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Nitty Gritty Grammar, Second Edition, focuses on essential areas of English grammar that cause difficulty for developing writers. Nitty Gritty Grammar, Second Edition focuses on essential areas of English grammar that cause difficulty for developing writers. It guides students through the learning process by exploring grammar in context, providing controlled practice, and giving students thought-provoking writing assignments in which they can practice grammar in a more open-ended format. The grammar points are illustrated in reading passages from a variety of genres, from comic strips to the 9/11 Commission Report. Nitty Gritty Grammar boxes summarize key grammar points and serve as easy reference. Five review sections are included for review and consolidation.
Synopsis
Nitty Gritty Grammar, Second Edition, focuses on essential areas of English grammar that cause difficulty for developing writers.
Synopsis
Nitty Gritty Grammar focuses specifically on crucial grammar issues such as sentence fragments, verb tenses and correct use of articles. It encourages students to observe grammar structures used in sample texts before they are presented with the formal rules. This edition offers more practice exercises, thematically-based chapters and updated readings.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Sentence Essentials; Chapter 2: Clauses and Sentence Types; Chapter 3: Run-on Sentences and Sentence Fragments; Chapter 4: The Present Tense and the Present Progressive Tense; Chapter 5: The Past Tense and the Past Progressive Tense; Chapter 6: The Present Perfect Tense and the Present Perfect Progressive Tense; Chapter 7: Nouns and Determiners (Articles); Chapter 8: Modals and Phrasal Modals; Chapter 9: Conditional Sentences and Hope versus Wish; Chapter 10: Prepositions--In, On, and At; Chapter 11: Word Formation; Chapter 12: Final Do's and Don'ts; Appendix: Commonly Confused Words