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