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A Handbook of Practical Grammar for Public Communications, Preliminary Edition

A Handbook of Practical Grammar for Public Communications, Preliminary Edition

Author(s): Roy Terry

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Copyright: 2018

Pages: 186

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A Handbook of Practical Grammar for Public Communications emphasizes both the forms and functions of grammatical elements. The ability to analyze one’s own writing depends, in large measure, upon the ability to identify how a word or word group is functioning. Two similar forms may not be functioning similarly, and the clash of their functions can result in a kind of dissonance; or a word that appears to be one part of speech may just as easily be another, and the author’s ambiguity can leave readers scratching their heads.

A Handbook of Practical Grammar for Public Communications

  • begins with a close look at parts of speech and moves from there to an extensive discussion of verbs and verbals.
  • discusses word groups and their functions, includes a summary of punctuation rules, and concludes by addressing common problems.
  • features a set of appendices with useful information, a collection of published articles, excerpts, and stories for analysis, and a Glossary of Grammatical Terms.
  • is student friendly! Throughout the text, as important terms are used for the first time within each section, they are indicated in green, indicating that they are defined in the Glossary.

CHAPTER ONE Introduction
1.1 WHY STUDY GRAMMAR?
1.2 THIS HANDBOOK AND HOW TO USE IT
1.3 A WORD ABOUT SOURCES AND RESOURCES
1.4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART 1—PARTS OF SPEECH
CHAPTER TWO Open-Class Words
2.1 NOUNS
2.1.1 What They Are and What They Do
2.1.2 Classifying Nouns
2.1.2.1 Common and Proper Nouns
2.1.2.2 Abstract and Concrete Nouns
2.1.2.3 Count(able) and Noncount(able) Nouns
2.1.2.4 Collective Nouns
2.1.2.5 Compound Nouns
 • Review & Practice: Classifying Nouns
2.1.3 Plural Forms of Nouns
2.1.4 Creating New Nouns
2.2 LEXICAL VERBS
2.2.1 What They Are and What They Do
2.2.2 Classifying Lexical Verbs
2.2.3 Phrasal Verbs
2.2.4 Creating New Lexical Verbs
2.3 MODIFIERS: DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
2.3.1 What They Are and What They Do
2.3.2 Classifying Descriptive Adjectives
2.3.2.1 Common and Proper Adjectives
2.3.2.2 Simple and Compound Adjectives
2.3.2.3 Evaluative and Factual Adjectives
2.3.3 Adjectives in Series
2.3.3.1 Coordinate and Noncoordinate Adjectives
2.3.3.2 When Coordinate and Noncoordinate Adjectives Appear Together
2.3.4 Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Adjectives
2.3.4.1 Absolute Adjectives
2.3.4.2 Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives
2.3.5 Creating New Descriptive Adjectives
2.4 MODIFIERS: ADVERBS
2.4.1 What They Are and What They Do
2.4.2 Classifying Adverbs
• Review & Practice: Using the Appropriate Adverb
2.4.2.1 Absolute Phrases as Adverbs
2.4.2.2 Conjunctive Adverbs
2.4.3 Adverb Placement
• Review & Practice: Adverb Placement
2.4.4 Adverbs and Comparison
2.4.4.1 Absolute Adverbs
2.4.4.2 Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adverbs
2.4.5 Relative Adverbs
2.4.6 Forming Adverbs with the -ly Suffix
2.5 INTERJECTIONS
2.5.1 What They Are and What They Do
2.5.2 Punctuating Interjections

