The Grammar Guide: Developing Language Skills for Academic Success / Edition 1

by Nancy M. Ackles

Overview

The Grammar Guide was written for bilingual and second language English students (including Generation 1.5) who already know a lot of English but who may not have studied a lot of grammar and haven't felt confident in a grammar class. This is an advanced textbook of grammar that explains some of the more difficult but important aspects of grammar that will help students in colleges and universities succeed in their academic work.
Among the grammar points taught are modals, tenses, passive voice, articles, subject-verb agreement, modifiers and comparisons, gerunds and infinitives, adverb clauses, adjective clauses, the subjunctive, conditionals, and participial phrases.
The Grammar Guide also:
develops writing skills, through a focus on grammar and vocabulary increases academic vocabulary using the 800+ words that most frequently appear in academic writing, the Academic Word List stresses collocations, word parts and forms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780472088829
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	02/26/2003
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	9.92(w) x 10.88(h) x 0.64(d)

Table of Contents

	List of Reference Charts	xv
Chapter 1.	Tools for Language Learning	1
	Parts of Speech	1
	Sentences	6
	Dictionaries	14
Chapter 2.	Verb Tenses	19
	Present Tenses	21
	Past Tenses	26
Chapter 3.	Modals	36
	Time	38
	Ability	38
	Necessity	40
	Advisability and Hindsight	41
	Expectation	42
	Options	43
	Certainty and Lack of Certainty	44
	Polite Forms	49
Chapter 4.	Passive Voice	52
	Forming Passive Voice Verb Phrases	52
	Reasons to Use Passive Voice	55
Chapter 5.	A/an and the	60
	Count Nouns and Noncount Nouns	61
	Article Use: Singular Count Nouns	65
	Article Use: Plurals and Noncount Nouns	67
	Generic Use of Nouns	71
	Helpful Guidelines	72
Chapter 6.	Subject-Verb Agreement	78
	Agreement	78
	Troublesome Subjects	79
Chapter 7.	Modifiers and Comparisons	86
	Modifiers of Nouns	87
	Adverbs	92
	Comparisons	95
Chapter 8.	Gerunds and Infinitives	100
	Gerunds	100
	Infinitives	104
	Make, Let, and Have	114
Chapter 9.	Parallel Structure	116
	Using Parallel Structure	116
Chapter 10.	Subordination and Transition: Adverb Clauses	119
	Ways to Connect Ideas	121
	Troublesome Subordinating Conjunctions	124
	Troublesome Transitional Expressions	128
	A Few More Troublesome Expressions	131
	Using Transitional Expressions to Organize an Essay	132
Chapter 11.	Adjective Clauses	136
	Subject Adjective Clauses	137
	Object Adjective Clauses	139
	Preposition Adjective Clauses	143
	Restrictive versus Nonrestrictive Adjective Clauses	147
	Adjective Clauses with Whose	148
	Other Uses of Which Clauses	150
	Adjective Clauses with of Which or of Whom	150
Chapter 12.	Noun Clauses	153
	Noun Clauses with Question Words	153
	If Noun Clauses	155
	That Noun Clauses	156
	That Noun Clauses versus Noun Clauses with Question Words	157
	It Sentences with Noun Clauses	159
	Noun Clauses as Complements	160
	The Formal Sequence of Tenses for Reported Speech	163
Chapter 13.	Subjunctive Verb Forms	166
	Ordinary Conditionals ("Real" Conditionals)	166
	Hypothetical Conditionals ("Unreal" Conditionals): Present/Future Time	169
	Hypothetical Conditionals ("Unreal" Conditionals): Past Time	172
	Hypothetical Conditionals ("Unreal" Conditionals): Mixed Time	174
	Hidden and Implied Conditionals	175
	Rare Forms	178
	Subjunctive Complements	179
	Wish	182
Chapter 14.	Participial Phrases	186
	Adjectival Participial Phrases	187
	Time Relationships in Participial Phrases	191
	Adverbial Participial Phrases	194
	Other Participial Phrase Forms	196
Chapter 15.	Readings	198
	Reading Poetry	198
	Reading Prose	201
Appendix	Words from the Academic and University Word Lists	211
	Answer Key	223