Collins English Grammar and Composition is a carefully graded series spanning eight levels, which aims to enable learners to master the rules of the English language so that they can use it with ease.
Turn the wheels, lift the flaps, and pull the tabs to get the lowdown about parts of speech, punctuation, and sentences. Want to turn grammar into a game? Name the pictures to get a handle on nouns. Spin a wheel to see verbs in action. Flip some flaps and put a few adjectives to work, creating some silly characters in the process. And what do pronouns have to do with looking in a mirror — or prepositions with walking a dog through a pop-up park? There’s nothing fusty about learning the basics of grammar with this jam-packed fun house of a lesson book, republished with a colorful new cover.
Updated and expanded, this book fills a double purpose as both a useful classroom text and a practical style manual for writers. It reviews English grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, and correct word usage, and advises on adapting writing style to different formats, including both classroom assignments, business documents, and electronic communication. Readers will also find detailed instruction on essay writing, starting with outlining a subject, and going on to writing a draft and then editing and polishing it into a finished composition. New in this edition is a sample research paper that uses online sources and follows the widely popular MLA style for footnotes.
A concise guide to grammar, usage and style. Includes appendices on irregular verbs, verb-preposition combinations, commonly confused words, and misspelled words.
The book has been divided into three sections: * Sec 1 deals with Grammar and Usages. It include all the important constituents of Grammar like sentence construction, Part of speech , tenses, Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjective, Phrases, Clauses, Transformation and Synthesis of Sentence, Structures, Voice and Speech.Usage has been discussed in detail giving suitable Example and Exercises for Practice.* Sec 2 deals with English Vocabulary. In order to provide a reasonable rang of words. there has been an emphasis on important aspects like essential Vocabulary, Word Formation, Word Substitutes, Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms, Expressive Words, Order of Words, Spelling Rules and appropriate Comparisons. Examples have been provided alongwith Practice Exercise.* Sec 3 deals with Composition, Reading Tests and Writing Skills. The Comprehensive of various types of passages, the writing of different types of short composition like reports notices, invitations, replies, letters, articles have been given. Abstractions, paraphrasing, note making and appreciation of poetry have been provided to the perfect writing skills of the readers.