CHAPTER THREE Closed-Class Words
3.1 PRONOUNS
3.1.1 What They Are and What They Do
3.1.2 Personal Pronouns
3.1.2.1 Choosing the Right Case
• Review & Practice: Personal Pronouns: Subjective/Objective Case
3.1.2.2 Keeping Antecedents Unambiguous
3.1.2.3 Using They and Them as Singular Pronouns
3.1.3 Relative Pronouns
3.1.3.1 Using Who and Whom in Adjective and Noun Clauses
• Review & Practice: Relative Pronouns and Noun Clauses
3.1.3.2 When to Use That, Which, and Who in Adjective Clauses
• Review & Practice: Relative Pronouns: That, Which, Who, Whom
3.1.4 Interrogative Pronouns
3.1.4.1 Whose and Who’s
3.1.4.2 Indirect Questions
• Review & Practice: Interrogative Pronouns: What, Which, Who, Whom, Whose
3.1.5 Indefinite Pronouns
3.1.5.1 Subject-Verb Agreement with Indefinite Pronouns
• Review & Practice: Indefinite Pronouns
3.1.6 Demonstrative Pronouns
3.1.7 Intensive and Reflexive Pronouns
3.1.7.1 Why We Don’t Use Hisself and Theirselves
3.1.7.2 Myself and Me
3.1.8 Possessive Pronouns
3.1.9 Reciprocal Pronouns
3.1.9.1 When to Use Each Other and One Another
• Review & Practice: Classifying Pronouns
3.2 DETERMINERS
3.2.1 What They Are and What They Do
3.2.2 Articles
3.2.2.1 Definite Article
3.2.2.2 Indefinite Article
3.2.2.3 Choosing Between A, An, and Nothing
• Review & Practice: Using Articles
3.2.3 Demonstrative Adjectives
3.2.4 Number Words
3.2.4.1 Number Words or Numerals?
3.2.5 Quantifiers
3.2.5.1 Fewer and Less
• Review & Practice: Using Quantifiers
3.2.6 Possessives
3.2.6.1 Weak Possessive Pronouns
3.2.6.2 When “Possession” Doesn’t Mean Possession
3.2.6.3 Possessive Forms of Nouns
3.3 CONJUNCTIONS
3.3.1 What They Are and What They Do
3.3.2 Coordinating Conjunctions
3.3.2.1 Four Tricky Words
• Review & Practice: Using Coordinating Conjunctions
3.3.3 Subordinating Conjunctions
3.3.3.1 That as a Subordinating Conjunction
• Review & Practice: Using Subordinating Conjunctions
3.3.4 Correlative (Correlating) Conjunctions
3.3.4.1 Parallelism
3.3.4.2 Subject-Verb Agreement
3.3.4.3 Punctuating Sentences with Correlative Conjunctions
• Review & Practice: Using Coordinating and Correlative Conjunctions
3.3.5 Conjunctive Adverbs
3.3.5.1 Punctuation of Conjunctive Adverbs
3.4 PREPOSITIONS
3.4.1 What They Are and What They Do
3.4.2 Simple Prepositions
3.4.2.1 Use Simple Prepositions with Care
• Review & Practice: Using Simple Prepositions
3.4.3 Phrasal (Complex) Prepositions
3.4.3.1 Recognize Complex Prepositions
• Review & Practice: Identifying Phrasal Prepositions

CHAPTER FOUR Verbs and Verbals
4.1 ACTION VERBS
4.1.1 What They Are and What They Do
4.1.2 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
4.1.2.1 Intransitive Verbs
4.1.2.2 Transitive Verbs
4.1.2.3 Direct Objects
4.1.2.4 Indirect Objects
4.1.2.5 Predicate Objectives
4.1.2.6 Ergative Verbs
• Review & Practice: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
4.2 LINKING (STATIVE) VERBS
4.2.1 What They Are and What They Do
4.2.2 Two Types of Linking Verbs
4.2.2.1 True Linking Verbs
4.2.2.2 Occasional Linking Verbs
4.2.3 Subject Complements
4.2.3.1 Predicate Nominatives
4.2.3.2 Predicate Adjectives
• Review & Practice: Action or Linking?
• Review & Practice: Objects and Complements
4.3 AUXILIARY (HELPING) VERBS
4.3.1 What They Are and What They Do
4.3.2 Primary Auxiliary Verbs
4.3.3 Modal Auxiliary Verbs
• Review & Practice: Auxiliary and Main Verbs
4.4 REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS
4.4.1 Understanding the Difference
• Review & Practice: Regular and Irregular Verbs
4.4.2 Lie, Lie, and Lay: A Trio of Troublesome Verbs
• Review & Practice: Lie, Lie, and Lay
4.4.3 Mastering Irregular Verbs
4.5 MAIN VERBS AND VERB PHRASES
4.5.1 What They Are and What They Do
• Review & Practice: Verb Phrases
4.6 VERB TENSES
4.6.1 What They Are and What They Do
4.6.2 Forming and Using Tenses
• Review & Practice: Verb Tenses
4.7 VOICES
4.7.1 What They Are and What They Do
4.7.2 Forming the Passive Voice
4.8 THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD
4.8.1 What It Is and What It Does
4.8.2 Forming the Subjunctive Mood
4.9 VERBALS
4.9.1 What They Are and What They Do
4.9.2 Infinitives
4.9.2.1 Infinitives as Nouns
4.9.2.2 Infinitives as Descriptive Adjectives
4.9.2.3 Infinitives as Adverbs
4.9.3 Past Participles
4.9.3.1 Past Participles as Descriptive Adjectives
4.9.3.2 Past Participles Introducing Adjective Phrases
4.9.4 Present Participles
4.9.4.1 Present Participles as Descriptive Adjectives
4.9.4.2 Present Participles Introducing Adjective Phrases
4.9.4.3 Gerunds (Present Participles as Nouns)
4.9.4.4 Gerunds Introducing Noun Phrases
• Review & Practice: Gerunds
4.9.4.5 Distinguishing Present Participle Functions
• Review & Practice: More Verbals

Roy Terry

A Handbook of Practical Grammar for Public Communications emphasizes both the forms and functions of grammatical elements. The ability to analyze one’s own writing depends, in large measure, upon the ability to identify how a word or word group is functioning. Two similar forms may not be functioning similarly, and the clash of their functions can result in a kind of dissonance; or a word that appears to be one part of speech may just as easily be another, and the author’s ambiguity can leave readers scratching their heads.

