Our Mother Tongue: An Introductory Guide to English Grammar
by Nancy Wilson Author
(From Amazon): The importance of the spoken and written word in Christian culture cannot be overestimated. In this English grammar guide, Nancy Wilson surveys the major concepts in English grammar for beginners at the late elementary and junior high level (even adults seeking a brush-up). Wilson avoids common, contrived sentences that serve merely to illustrate her point; instead, she uses many selections from Scripture and from great English writers which help to instruct the student through their content, style, and structure. In addition to a helpful format that highlights key definitions, punctuation issues, and important concepts, short historical sidebars tell the facinating story of the development of English. She continues the traditional and challenging exercise of sentence diagramming, which trains students to quickly ananlyze the structure of any given sentence. The grammatical explanations, the logic of diagrams, and the rhetoric of her examples blend with complementary emphases to create a helpful classical and Christian text.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9781591280118
- Print Status
- In Print
- Lessons
- 49
- Pages
- 183
- Publisher
- Canon Press
- Copyright
- 2004
Lessons
- 1 Nouns
- 2 Verbs
- 3 Adjectives
- 4 Adverbs
- 5 Pronouns
- 6 Prepositions
- 7 Conjunctions
- 8 Interjections
- 9 Review
- 10 Kinds of Sentences
- 11 The Subject
- 12 The Predicate
- 13 The Subject Modified by an Adjective
- 14 The Subject Modified by a Possessive Noun
- 15 The Subject Modified by an Appositive
- 16 The Subject Modified by an Adjective Phrase
- 17 The Subject Modified by an Adjective Clause
- 18 The Predicate Modified by an Adverb
- 19 The Predicate Modified by an Adverb Phrase
- 20 The Predicate Modified by an Adverb Clause
- 21 The Predicate with a Direct Object
- 22 The Predicate with an Indirect Object
- 23 The Predicate with a Predicate Nominative
- 24 The Predicate with a Predicate Adjective
- 25 The Noun Clause
- 26 Sentence Structure
- 27 Review
- 28 Types of Nouns
- 29 Number: Singular and Plural
- 30 Gender
- 31 Case: Nominative, Objective, and Possessive
- 32 The Declension of a Noun
- 33 The Personal Pronoun: Gender, Person, Number, and Case
- 34 Who, Whom, and Whos
- 35 Other Pronouns
- 36 Pronoun Agreement
- 37 Review
- 38 Principal Parts of a Verb
- 39 The Conjugation of Verbs
- 40 Active and Passive Voice
- 41 Mood
- 42 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
- 43 Agreement of Subject and Verb
- 44 Review
- 45 Participles
- 46 Gerunds
- 47 Infinitives
- 48 Adjectives and Adverbs, Comparative and Superlative
- 49 Dangling or Misplaced Modifiers
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