Thinking Through Grammar

Chapters

• 1 A Basic Sentence: Subject, Action Verb, Object
• 2 Subject-Verb Agreement in Number
• 3 Creating Past Tense Verbs
• 4 Irregular Verbs
• 5 Intransitive Verbs
• 6 Stative Verbs: Verbs Expressing Mental States and Various Relationships
• 7 Using Will to Write About the Future
• 8 Special People (You and I) Require Special Verb Patterns
• 9 A Special Family of Verbs: Is, Was, Are, and Were
• 10 Writing About the Future: The Base Form Be
• 11 The Present Progressive Tense With a Singular Subject
• 12 The Present Progressive Tense With a Plural Subject
• 13 The Past Progressive Tense
• 14 Special People (You and I) With the Be Verbs
• 15 Nouns
• 16 Proper Nouns
• 17 Possessive Forms of Nouns
• 18 Adding Adjectives to Sentences
• 19 Modifying One Noun With Two Adjectives
• 20 Modifying a Noun With Another Noun
• 21 Placing Two Adjectives After the Noun They Modify
• 22 Expressing Comparisons With Adjectives
• 23 Adverbs That Describe an Action and End in -Ly
• 24 Moving Adverbs
• 25 Adverbs Modifying Adjectives
• 26 Other Types of Adverbs
• 27 Prepositions: Using Prepositional Phrases to Modify Nouns
• 28 Prepositional Phrases That Provide Information About Actions and Events
• 29 Prepositional Phrases at the Beginnings of Sentences
• 30 Prepositional Phrases That Modify Objects in Other Prepositional Phrases
• 31 Subject-Verb Agreement With an Intervening Prepositional Phrase
• 32 Coordinating Conjunctions: Joining Entire Sentences
• 33 Using And to Join the Subjects of Sentences With Identical Predicates
• 34 Using And to Combine Sentences With Identical Subjects But Different Predicates
• 35 Using Or to Combine Sentences With Different Subjects But Identical Predicates
• 36 Using Or to Combine Sentences With Identical Subjects But Different Predicates
• 37 Using But to Combine Sentences That Are Partly Identical and Partly Different
• 38 Using And to Combine Three Sentences That Are Partly the Same and Partly Different
• 39 Combining Sentences With Expressions Such as In Addition To and As Well As