A Handbook of Practical Grammar for Public Communications

  • begins with a close look at parts of speech and moves from there to an extensive discussion of verbs and verbals.
  • discusses word groups and their functions, includes a summary of punctuation rules, and concludes by addressing common problems.
  • features a set of appendices with useful information, a collection of published articles, excerpts, and stories for analysis, and a Glossary of Grammatical Terms.
  • is student friendly! Throughout the text, as important terms are used for the first time within each section, they are indicated in green, indicating that they are defined in the Glossary.

CHAPTER ONE Introduction
1.1 WHY STUDY GRAMMAR?
1.2 THIS HANDBOOK AND HOW TO USE IT
1.3 A WORD ABOUT SOURCES AND RESOURCES
1.4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART 1—PARTS OF SPEECH
CHAPTER TWO Open-Class Words
2.1 NOUNS
2.1.1 What They Are and What They Do
2.1.2 Classifying Nouns
2.1.2.1 Common and Proper Nouns
2.1.2.2 Abstract and Concrete Nouns
2.1.2.3 Count(able) and Noncount(able) Nouns
2.1.2.4 Collective Nouns
2.1.2.5 Compound Nouns
 • Review & Practice: Classifying Nouns
2.1.3 Plural Forms of Nouns
2.1.4 Creating New Nouns
2.2 LEXICAL VERBS
2.2.1 What They Are and What They Do
2.2.2 Classifying Lexical Verbs
2.2.3 Phrasal Verbs
2.2.4 Creating New Lexical Verbs
2.3 MODIFIERS: DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
2.3.1 What They Are and What They Do
2.3.2 Classifying Descriptive Adjectives
2.3.2.1 Common and Proper Adjectives
2.3.2.2 Simple and Compound Adjectives
2.3.2.3 Evaluative and Factual Adjectives
2.3.3 Adjectives in Series
2.3.3.1 Coordinate and Noncoordinate Adjectives
2.3.3.2 When Coordinate and Noncoordinate Adjectives Appear Together
2.3.4 Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Adjectives
2.3.4.1 Absolute Adjectives
2.3.4.2 Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives
2.3.5 Creating New Descriptive Adjectives
2.4 MODIFIERS: ADVERBS
2.4.1 What They Are and What They Do
2.4.2 Classifying Adverbs
• Review & Practice: Using the Appropriate Adverb
2.4.2.1 Absolute Phrases as Adverbs
2.4.2.2 Conjunctive Adverbs
2.4.3 Adverb Placement
• Review & Practice: Adverb Placement
2.4.4 Adverbs and Comparison
2.4.4.1 Absolute Adverbs
2.4.4.2 Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adverbs
2.4.5 Relative Adverbs
2.4.6 Forming Adverbs with the -ly Suffix
2.5 INTERJECTIONS
2.5.1 What They Are and What They Do
2.5.2 Punctuating Interjections

