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Reel Grammar: A Student's Guide to Word, Phrase, and Clause Construction

Reel Grammar: A Student's Guide to Word, Phrase, and Clause Construction

Author(s): Todd Scott Moffett

Edition: 3

Copyright: 2014

Pages: 200

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Reel Grammar: A Student's Guide to Word, Phrase, and Clause Construction serves the reader as a trusted guide into the world of words. The comprehensive guide introduces the reader to words and their functions, shows how to put words together into phrases, and demonstrates how to create clauses.

Available in an affordable and convenient eBook format, Reel Grammar:

  • Features interactive electronic exercises at the ends of almost all the chapters, and at the ends of some of the subchapters, give students immediate practice with the concepts.
  • Includes additional exercises are activities at the end of the book that can stand alone or supplement instruction in traditional grammar.
  • Presents new material on thematic relations, event schemas, and performative verbs.


Readers of Reel Grammar: A Student's Guide to Word, Phrase, and Clause Construction will have mastery over phrases and clauses along with the confidence to use them to improve their lives!

Part One: Word Categories
1.1 Place and Time Words
1.2 People and Thing Words
1.3 Number and Measure Words
1.4 Quality, Context, and Manner Words
1.5 Action and Status Words
1.6 Noun, Verb, and Modifier
1.7 Connect Words
1.8 Question and Shout Words
1.9 Function Words

Part Two : Phrase Categories
2.1 The Prepositional Phrase
2.2 The Noun Phrase
2.3 The Verbal Phrase
2.4 The Predicate Phrase
2.5 The Absolute Phrase

Part Three: Clause Categories
3.1 Complete, Full, and Implied Clauses
3.2 Full Clauses 1: Noun Clauses
3.3 Full Clauses 2: Relative Clauses
3.4 Full Clauses 3: Adverbial Clauses

Glossary of Terms
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Exercises

Todd Scott Moffett

Todd Scott Moffett received his MFA in creative writing (fiction) from Eastern Washington University in 1989 and his BA in English from University of California, Irvine, in 1985. After working as a story editor for a production company in Hollywood and as a part-time instructor of English at Spokane Community College and UNLV, he managed the Writing Center at the College of Southern Nevada for eleven years and transitioned to a professorship in the English Department, where he has taught composition, creative writing, and literature since 2005. He has coedited a collection of short stories, In the Shadow of the Strip, and two composition textbooks, Red Rock Reader and Anatomy of an Essay. He has cowritten The Everything Writing Poetry Book, and written a grammar textbook, Reel Grammar. He has also published a number of poems, short stories, and journal articles, three of the latter being studies of character archetypes in literature. He has also self-published a number of fantasy novels and a series of fantasy baseball yearbooks. Originally from California, he currently lives in the desert southwest with his wife, Tina.

Reel Grammar: A Student's Guide to Word, Phrase, and Clause Construction serves the reader as a trusted guide into the world of words. The comprehensive guide introduces the reader to words and their functions, shows how to put words together into phrases, and demonstrates how to create clauses.

Available in an affordable and convenient eBook format, Reel Grammar:

  • Features interactive electronic exercises at the ends of almost all the chapters, and at the ends of some of the subchapters, give students immediate practice with the concepts.
  • Includes additional exercises are activities at the end of the book that can stand alone or supplement instruction in traditional grammar.
  • Presents new material on thematic relations, event schemas, and performative verbs.


Readers of Reel Grammar: A Student's Guide to Word, Phrase, and Clause Construction will have mastery over phrases and clauses along with the confidence to use them to improve their lives!

Part One: Word Categories
1.1 Place and Time Words
1.2 People and Thing Words
1.3 Number and Measure Words
1.4 Quality, Context, and Manner Words
1.5 Action and Status Words
1.6 Noun, Verb, and Modifier
1.7 Connect Words
1.8 Question and Shout Words
1.9 Function Words

Part Two : Phrase Categories
2.1 The Prepositional Phrase
2.2 The Noun Phrase
2.3 The Verbal Phrase
2.4 The Predicate Phrase
2.5 The Absolute Phrase

Part Three: Clause Categories
3.1 Complete, Full, and Implied Clauses
3.2 Full Clauses 1: Noun Clauses
3.3 Full Clauses 2: Relative Clauses
3.4 Full Clauses 3: Adverbial Clauses

Glossary of Terms
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Exercises

Todd Scott Moffett
Todd Scott Moffett

Todd Scott Moffett received his MFA in creative writing (fiction) from Eastern Washington University in 1989 and his BA in English from University of California, Irvine, in 1985. After working as a story editor for a production company in Hollywood and as a part-time instructor of English at Spokane Community College and UNLV, he managed the Writing Center at the College of Southern Nevada for eleven years and transitioned to a professorship in the English Department, where he has taught composition, creative writing, and literature since 2005. He has coedited a collection of short stories, In the Shadow of the Strip, and two composition textbooks, Red Rock Reader and Anatomy of an Essay. He has cowritten The Everything Writing Poetry Book, and written a grammar textbook, Reel Grammar. He has also published a number of poems, short stories, and journal articles, three of the latter being studies of character archetypes in literature. He has also self-published a number of fantasy novels and a series of fantasy baseball yearbooks. Originally from California, he currently lives in the desert southwest with his wife, Tina.