... perspective away from
grammar as a list of arbitrary problems, and towards grammar as a means of free expression.
We have tried to produce a grammar of real English the English that people speak ... usage.
Some great grammars of English for example Otto Jespersen's A Modern EnglishGrammar
support each statement with citations from published books, just as the major dictionaries of
English ... it.
This grammar is based on these important correspondences between structure and function,
which are set out in the Cobuild Grammar Chart on the following pages. The skeleton of
English grammar...
... 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 two or more sentences ... Sentences
As we learned in Part One (pages 105–107), two or more simple sentences can be
combined to form a compound sentence.
SIMPLE SENTENCE
: Dogs show affection for their owners.
SIMPLE SENTENCE
: ... object, car,
like a verb.)
PROBLEMS WITH SENTENCESTRUCTURE 161
150 COMMON USAGE ERRORS
Lesson
20
Problems with
Sentence
Structure
There are three basic kinds of sentences: simple, compound, and complex....
...
exactly alike.
15 Come on, children! time to get up! nearly breakfast time.
29
A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR
EXERCISES 1
CONTENTS
Articles
PEG chapter I
1 Articles: a/an
2 Articles: the
3 Articles: ... very severe drought.
it is/there is
PEG 67,116-17
Insert it is/there is in the spaces. In some sentences, contracted plural, negative and
interrogative forms, or the past or future tense are ... now.
19 I . . . a very interesting conversation with the milkman when my
neighbour interrupted me.
20 English people always . . . roast beef for lunch on Sundays?
21 It is difficult to learn a foreign...
... particular. (I'm thinking about nothing in particular.)
8.
A:
B: English grammar.
(I
dreamed about Englishgrammar last night.)
9.
A:
B: The map on the
wall.
(The teacher is pointing ...
read the newspaper every morning
5.
study grammar every evening
10.
pay all of my bills every month
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SIMPLE ...
EXPRESSING PAST TIME
201
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EXERCISE
52:
Add a capital letter and period to the complete sentences. Write
"Inc."...