives
No comparative form
Superlative forms
Irregular superlatives
No superlative form
Determiners
Types of determiner
Definite and indefinite articles
Definite article
Indefinite article
Demonstrative determiners
Possessive determiners
Indefinite determiners
Number determiners
EXERCISES 4
ANSWERS 4
PARTS OF SPEECH III
Verbs
Regular verbs
Irregular verbs
Categories of irregular verbs
Tense
Present tense
Simple present tense
Continuous present tense
Past tense
Simple past tense
Continuous past tense
Perfect tense
Continuous present perfect tense
Past perfect tense
Future tense
Traditional grammar
Modern usage
Other ways of referring to the future
Mood
Indicative mood
Imperative mood
Subjunctive mood
Voice
Active voice
Passive voice
Transitive verb and intransitive verb
Linking verb
Auxiliary verb
Modal auxiliary verb
Concord
Parts of a verb
Infinitive
Participles
Present participle
Past participle
EXERCISES 5
ANSWERS 5
PARTS OF SPEECH IV
Adverbs
Types of adverb
Adverbs of time
Adverbs of frequency
Adverbs of duration
Adverbs of place
Adverbs of manner
Adverbs of degree
Adverbs of emphasis
Interrogative adverbs
Prepositions
Simple prepositions
Complex prepositions
Conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions introducing adverbial clauses
EXERCISES 6
ANSWERS 6
PUNCTUATION
THE IMPORTANCE OF PUNCTUATION
Full stop
The full stop and abbreviations
The full stop in email and website addresses
Question mark
Exclamation mark
Capital letter
EXERCISES 7
ANSWERS 7
Comma
The comma as separating device in lists
The comma as a separating device in a list of adjectives
Commas and relative clauses
Commas and subordinate clauses
The comma as a separating device in clauses joined by coordinating
conjunctions
The comma as separating device with initial phrases
The comma with terms of address
The comma with question tags
The comma with interjections
The comma used in pairs as a means of separation or parenthesis
The comma with nouns or phrases in apposition
The comma and numbers
EXERCISES 8
ANSWERS 8
Brackets
Dash
Semicolon
The semicolon as a link
The semicolon as a separation device in lists
The semicolon as separation device in lists of word groups already
containing commas
The semicolon as a separation device before certain adverbs
Colon
The colon as a separating device in a two-part sentence
The colon as a linking device or introduction
EXERCISES 9
ANSWERS 9
Hyphen
The hyphen in word-breaks
EXERCISES 10
ANSWERS 10
Quotation marks
Quotation marks and direct speech
Quotation marks and paragraphs
Quotation marks and dialogue
Other uses of quotation marks
Quotation marks and titles
Quotation marks and a direct quotation
EXERCISES 11
ANSWERS 11
Other punctuation marks
Apostrophe
Asterisk
Three-dot ellipsis
Oblique
containing commas
The semicolon as a separation device before certain adverbs
Colon
The colon as a separating device in a two-part sentence
The colon as a linking device or introduction
EXERCISES 9
ANSWERS 9
Hyphen
The hyphen in word-breaks
EXERCISES 10
ANSWERS 10
Quotation marks
Quotation marks and direct speech
Quotation marks and paragraphs
Quotation marks and dialogue
Other uses of quotation marks
Quotation marks and titles
Quotation marks and a direct quotation
EXERCISES 11
ANSWERS 11
Other punctuation marks
Apostrophe
Asterisk
Three-dot ellipsis
Oblique
EXERCISES 12
ANSWERS 12
DEVELOPING YOUR OWN STYLE
STYLE
Sentence style
Sentence length
The middle way
Sentence structure
Compound sentences
Complex sentences
Vocabulary
Active and passive vocabulary
Increasing your word power
Dictionaries and thesauruses
Register
Keep it simple
Adding variety
EXERCISES 13
ANSWERS 13
EXERCISES 14
ANSWERS 14
WORDS THAT MAY CONFUSE
IDIOMS, CLICHÉS AND EVERYDAY PHRASES
Common idioms
Clichés
Everyday phrases
Homophones
Homonyms
Homographs and heteronyms
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