grammar and usage simplified
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18/03/2013, 01:45
... onions, lettuce, and carrots on your
shopping list?
3. Paula, Emilio, or I will help with the
decorations.
4. Cycling and rollerblading are my favorite
sports.
5. Saturday and Sunday, fog and mist made
travel ... 3.
Make the following nouns singular.
Sample:
grandchildren
1. lamps
2. gentlemen
3. addresses
4. flowers
5. circuses
grandchild
feet
wishes
hands
NOUNS 29
We are building up our library at: ... v and add es:
leaf leaves
loaf loaves
half halves
self selves
shelf shelves
thief thieves
wolf wolves
But not in a name:
Mr. Wolf The Wolfs
Rule 4. For three nouns ending in fe—knife, life, and...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Adverbs
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... 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 did Gulliver ... go to Mexico City, the distant capital, to try to sell the
pearl. On a dark and windy night, with brave wife Juana and infant son
Coyotito, he sets out on the long, dangerous journey.
They have ... figures: a man on horseback and two trackers on
foot. Across the saddle, a long metal object gleams in the sun. It is a rifle.
For the full story of Kino, Juana, and Coyotito, read The Pearl,...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Basic Paragraph Composition
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... problem (S3)
her personality (S4 and S5)
the friends she has made and the help they are giving her (S6 and S7)
Note that S3 begins with the prepositional phrase At first, and S6 with the adverb
Already.
VARYING ... waste a good part of our lives standing in lines.
2
In the morning,
we stand in line to get a bus.
3
At noon, we stand in cafeteria lines.
4
In the
library, we stand in line to borrow or return ... or return a book.
5
At the supermarket,
we stand in checkout lines.
6
In the post office, we stand in line to mail a
package, and in the bank we stand in line to wait for the teller to help us.
7
Even...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Compound Verbs
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... was Ellen’s, and the handwriting was ______________, too.
EXERCISE 2.
Find the pronoun (
PRON
.) and its antecedent (
ANTECED
.), and write
them in the spaces at the right.
Samples:
Sandra said ... subject and a compound verb?
Answer:
Yes. Here is an example:
Cindy and Luke
compound subject compound verb
sang and danced.
runs but uses
read or watch
moaned, whistled, and howled
stumbled and ... audience.
S.
D.O.
2. Have some yogurt and fruit. V.
S.
D.O.
3. Are the snow and ice melting? V.
S.
D.O.
4. The World Wide Web and television V.
provide information and entertainment.
S.
D.O.
5. Jonathan...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Nouns
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23/10/2013, 13:20
... snow is 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 forms of a few more ... onions, lettuce, and carrots on your
shopping list?
3. Paula, Emilio, or I will help with the
decorations.
4. Cycling and rollerblading are my favorite
sports.
5. Saturday and Sunday, fog and mist made
travel ... 3.
Make the following nouns singular.
Sample:
grandchildren
1. lamps
2. gentlemen
3. addresses
4. flowers
5. circuses
grandchild
feet
wishes
hands
NOUNS 29
What Is a Common Noun?
A common noun...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Prepositions
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... 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 she.)
Alex and ... tired and in an angry mood.
Donna was tired and angry.
My neighbor and I are sports fans.
Correct
1. We were treated decently and with fairness.
2. The problem has been discussed frequently and ... are and, but, and or.
What Kinds of Work Do Conjunctions Do?
1. A conjunction connects nouns:
Milk and cheese are dairy products.
N. CONJ. N.
(The conjunction and connects the nouns milk and...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Capitalization
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23/10/2013, 13:20
... king
3. english and history 8. grandma and aunt louise
4. the planet saturn 9. in the southwest near phoenix
5. fourth of july holiday 10. fire island national seashore
218 COMMON USAGE ERRORS
... Homes and Gardens, “The Night the Ghost
Got In”
(Note: Articles—a, an, the—prepositions, and conjunctions are not capi-
talized unless they occur at the beginning or end of a title.)
Brand names
Campbell’s ... bear with me for once:
sit down and all shall happen as you wish.
you turn your face, but does it bring your heart?
