Schaum's Outline Of English Grammar

by Eugene Ehrlich, Laurie Rozakis

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071359856
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date:	04/20/2000
Series:	Schaum's Outline Series
Edition description:	Subsequent
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	0.35(w) x 11.00(h) x 8.25(d)

About the Author

Eugene Ehrlich, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Columbia University and has been a commentator for National Public Radio.

Table of Contents

	Glossary of Grammatical Terms	ix
Chapter 1	Principal Elements of the Sentence	1
	Verb	1
	Subject	1
	Direct Object	2
	Complement	2
	Indirect Object	7
	Modifiers	8
	Multiple-word Modifiers	9
	Clauses	16
	Phrases	17
Chapter 2	Nouns and Articles	19
	Nouns	19
	Noun Functions	21
	Types of Nouns	28
	Plural Forms of Nouns	31
	Possessive Forms of Nouns	32
	Collective Nouns	33
	Noun Clauses	35
	Articles	36
	Definite Article
	Omission of the Definite Article
	Indefinite Article
	Choosing Between a and an
Chapter 3	Verbs and Verbals	38
	Verbs	38
	Predicate	39
	Transitive and Intransitive Verbs	40
	Copulative (Linking) Verbs	41
	Auxiliary Verbs	42
	Shall and Will
	Should and Would
	Mood	44
	Uses of the Subjunctive Mood
	Voice	48
	Number	48
	Agreement of Subject and Verb
	Compound Subjects and Their Verbs
	Collective Nouns and Their Verbs
	Person	54
	Tense	54
	Principal Parts of the Verb
	Selection of Tense
	Agreement of Tenses
	Present Tense for Ideas True for All Time
	Consistency of Verbs	62
	Consistency of Voice
	Consistency of Person
	Consistency of Tense
	Consistency of Mood
	Verbals	64
	Infinitive	64
	Infinitive Phrases
	Tenses of the Infinitive
	Split Infinitives
	Participle	69
	Tenses of the Participle
	Gerund	71
	Verbals Used as Modifiers	73
	Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers	73
	Dangling Participles
	Misplaced Participles
	Dangling Infinitives
	Auxiliary Verbs and Infinitives in Compound Constructions	75
	Auxiliary Verbs
	Infinitives
	Parallel Structure and Verb Forms	77
Chapter 4	Pronouns	79
	Types of Pronouns	82
	Personal and Impersonal Pronouns
	Relative Pronouns
	Demonstrative Pronouns
	Interrogative Pronouns
	Reflexive Pronouns
	Intensive Pronouns
	Reciprocal Pronouns
	Indefinite Pronouns
	Pronoun Agreement	93
	Plural and Singular Antecedents
	Antecedents Joined by And, Or, or Nor
	Collective Nouns
	Singular Pronouns as Antecedents
	Pronouns in the Subjective Case	97
	Pronouns in the Objective Case	98
	Pronouns as Objects of Verbals
	Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions
	Pronouns in the Possessive Case	100
	Pronouns as Appositives	100
Chapter 5	Adjectives	102
	Types of Adjectives	102
	Limiting Adjectives
	Predicate Adjectives
	Position of Adjectives	105
	Comparison of Adjectives	106
	Adjective Phrases	107
	Adjective Clauses	107
	Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Adjective Clauses
	That and Which with Adjective Clauses
	Nouns Used as Adjectives	110
	Adjectives Used as Nouns
	Participles as Adjectives	111
	Dangling Participles
	Infinitives as Adjectives	113
Chapter 6	Adverbs	115
	Recognizing Adverbs	116
	Adverbs Ending in -ly
	Recognizing Adverbs by Their Functions
	Distinguishing Adverbs from Adjectives	119
	Comparison of Adverbs	120
	Nouns and Phrases Used as Adverbs	121
	Adverbial Clauses	122
	Conjunctive Adverbs	124
	Intensifiers	125
	Infinitives as Adverbs	126
Chapter 7	Prepositions and Conjunctions	128
	Prepositions	128
	Commonly Used Prepositions
	Object of Preposition
	Differentiating Prepositions from Other Parts of Speech
	Prepositional Phrases as Modifiers
	Conjunctions	135
	Answers	137
	Index	151