CHAPTER THREE Closed-Class Words
3.1 PRONOUNS
3.1.1 What They Are and What They Do
3.1.2 Personal Pronouns
3.1.2.1 Choosing the Right Case
• Review & Practice: Personal Pronouns: Subjective/Objective Case
3.1.2.2 Keeping Antecedents Unambiguous
3.1.2.3 Using They and Them as Singular Pronouns
3.1.3 Relative Pronouns
3.1.3.1 Using Who and Whom in Adjective and Noun Clauses
• Review & Practice: Relative Pronouns and Noun Clauses
3.1.3.2 When to Use That, Which, and Who in Adjective Clauses
• Review & Practice: Relative Pronouns: That, Which, Who, Whom
3.1.4 Interrogative Pronouns
3.1.4.1 Whose and Who’s
3.1.4.2 Indirect Questions
• Review & Practice: Interrogative Pronouns: What, Which, Who, Whom, Whose
3.1.5 Indefinite Pronouns
3.1.5.1 Subject-Verb Agreement with Indefinite Pronouns
• Review & Practice: Indefinite Pronouns
3.1.6 Demonstrative Pronouns
3.1.7 Intensive and Reflexive Pronouns
3.1.7.1 Why We Don’t Use Hisself and Theirselves
3.1.7.2 Myself and Me
3.1.8 Possessive Pronouns
3.1.9 Reciprocal Pronouns
3.1.9.1 When to Use Each Other and One Another
• Review & Practice: Classifying Pronouns
3.2 DETERMINERS
3.2.1 What They Are and What They Do
3.2.2 Articles
3.2.2.1 Definite Article
3.2.2.2 Indefinite Article
3.2.2.3 Choosing Between A, An, and Nothing
• Review & Practice: Using Articles
3.2.3 Demonstrative Adjectives
3.2.4 Number Words
3.2.4.1 Number Words or Numerals?
3.2.5 Quantifiers
3.2.5.1 Fewer and Less
• Review & Practice: Using Quantifiers
3.2.6 Possessives
3.2.6.1 Weak Possessive Pronouns
3.2.6.2 When “Possession” Doesn’t Mean Possession
3.2.6.3 Possessive Forms of Nouns
3.3 CONJUNCTIONS
3.3.1 What They Are and What They Do
3.3.2 Coordinating Conjunctions
3.3.2.1 Four Tricky Words
• Review & Practice: Using Coordinating Conjunctions
3.3.3 Subordinating Conjunctions
3.3.3.1 That as a Subordinating Conjunction
• Review & Practice: Using Subordinating Conjunctions
3.3.4 Correlative (Correlating) Conjunctions
3.3.4.1 Parallelism
3.3.4.2 Subject-Verb Agreement
3.3.4.3 Punctuating Sentences with Correlative Conjunctions
• Review & Practice: Using Coordinating and Correlative Conjunctions
3.3.5 Conjunctive Adverbs
3.3.5.1 Punctuation of Conjunctive Adverbs
3.4 PREPOSITIONS
3.4.1 What They Are and What They Do
3.4.2 Simple Prepositions
3.4.2.1 Use Simple Prepositions with Care
• Review & Practice: Using Simple Prepositions
3.4.3 Phrasal (Complex) Prepositions
3.4.3.1 Recognize Complex Prepositions
• Review & Practice: Identifying Phrasal Prepositions

CHAPTER FOUR Verbs and Verbals
4.1 ACTION VERBS
4.1.1 What They Are and What They Do
4.1.2 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
4.1.2.1 Intransitive Verbs
4.1.2.2 Transitive Verbs
4.1.2.3 Direct Objects
4.1.2.4 Indirect Objects
4.1.2.5 Predicate Objectives
4.1.2.6 Ergative Verbs
• Review & Practice: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
4.2 LINKING (STATIVE) VERBS
4.2.1 What They Are and What They Do
4.2.2 Two Types of Linking Verbs
4.2.2.1 True Linking Verbs
4.2.2.2 Occasional Linking Verbs
4.2.3 Subject Complements
4.2.3.1 Predicate Nominatives
4.2.3.2 Predicate Adjectives
• Review & Practice: Action or Linking?
• Review & Practice: Objects and Complements
4.3 AUXILIARY (HELPING) VERBS
4.3.1 What They Are and What They Do
4.3.2 Primary Auxiliary Verbs
4.3.3 Modal Auxiliary Verbs
• Review & Practice: Auxiliary and Main Verbs
4.4 REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS
4.4.1 Understanding the Difference
• Review & Practice: Regular and Irregular Verbs
4.4.2 Lie, Lie, and Lay: A Trio of Troublesome Verbs
• Review & Practice: Lie, Lie, and Lay
4.4.3 Mastering Irregular Verbs
4.5 MAIN VERBS AND VERB PHRASES
4.5.1 What They Are and What They Do
• Review & Practice: Verb Phrases
4.6 VERB TENSES
4.6.1 What They Are and What They Do
4.6.2 Forming and Using Tenses
• Review & Practice: Verb Tenses
4.7 VOICES
4.7.1 What They Are and What They Do
4.7.2 Forming the Passive Voice
4.8 THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD
4.8.1 What It Is and What It Does
4.8.2 Forming the Subjunctive Mood
4.9 VERBALS
4.9.1 What They Are and What They Do
4.9.2 Infinitives
4.9.2.1 Infinitives as Nouns
4.9.2.2 Infinitives as Descriptive Adjectives
4.9.2.3 Infinitives as Adverbs
4.9.3 Past Participles
4.9.3.1 Past Participles as Descriptive Adjectives
4.9.3.2 Past Participles Introducing Adjective Phrases
4.9.4 Present Participles
4.9.4.1 Present Participles as Descriptive Adjectives
4.9.4.2 Present Participles Introducing Adjective Phrases
4.9.4.3 Gerunds (Present Participles as Nouns)
4.9.4.4 Gerunds Introducing Noun Phrases
• Review & Practice: Gerunds
4.9.4.5 Distinguishing Present Participle Functions
• Review & Practice: More Verbals

Roy Terry
Roy Terry