—Robert Browning, “Andrea del Sarto”
220 COMMON USAGE ERRORS
2. “do you know,”...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Nouns
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23/10/2013, 13:20
... adjectives (Lessons 11 and 13) and adverbs
(Lessons 12 and 13)—how they function, how they differ, and how some adverbs are
formed from adjectives. In this lesson, we touch on a couple of usage concerns.
Adjectives ... the cafeteria and sat down next to Page.
176 COMMON USAGE ERRORS
8. Alex walked confidently to the front of the room and speaks to the class.
9. My sister handed the clarinet to me and then cringes ... thriller first.
Two: There aren’t hardly any sandwiches left.
One: There are hardly any sandwiches left.
One: There are almost no sandwiches left.
190 COMMON USAGE ERRORS
These are the past tense forms:
I...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Pronouns
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23/10/2013, 13:20
... pen pal in Bosnia wrote a long letter to Karin and (I, me).
19. We saw Marisol and (he, him) in the stands at the baseball game.
20. (Him and I, He and I) went on a rafting trip on the Nantahala ... 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 (not he). Maura and ... interrupting words and expressions; and use of
commas in letters, dates, and addresses.
Commas in a Series
Use a comma to separate items in a series.
Last summer we hiked, swam, golfed, and played softball.
My...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Sentence Structure
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... gems.
7. When a duck and her five ducklings waddled across the street.
8. Four runners standing in the starting line.
168 COMMON USAGE ERRORS
6. An electric guitar in one corner and an amplifier ... SUBJECT
: Cindy and Jeffrey smiled.
COMPOUND VERB
: Cindy smiled and laughed.
COMPOUND SUBJECT
AND VERB
: Cindy and Jeffrey smiled and laughed.
EXERCISE 1.
Each numbered line consists of two sentences. ... time. Miranda was late.
3. Tom plays professional football. His brother is more talented in baseball.
4. My brothers Sean and Ian are going skiing. The snow is deep enough.
154 COMMON USAGE ERRORS
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Review of Verbs, Nouns, and Pronouns
Ngày tải lên :
23/10/2013, 13:20
... ___________________.
L.V.
4. Ice becomes ___________________.
L.V.
5. Rembrandt and Picasso were ___________________.
L.V.
6. Iceland and Greenland are ___________________.
L.V.
In the exercise you have just ... husky, and
3. rough-coated modify the noun dogs;
4. the modifies the noun farmhouse;
5. a and
6. friendly modify the noun way;
7. watchful and
8. suspicious modify the pronoun they.
Note:
The, a, and ... to Mordor, and
he leaves secretly to 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...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Sentence Composition
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23/10/2013, 13:20
... thousand languages in North and South America alone.
b. Throughout the world, the number of languages is decreasing rapidly, and once
there were more than a thousand languages in North and South ... patience and dexterity, is a challenging sport.
8. Dogs are intelligent and attuned to humans, so they make good working companions.
9. Nursing is a good career choice and is suitable for both men and ... schedule for the time of departure from Orlando and when the
bus arrives at Tampa.
b. I checked the bus schedule for the time of departure from Orlando and time of
arrival at Tampa.
2. a. The path...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - The supbject
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23/10/2013, 13:20
... predicate is
Was Andy angry?
QUESTION
1: About whom is the sentence asking something?
ANSWER
: Andy.
The subject is Andy.
QUESTION
2: What is the sentence asking about Andy?
ANSWER
: Was Andy angry?
The ... left the road, and smashed into a telephone pole.
(Skidded, left, and smashed express physical action.)
2. Verbs that express mental action—action that takes place in the mind and
therefore cannot ... in the S.S. space, the predicate in the P.
space, and the verb in the V. space.
Samples:
The pond froze during the night. S.S.
P.
V.
Wash your hands. S.S.
P.
V.
Did you hear the wind? S.S.
P.
V.
1....
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13/05/2014, 22:42
... lettuce, and carrots on your
shopping list?
3. Paula, Emilio, or I will help with the
decorations.
4. Cycling and rollerblading are my favorite
sports.
5. Saturday and Sunday, fog and mist ... Edition
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Please ... left the road, and smashed into a telephone pole.
(Skidded, left, and smashed express physical action.)
2. Verbs that express mental action—action that takes place in the mind and
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