Collins Good Grammar
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Graham King. Collins Good Grammar
Contents
The Thirteen Gremlims of Grammar
Introduction: How to wrestle with grammar – and win!
What is Grammar? Why use it?
You know more about grammar than you think
Answers to the Grammar Test
Let’s Look at Sentences
The long-winded sentence
When a sentence isn’t a sentence
The inner workings of the classic sentence
Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
Types of Regular Sentences
The ‘Voice’ of a Sentence
The Mood of a Sentence
Ellipsis: Trimming away ‘Sentence Fat’
Harmony in the Sentence
Starting a Sentence with ‘And’ and ‘But’
The Building Blocks of Sentences: Parts of Speech
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Pronouns
Determiners
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Interjections
Phrases and Clauses
Misplaced Clauses
Naming Things: Nouns
Common and Proper Nouns
Countable and Uncountable Nouns
Singular and Plural Nouns
Collective Nouns
How Nouns Become Possessive
You, Me and other Pronouns
PERSONAL PRONOUNS
Problems with Personal Pronouns
The Generic Personal Pronoun ‘One’
The Versatile Personal Pronoun ‘It’
POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS
DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS
INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS
Who or Whom: That is the Question!
RELATIVE PRONOUNS
INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
RECIPROCAL PRONOUNS
NUMBER PRONOUNS
Avoid Perplexing Pronouns
That and Which
That and Who
Drop ‘that’ With Care
The Search for the Uni-gender Third Person Pronoun
It’s a plane! It’s a bird! No! It’s SUPERVERB!
Regular and Irregular Verbs
Some Disorderly, Disobedient, Deviating Irregular Verbs
Auxiliary Verbs
The Twelve Tenses:
A Verbal Warning!
The Expressive Power of Auxiliary Verbs
Will and Shall
May and Might
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Phrasal Verbs
Verbals and Verb Phrases
Participles
The Dangling, or Misplaced Participle
Infinitives
To boldly go . . . The Split Infinitive
Gerunds
A Two Minute Verbal Workout
ANSWERS
Describing Things: Adjectives and Adverbs
Adjectives
Recognising Adjectives
Kinds of Adjective
The E-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g Adjective
Tips on Using Adjectives
Add To Your Adjectives: 2 Minute Test
Adverbs
How Adverbs Work
Positioning Your Adverbs
Tips on Using Adverbs
Grammatical Glue: Determiners, Conjunctions and Prepositions
Determiners
Definite Determiners
Indefinite Determiners
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Sir Ernest’s Verbose Prepositions
Interjections!
Grammatical Gluemanship: a Two Minute Test
Answers
Punctuation: What’s the Point?
Punctuation: Devices for Separating and Joining
The Full Stop
The Comma
Functions of the Comma
The ‘comma splice’
Using Commas with Adjectives
The Oxford, or Final Comma
Other Problem Comma Placements
Using Commas to Parenthesise
The Semicolon
The Colon
Brackets and Parentheses
The Square Bracket
The Dash
The Hyphen
Wordbreaks and Linebreaks
Hassle-free Hyphenating
Punctuation: Symbols of Meaning
The Question Mark
The ‘Semi’-question
The Exclamation Mark
The Apostrophe
Possessive Apostrophes
Contraction Apostrophes
Quotation Marks
Quoting Direct Speech
How to Close Quotations
British and American Punctuation
The Three-dot Ellipsis
The Asterisk
Bullets
The Stroke
Italics, Bold and Underlining
Capitalisation
Writing Good English: The Elements of Style
Remember the Basics
Build on Brevity
The Quality of Life
Add Colour to your Word Palette
The Writer’s Seven Deadly Sins
Elegant Variation
Plagiarism
To sum up . .
Index
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About the Author
Writing Guides by Graham King
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Cover
Title Page
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